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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
You said they were taping practices. They weren't. They were taping defensive coaches' signals from the sidelines. They were allowed to tape from somewhere else, as you point out (not on the field, but e.g. from a box seat). If the rules really said that you can tape the action on the field from a box but that you can't capture in that film what is happening on the sidelines, then that's a particularly stupid rule because I would bet a lot of money (if I actually ever bet instead of just saying shit like this for rhetorical reasons) that other NFL teams had film which captured the other teams' sidelines and those their defensive signals.
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You're right. The rule is pointless. It's probably not in place to try to prevent guys from zeroing in on specific coaches that one wouldn't or couldn't pick out as the one sending the actual (as opposed to dummy signals) or picking up audio or catching plays off the clipboard or smaller signals from coaches who teams probably don't or can't focus on from above. Goodell fined the Patriots a first round draft pick because he didn't honor the spirit of the rule.
You are something else.
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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Negligible is your word, not mine. What I said is that the reaction to what they have done is grossly disproportionate.
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Look, the world champs got busted cheating on the way to the Superbowl. It's a huge story. If that's your main complaint, no one really cares. I'm sure almost every other team does some shady shit as well. If the Chargers won the Superbowl and their receivers got busted for loading up on stickum in the playoffs, Charger fans would talk about how the difference between stickum and the gloves they use is minor, and how it's not that big a deal because everyone does it, etc. No one would care. You did it. You got caught. You lied. And now you look stupid. That's a huge story and it warrants a big reaction.
If you're saying the punishment is excessive, I agree. Probably should be two games, a small fine, and
maybe a fourth rounder. But all this bullshit about the league not really caring, and the balls not really being deflated, and the hemming and hawing is just stupid.
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