SuperHornet
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NBC confirmed the ESPN rumors on their pre-game show tonight, both before and during their interview with Roger Goodell. The Patsies were ALSO caught illegally miking their DLs to catch the Jets' QB's cadence and the Jets' OL's line calls.
Goodell disagreed with Collinsworth's and Bettis' assertion that he was getting "soft" on authority figures but hard core on the players (Jones/Henry vs. Bellichick). Collinsworth and Bettis wanted a suspension, but Goodell said that the unprecedented fine in addition to the indeterminant loss of draft pick (own first rounder as opposed to the one received in a trade with SF, I think, if the Patriots make the playoffs; 2 and 3 if they don't) sends a strong enough signal that the League Office means business when it comes to illegally creating a competitive advantage.
Nobody wants to hear my solution: enforce by legislation a return to the no-mike, no-hand-signal system. The QB calls his own plays unless the coach wants to send in something special with a messenger guard. This would eliminate all this folderoll, and we don't have to hear about the man on second is stealing the catcher's signs in a high tech fashion anymore. Besides, in my book, if you can't trust your QB to call his own plays on a consistent basis, then you can't trust him to call crunch-time audibles, anyway.
Goodell disagreed with Collinsworth's and Bettis' assertion that he was getting "soft" on authority figures but hard core on the players (Jones/Henry vs. Bellichick). Collinsworth and Bettis wanted a suspension, but Goodell said that the unprecedented fine in addition to the indeterminant loss of draft pick (own first rounder as opposed to the one received in a trade with SF, I think, if the Patriots make the playoffs; 2 and 3 if they don't) sends a strong enough signal that the League Office means business when it comes to illegally creating a competitive advantage.
Nobody wants to hear my solution: enforce by legislation a return to the no-mike, no-hand-signal system. The QB calls his own plays unless the coach wants to send in something special with a messenger guard. This would eliminate all this folderoll, and we don't have to hear about the man on second is stealing the catcher's signs in a high tech fashion anymore. Besides, in my book, if you can't trust your QB to call his own plays on a consistent basis, then you can't trust him to call crunch-time audibles, anyway.
