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How is this different? I have no idea, perhaps the fact that they paid for it makes it okay. As to your other point...I don't think anyone knows what the competitive advantage is, but it is hard to imagine that this was an isolated incident, and if rather than studying film on formations and blitz schemes etc, the players are just studying the signals, I think it would cause a competitive advantage.
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What if you hired someone with a photographic memory? Or even someone who watched the opposite sideline and wrote down all the signals they saw? Seems like the exact same thing as videotaping to me, but if I understand right, using a human is clearly within the rules. |
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I think the rules are mucked up on this matter...although Goodell did send out a memo before the season about it...I suspect we'll see changes from the competition committe this off season.
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If you write down the exact times of the play calls you observed and then synced it up to the game film, you could do exactly that. I don't think there's any distinction other than that machines are more efficient than us and make less mistakes. |
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That's true, but video taping is easier and requires less effort.
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I think it's naive to believe that no other teams were doing this. In fact, is it crazy to think that it's because Mangini worked with Belichik that he knew what to report, and the best time to report it? How many other coaches have come off of the Bellicheck tree? If this has been going on for a while then there are likely several coaches around the league who know what's going on and haven't said anything about it. In fact, almost NO coaches have been whining about it. Makes me think that it goes on quite a bit more than anyone wants to believe. My guess is that there are a lot of coaches grateful that they weren't caught and that everyone has kept pretty quiet about it.
I was watching "NFL's Greatest Games" last night and they were showing 1998's Niners vs Packers. Favre was being interviewed and he talked about how they'd played each other so many times, that they each knew each other's signals by heart. The last Packer TD was a direct result of Favre calling a dummy audible because he knew the safety would try to jump the fake route. I think the seriousness of the signal stealing has been overblown. I think it's been going on a while, and I think a lot of coaches are hoping the topic just fades away because they know a little too much. |
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