FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — On the eve of their Saturday night wild-card playoff game against the Titans at Gillette Stadium, reports surfaced that the Patriots are facing discipline for filming the Bengals sideline on Dec. 8.

The NFL Network had reported the league had determined the Patriots committed a game-day violation and were expected to be penalized for it.

However, the NFL said in a statement later in the day, “The investigation is ongoing and there has been no discussion of any potential discipline. Any suggestion of potential discipline or a timeline on an announcement is pure speculation.”

The Patriots said last month the organization’s video crew, which is independent of the team’s football organization, “inappropriately filmed the field from the press box” for a “Do Your Job” video series on an advance scout.

“The sole purpose of the filming was to provide an illustration of an advance scout at work on the road,” a Patriots statement said at the time. “There was no intention of using footage for any other purpose.”

New England coach Bill Belichick has maintained he had no connection to the production crew at the Bengals game.

“I heard about this and evidently this is our production people on the TV show that were there and I have absolutely nothing to do, we have absolutely nothing to do with anything that they produce or direct or shoot,” he said.

“I have never even seen any of their tapes or anything else. This is something that we 100 percent have zero involvement with. This is something you’d have to talk to the production people about and what they were doing, or whatever it was. We have never seen anything that they’ve shot, other than what has come down on TV.”

According to ESPN, the discipline from the league is likely to come in the next two weeks, but not all security reports are back to the NFL yet.

In 2007, the Patriots were punished by the NFL for videotaping the Jets’ defensive play calls on the sideline during a 2007 game at Giants Stadium won by New England, 38-14. The Patriots were forced by the league to forfeit their first-round draft pick in 2008, Belichick was fined the maximum amount of $500,000 and the Patriots were ordered to pay $250,000 for the “Spygate’’ scandal.