Patriots Spygate

[NUance]

Report: Patriots' Spygate scandal was bigger in scope than first realized
By Frank Schwab 7 hours ago Shutdown Corner

As it turns out, Spygate had a larger scope than we realized.
ESPN had a huge story on Tuesday, saying when the league investigated the New England Patriots in 2007 they were found to have "a library of scouting material containing videotapes of opponents' signals, with detailed notes matching signals to plays for many teams going back seven seasons." There were 40 games worth of tapes, ESPN said.

The tapes and notes were found, and then destroyed on commissioner Roger Goodell's orders: league executives "stomped the tapes into pieces and shredded the papers inside a Gillette Stadium conference room," the ESPN story said
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The Patriots filmed other teams' offensive signals, studied them, and then used them against the other teams to get an edge. I realize this seems sort of underhanded. But is that even cheating? I'd bet dollars to donuts that the Pats aren't the only team to do this. (Not that that makes it right.)

If teams were concerned about this, why wouldn't they simply change up their signals to take advantage of the intercepted signals? Seems like it wouldn't be too hard to turn the tables on a team relying on intercepted signals.

 

[True2tRA]

If teams were concerned about this, why wouldn't they simply change up their signals to take advantage of the intercepted signals? Seems like it wouldn't be too hard to turn the tables on a team relying on intercepted signals.

Hmmm, I guess I would think that might be kind of a difficult thing to do.....I don't really know. Changing all your signals up for one game against the Patriots could be tricky.

I have a better idea.

STOP f'ing CHEATING NEW ENGLAND DOUSCHEBAGS!

 

[Branno]

I'm done with NE. At this point I don't care what they do. Every win in the Belichek era has an asterisk.