I hate glazer. He always brings out anti pata insights. Even the jets tripping incident, he got atape showing the pats do it too.
There's a pretty big difference between what the Jets did and what Glazer claims the Patriots did, but that didn't stop him from making the comparison.
There are rules about who can be on the sideline area closest to the field. Having the strength & conditioning coach and practice squad players there is against the rules, having them trip an opposing player is far worse. They were there because someone on the Jets staff, probably Mike Westhoff, dreamed up a way to impede gunners who run out of bounds to avoid being blocked.
Glazer claims,
based on this article, that the Patriots players were forming the same "wall." The Patriots offensive players can be in that area of the sideline. They are there because they are about to take the field. There's a video at the end of that article, but the quality is terrible. From what I recall, the player who stuck his foot out was Hochstein.
That's a jerk move by Hochstein, but it's closer to
what Tyler Brayton did than an organized formation, like the Jets. Also, unlike either of those two incidents, no one on the Patriots tripped or hit anyone.
Also, it wasn't really a surprise, but Glazer dug around or was directed to find this play. He didn't put in the safe effort a couple years earlier to find out if any team suspected their signals were being taped by a non-Patriots opponent.
