TheBostonStraggler
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This.
The facts remain, while what the Pats did was against the rules and we were rightfully fined and penalized, the actual info that was gained was alternate angles of what you are still allowed to tape to this day, just not from the field. You have to record it from the endzones or coaches box. King knew this and never did squat to tell it like it is. It was Al Michaels of all people on the following MNF vs. the Chargers who pointed this out.
BB trying to pick up information from the visitor's locker room??? I'll buy that (to the extent of using electronic bugs? Don't know about that). Picking up information/trying to get an edge by many different means has probably been going on as far back as when the Titanic was believed unsinkable. One thing fair to say about BB is he will go to great extents to gain an edge. Bravo to that! Your DC flaps his arms 3 times means a corner blitz? I want to know that. The MLB has a knee that tightens up in 40 degrees or below? I want to know that. Your QB has a weakness for an Asian woman in a white ****tail dress and will stay out all night having drinks with her? I want to know that. As far as I am concerned everything is fair game short of paying off the refs or trying to intentionally hurt a player. For the opposing team, if you are not going to great lengths to guard your plans, weaknesses etc etc, you have no business being in charge of that team. If a coach utters the words, "they knew what we were going to do because they were watching our hand signals", you have really said "I'm incompetent and have no business being in charge of a team".
To the extent a team, like BB's Patriots, crosses the line on the rules and gets smacked down for it (as happened)? That's the price that is paid for trying to gain an edge. Much like circumventing the cap or using the stadium PA for noise....to tampering with FA's.....to teaching OL how to hold the pass rusher while obscuring it from the refs.....to players faking injuries to get a timeout....to having a front office informer on another team. Nothing but dancing in and around the lines of the rules to gain an edge. Or put another way 'Game on'.