I have said it many times here, but having knowledge of your opponents signals is a HUGE advantage. That is why there are very specific league rules against the taping of offensive and defensive signals.

This Kremer interview with Walsh certainly does piss me off. In my opinion we’ve been cheated out of at least a chance to have won another Superbowl by these A HOLES.

Also, this goes out to all the Pats fans that have trashed Manning over his career and put any doubt or further debate to rest. Peyton Manning IS the best QB of this generation and he didn’t have to cheat to get there.

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All that interview did was support everything I’ve said to date on the piece of shit Patriots organization. Those hacks are dead to me, and I wish nothing but the worst upon all of them.

against the Cowboys and what Jimmy Johnson said in an interview with WFAN. If what he said is true, then the Cowboys legacy is also tainted. I am in no way defending what BB did, just looking for the same amount of outrage at these comments by a coach of a great team…

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Q: How about the spying thing Jimmy. You’re a coach does that bother you what Belichick did?

JJ: Oh please. I’ve said it on our show. Eighteen years ago a scout for the chiefs told me what they did, and he said what you need to do is just take your camera and you go and zoom in on the signal caller and that way you can sync it up. The problem is that if they’re not on the press box side you can’t do it from the press box, you have to do it from the sideline. This was 18 years ago.

Q: You think the NFL came down too hard on them?

JJ: No, no, I said it on the show. He was wrong for doing it for the simple reason that the league knew this was going on not ust in New England but around the league. And the league sent out the memorandum to all of the teams saying you cannot do this. And os that’s when Bill Belichick was wrong. After he got the memorandum saying don’t do it any more, he did it.

Q: Did you ever steal signals?

JJ: Oh in a heartbeat, yeah. Yes I did.

Q: Via video, Jimmy? Or no?

JJ: Oh yeah, I did it with video and so did a lot of other teams in the league. Just to make sure that you could study it and take your time, because you’re going to play the other team the second time around. But a lot of coaches did it, this was commonplace.

Q: But did you do it by taping the signal caller?

JJ: Yeah.

Q: Oh you did.

JJ: That’s what I’m saying. I was saying one of Marty Schottenheimers scouts, Mark Hatley, who has passed away now, Mark told me that’s how they did it, and Howard Mudd their offensive line coach with Kansas City, who now coaches for Tony Dungy, he was the best in the entire league at stealing signals.

Q: Where’d you put your guy who was videotaping? Where was he?

JJ: My guy was up with my camera crew in the press box. So you’d just put an extra camera up with your camera crew in the press box who zoomed in on the signal callers. That’s the best way to do it, but anyway you can’t always do that because the press box camera crew might be on the same side as the opposing team. If they’re on the same side as the opposing team that’s when you need to do it from the sideline.

Q: Also with some operations and some teams they have equipment set up within the stadium so they can just run it ack and check what’s going on during the game anyway.

JJ: Oh I’ll tell you [laughing] some of the stuff that goes on it’s almost comical.

Q: Jimmy don’t you think using contraptions like that goes against the spirit of football?

JJ: Well that’s why the league put in that you can’t use any electronic equipment, during the game, locker room, press box, sideline, this type of thing. They ruled against it and again that’s why Bill Belichick was wrong.

Q: How much of an advantage would it give them?

JJ: Well you know Bradshaw and I had a talk back and forth on this. I did it a few times and then I stopped doing it because I didn’t think we got much out of it to be honest with you. But games are so close… If it gives you one single play in the ballgame it might be the difference. But again, he was wrong for doing it after the memorandum was sent out by the league, because the league knew that other teams were doing it. And so… it was a commonplace thing though

Did anyone watch the interview in CBS News with Belichick? That was pretty hilarious and enraging at the same time.

Is that the Patriots players didn’t really think it was big deal to peek into the “solution book”.
Hope it costs a few of them the HoF slot they are taking for granted. I can be a “genius” too if I knew what was coming in the exam.

In his autobiography, Landry described the league’s flirtation with radio communication between coaches and the quarterback in 1956. The Giants were playing the Cleveland Browns, and Paul Brown, Cleveland’s head coach, was sending play calls electronically to George Ratterman, his quarterback.

"As soon as the game began, our rookie end Bob Topp donned the earphones and tuned our radio to the Cleveland frequency," Landry wrote. Brown’s play call would be relayed to Landry in time for him to make adjustments on the field. By the time Brown realized that he was being overheard, the Giants had run up an insurmountable lead.

Was this game ever erased from the record books? He was a great coach, right??

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/opinion/18bowden.html?ref=sports