So we have yet to see what's on the tape. Time will tell. One oddity I see with this story though is that if the Pats videographer was just mindlessly filming with no ill intent, why was it only focused on the Bengals sideline? No footage was shot of the team they had already played, but the team they haven't played yet was arbitrarily caught on film by a guy that wasn't aware of the rules. Seems strange, no? If the cameraman was so oblivious of the rules and whom he was filming, but his entire shot was on a team that they're playing next week.
Honestly, without knowing how long the video they confiscated actually is, I genuinely believe it's a case of a video guy being an oblivious idiot.
Think about it. They are doing an expose on an advance scout. I can see exactly how this would've been edited. Interview with advanced scout talking about whatever he's talking about regarding the Bengals, cut to a shot of Bengals sideline doing stuff and a play happening, cut back to advanced scout writing/typing stuff down.
For a sequence like that, you'd be taping the sideline exclusively for a bit to use footage in the editing room.
If the video they turned over to the NFL is an entire games length of video, and only 8 minutes of 3+ hours is sideline? Pretty obvious what happened.