The all-encompassing camera-gate quote thread

Atlanta coach:

Most teams don't hire someone to illicitly videotape the opposing team's coaching signals — like the Patriots did last Sunday against the New York Jets — but trying to decipher codes, cadences and signals are very much a part of the sport, they said.

"It's not something that hasn't happened before," said Petrino, who shields his face with his laminated play sheet to avoid lip readers when he calls plays to quarterback Joey Harrington from his headset. "I don't know to this extent."

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"I'll put it this way: That's not the only team that has ever done that," one head coach said yesterday. "It's a bunch of nothing. That stuff goes on everywhere. It ain't like it's something new. Are you kidding me? Half the teams do that crap. We've never done it here, but I've been involved in staffs that have done it."

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