Originally posted by JBA
Hay Sixpence, go sox!
I guess we could say it's a "rules violation".
I'm beginning to think nothing will come of this, once it becomes know how prolific this "type" of thing is in the NFL.
I read that Miami, purchased the TV audio of a PAT's game so they could listen to Brady's calls, an hence get an “edge” on his cadence and check downs, they went on to kick the Pat's Arse the next game. Cheating? Ya probable or at least a “rules violation”
Like a flagrant foul in the NBA.
This is going to expose the rules the NFL has put in place to give the offense an unfair advantage.
Rules allow for the QB and coaches to communicate via wireless in the QB's helmet, but the defense cannot. The defense must use signals. Why would they do this?
To give the offense an advantage. The rules are setup so the offense can see what the defense is doing and relay that to the QB.
How do you steal a signal that is being done in front of seventy thousand people? The defense has three people sending in signals, two are decoys, and they switch during the game so you can't pick up on who the decoys are. Why? Because they
know they are being watched and filmed.
Every team has a person(s) filming the other teams defensive signals. The Pats got caught because Mangini knew who did it for them and set them up to be caught long before the game started.
For the past two years, a rule to let the defensive captain have a wireless in his helmet like the QB has been defeated because offensive coaches have the votes to defeat the rule, they want that unfair advantage. They want to be able to figure out the defensive signals and get them to their QB.
If the defense were allowed to communicate via wireless like the offense, there would be no need for signals, and the offense would lose their unfair advantage to 'cheat'
Bill Belichick is a smart man, and everything he does is calculated. Any bets that the rule to allow the defense to communicate via wireless gets passed next year?
