Just as the New England Patriots appeared to have gotten some closure from the deflate-gate controversy when a judge overturned Tom Brady's four-game suspension, ESPN's "Outside The Lines" released a lengthy report Tuesday covering the Patriots and the NFL from spy-gate until deflate-gate, as well as how commissioner Roger Goodell handled the two controversial incidents.

As noted by CBSSports.com, as part of that report written by Don Van Natta and Seth Wickersham, "Outside The Lines" says the Patriots recorded 40 games of opponents from 2000 through 2007.

CBSSports.com points out that the figure is in stark contrast to what Goodell said before the Super Bowl back in February 2008.

"I believe there were six tapes," the commissioner said. "And I believe some were from the preseason in 2007, and the rest were primarily in the late 2006 season."

According to the CBSSports.com report, "Outside The Lines" also acquired notes made by the late US Senator Arlen Spector during his February 2008 meeting with Goodell where he scribbled, "No valid reason to destroy" regarding the Patriots tapes. Those tapes, according to "Outside The Lines" were "stomped into pieces by league executives" not long after they were found in Gillette Stadium.

The report states that inside a room accessible only to Bill Belichick and a select few, a library of scouting material including video tapes of opponents signals, with detailed notes matching signals to plays for many teams going back seven seasons were found. Among the notes found were those used in the 2002 AFC Championship Game won by the Patriots 24-17.

CBSSports.com notes that at least one NFL owner told ESPN he believed that deflate-gate penalties were a "makeup call" for what happened with spy-gate. Goodell also appeared on ESPN radio Tuesday morning, and was quoted saying "he's very open to changing his role in discipline." The Patriots are reportedly not thrilled about the "Outside The Lines" report.