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Post by BadCompany on Sept 21, 2015 8:11:10 GMT -5
First game of the season, and the Pats at it again. Steelers sideline wasn't able to communicate through supplied headsets for the entire first half. All the could do was listen to the Patriots radio broadcast. The Pats are pretty much untouchable now. Not that they weren't beforehand, but even moreso now. What's Goodell going to do? Suspend Brady and/or Belichik again? Deflategate was a total disaster for him (mostly of his own doing), and worse still, it managed to make him look bad in PREVIOUS Pats scandals that were supposed to be long dead, like Spygate. He can't go after them again, because if he does everyone will just look at his record with every other cheating scandal and wonder how badly he's going to screw this one up. The Cheatriots have carte blanche now, if you ask me. |
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Post by blny on Sept 21, 2015 8:19:45 GMT -5
First game of the season, and the Pats at it again. Steelers sideline wasn't able to communicate through supplied headsets for the entire first half. All the could do was listen to the Patriots radio broadcast. The Pats are pretty much untouchable now. Not that they weren't beforehand, but even moreso now. What's Goodell going to do? Suspend Brady and/or Belichik again? Deflategate was a total disaster for him (mostly of his own doing), and worse still, it managed to make him look bad in PREVIOUS Pats scandals that were supposed to be long dead, like Spygate. He can't go after them again, because if he does everyone will just look at his record with every other cheating scandal and wonder how badly he's going to screw this one up. The Cheatriots have carte blanche now, if you ask me. Every time they get away with something, they only get more and more untouchable. You know they're collectively laughing at the league behind closed doors. So are their fans. |
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Sept 21, 2015 9:49:45 GMT -5
The Pats are pretty much untouchable now. Not that they weren't beforehand, but even moreso now. What's Goodell going to do? Suspend Brady and/or Belichik again? Deflategate was a total disaster for him (mostly of his own doing), and worse still, it managed to make him look bad in PREVIOUS Pats scandals that were supposed to be long dead, like Spygate. He can't go after them again, because if he does everyone will just look at his record with every other cheating scandal and wonder how badly he's going to screw this one up. The Cheatriots have carte blanche now, if you ask me. Every time they get away with something, they only get more and more untouchable. You know they're collectively laughing at the league behind closed doors. So are their fans. I just shake my head ... when the Patriots were caught 'spying' on other teams, they lost their 1st-round draft pick for that year ... they also started running up the score on everyone they faced ... you know, being out front by a wide margin with less than 30 seconds to go and scoring a major from inside the five yard line just to rub it in ... I saw what they did to Buffalo yesterday and it wouldn't surprise me in the least if they started the same thing again this year ... Cheers. |
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Post by franko on Sept 21, 2015 10:52:53 GMT -5
I saw what they did to Buffalo yesterday and it wouldn't surprise me in the least if they started the same thing again this year ... what did they do to Buffalo, Dis? They barely held on for the win. while I'm not a proponent for running up the score, things are so wide open that most teams can make a comeback. well, a couple teams, anyway. |
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Sept 21, 2015 11:35:04 GMT -5
I saw what they did to Buffalo yesterday and it wouldn't surprise me in the least if they started the same thing again this year ... what did they do to Buffalo, Dis? They barely held on for the win. while I'm not a proponent for running up the score, things are so wide open that most teams can make a comeback. well, a couple teams, anyway. They let the Bills in the game when they were running away with it, I guess ... poor example, okay ... I'll be watching for the Pats to run up the score, anyway ... if it doesn't happen, oh well ... I won't lose sleep over it ... Cheers la ... |
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Post by jkr on Sept 21, 2015 11:58:26 GMT -5
First game of the season, and the Pats at it again. Steelers sideline wasn't able to communicate through supplied headsets for the entire first half. All the could do was listen to the Patriots radio broadcast. The Patriots had to turn off their radios too. How is that an advantage for them? |
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Post by blny on Sept 21, 2015 13:08:10 GMT -5
First game of the season, and the Pats at it again. Steelers sideline wasn't able to communicate through supplied headsets for the entire first half. All the could do was listen to the Patriots radio broadcast. The Patriots had to turn off their radios too. How is that an advantage for them? Didn't happen right away, and even if it did, calling plays and communicating is far far easier as the home team. It's hard enough to hear, as a visiting QB, the in ear monitor on the field. Remove that, and you're having to run back and forth from the huddle to the sideline. No-huddle offense and audibles from the sideline are basically impossible. |
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Post by BadCompany on Sept 21, 2015 14:09:01 GMT -5
And if it was a deliberate plan to interfere with the headsets the Patriots may have spent all week practicing hand signals for their plays, whereas the Steelers wouldn't have thought of it.
Former Alouette and Seattle Seahawk Kerry Carter does a regular hit on the Team 690 and he said a few weeks back that while they were always very careful with their playbooks whenever they played in New England they had to turn them into the coaching staff extra early before game time because they tended to get "lost" up there all the time. He said this was the only city they ever did that.
Considering that they've been accused of stealing hand signals and playbooks, videotaping team walk-throughs, and even bugging opposing locker rooms, one can't help but wonder if they somehow knew that the Seahawks were going to throw on that last play in the Super Bowl, when everyone else and their dog figured they were going to run it. Instead, an undrafted rookie free agent somehow figures out in a split second (according to his own words) that Wilson was going to throw the ball by the way he planted his foot. Almost like he knew what the play call was going to be, eh?
Man, this tin foil hat itches.
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Post by Polarice on Sept 21, 2015 17:13:59 GMT -5
First game of the season, and the Pats at it again. Steelers sideline wasn't able to communicate through supplied headsets for the entire first half. All the could do was listen to the Patriots radio broadcast. The NFL is responsible for the headsets, not the home team. |
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