Bruins_Skins

The Redskins communications system did not work last week at Gillete. Not that it made any difference in that game, but it's not like the Pats have clean hands.

Gumby

I am not sure exactly how 1 team's Coach-QB system has anything to do with the HOST team's stadium.

It is not like we went to the Dolts on Saturday afternoon and said; here is Brady's helmet can you please install your electronics into it.

I think the transmitter and receiver have to be TEAM EQUIPMENT; it doesnt make sense any other way. That explains the press box to sideline rule too.

The pressbox equipment has to be stadium equipment. So if it goes out that is the Host's fault.

But unless the Dolts are running some electronic psyops jamming station on the Patriots QB system frequency - any electronic fault has to be our own equipment failure.

Considering how Brady got his bell rung on the very first play and as often as he HEAD-BUTTs the OL ; I am not surprised if the electronics get a little bit fritzy.

reflexblue

There was a rule, and it may still be on th books that if the home crowd noise interferes with the opposing teams ability to communicate the home team can be hit with a penalty's up forfiture of the game. It was put in place in the late eighties and enforced for a couple of years at most .Then the refs. stop calling it. It's sort of along the lines of the no contact with the reciever rule that wasn't enforced until Polian couldn't beat us and got teh CC to make it a point of emphasis a couple of years ago, Wouldn't that be sweet if the "excesive crowd noise" rule was still on the books and used against Indy at home.

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JohnVM

http://www.boston.com/sports/footbal...ificial_noise/

So, the Colts:
- Made the stadium mad hot
- Piped in artificial crowd noise
- Disabled our coach-to-qb communication so we had to signal in plays and they could steal them
- Chose the reffs they wanted, then subsequently paid them off

and we still won.

Really though, during spygate a lot of other teams used the "When we go to foxborough we have this coach-to-qb communication failure. Clearly it's a sign of cheating." Well, if they want to call it cheating when it happens in foxborough, it should be called cheating when it happens in Indy too -- unless its not cheating, and is just a technical glitch, like it probably is, which shows how one-sided the world is against the Patriots right now when whenever it happens in Patsland they scream cheating and then don't bat an eye when it happens in Indy.

Deus Irae

Washington had headset problems when they played the Patriots. Not everything is a conspiracy and not everything is a result of a deliberate act.

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JohnVM

That's exactly my point -- that during spygate people dug up all these tiny issues claiming that we were evil masterminds behind all of them, and when they happen for any other team nobody bats an eye. The media slings so much mud at the Pats its unreal.

PATRIOT64

Correct,I was about to say that like you just did.

We have guys here who are complaining about it but if it were in New England instead of Indy no one here would say anything negative - get a grip

I didn't see complaining posts when Washington had problems last week so just (Please be quiet - edited) - WE WON AND MOVE ON!!!

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nowayback

what bothers me more is that if that happened in foxboro...we would be hearing nothing else from espn and fox

Deus Irae

It happened to Washington when they played against the Patriots in Foxborough and it was not something that got blown up into a huge "spygate" type of situation.

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nowayback

true Deus . although the pats theme of that week was "running up" the score.