STEELERS PRIVATELY COMPLAIN ABOUT CHEATING IN CLEVELAND
Posted by Mike Florio on September 14, 2008, 12:45 p.m.
Ed Bouchette of the
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that members of the Steelers have complained about possible shenanigans in Cleveland.
Writes Bouchette: “Steelers players say privately that whenever they play in Cleveland, they
almost always have problems with the communicator in the quarterback’s helmet.”
If anything fishy is going on, the Browns would be wise to cut it out. Now. Charley Casserly of CBS reported earlier in the hour that the NFL has employed former CIA agents to sniff out disruptions in the coach-to-player audio system, the presence of microphones on players, and the use of a system for bypassing the automatic cutoff of the audio system with 15 seconds on the play clock.
It’s a good move by the league, but it’s overdue. With no process in place to detect violations of the rules, violations will happen.
