Greatest #12?

HugeSnack · Jul 17, 2015

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"It makes you wonder what else they've been doing that they haven't been caught doing yet." - Brian Dawkins, after Deflategate broke.

Indeed.

Back when Spygate hit, SI's Paul Zimmerman (probably the greatest pro football writer of all time) wrote that another issue that GMs, coaches, and players complained about (but was rarely reported) was the headsets at Gillette. According to Zimmerman's report, visitors' headsets always seemed to go out at inopportune times, start fading in and out, etc. There was some suspicion that the Pats eavesdropped on those telecommunications. Peter King later blogged that the headsets were encrypted so poorly that anyone with any training could break into those communications.

The home team is responsible for all communications set-ups. This was true in the playoffs, too...until the 2007 AFCCG. The NFL, responding to to some concerns, decided to do the set-ups and monitored those setups all game long. This seemed like an enormous "Gotcha." Suddenly, the unbeaten Pats struggled mightily against a Chargers team without Tomlinson and with Rivers playing on a torn knee ligament. And we all know how that Super Bowl went, too. It makes you wonder how much the headsets played a role in the Pats' demolition of opponents on the road to the undefeated regular season.
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I didn't know that. Cool.

I assume there was/is more cheating happening. They've been caught with two illegal schemes so far. Just statistically speaking, it seems unlikely those were/are the only two.

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