Hardboiled
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He asked a point blank question to an NFL spokesman:
"...if a team was taping from a location enclosed on all sides, it still can not shoot signals of opposing coaches?"
The response from the unnamed NFL spokesman? "That is correct. You can scout opposing team signals but not with a video camera."
This, in my opinion (and its not really opinion if one reads the rule) is completely contrary to what the NFL has said in their rule, as well as their 2006 clarifying memo.
I agree and find that part of the problem. I wished Reiss asked if there is some citation or just unwritten "policy"
Even with a spokesman's comment, are NFL teams supposed to ignore the rules in the rulebook and base their practices on the statements of spokesmen to the media?
Of course not.
Yet that is similar to the Greg Aiello explanation of the Jets' taping. He use the word typicially to describe where teams tape from, which I thought was strange as the Jets were taping from the Mezz.
So to be clear here, Reiss is correctly conveying what the NFL spokesman told him.
But he did use the rule as his source. And I would fault him for not asking the questions we are. I would have asked the NFL spokeman where is that view written? What memo, manual or rule addresses it.
It shouldn't be that hard to back it up and communicate clearly other than "Because we said so."
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