It gets brought up here all the time but you see line coaches in baseball running through complicated signs for a reason; catchers switch up signs when a man is on 2nd for a reason. Hell, the Blue Jays have been accused a number of times for using their outfield camera in-game to steal signs, I'm not seeing any congressional investigations into those dirty, cheating Canadians.
Gamesmanship...but no, stealing signals in the NFL is all of a sudden sacrilege despite reams of evidence and history that shows teams have been doing it as far back as people can remember. Shanahan, Cowher, Schottenheimer, JJ, each one of them has said they've done it (and videotaped it) and other teams did it, yet their contemporary Bill Belichick is the only one to have done it? What kind of madness is that? The ESPN article spoke in breathless terms as though Belichick was the evil mastermind of a new way to spy on teams. WHAT???
I've said before and I'll say again: Mangini, that rat, stepped over the line and opened a can of worms he wished he hadn't. Goodell, complete dunce that he is, thought his best approach was to level massive penalties then destroy all evidence as though that would appease the blood-thirsty fans and owners of 31 teams. Rather than control the message being trumpeted on high by ESPN he thought it'd disappear with a big penalty, what it actually did was made people even more curious about what was on those tapes to warrant such penalties, when in actuality it was just signals matched with plays to better help them decode the defense, which has been done since the beginning of time.
What a crock of sh*t that this has popped up again. I hope the Pats absolutely smash the Steelers, I want everyone to fear the week they have to face the pissed of Patriots.
