Quote Originally Posted by Troy
"Andy Reed had the straight dope on NE" You're killin' me.

I don't care that Belichick spied, because they all do. Coordinators always cover they mouths when they all plays to avoid lip readers. Teams have always been very secretive with their play calling and signals. They are constantly changing anyway.

You should always be trying for any advantage in every sport. If you are not pushing the rulebook envelope, you're failing at your job.

Besides, Belichick has shown after spygate that they don't need the other team's signals anyway.

The guy's the most brilliant football mind since Walsh. Yeah, he's an obsessed jerk too. At that level of the sport they all are. He's changing the level of expectations in the sport and he's not taking any crap from anybody in the process. What's not to like?

Nope, TRYING to steal the other teams plays should be legal. It should be up to YOU to guard YOUR plays!

It should be legal, just like the 'roids. Most of MLB was on heavy drugs thru the 90s/early-2000s. Bonds will be a scapegoat for the entire sport. Most of MLB is still on performance enhancing drugs. Legalize it. I want to see 7 foot tall, 300 pound wide receivers, running a 4.3 40 in the NFL. I want to see a monster shot HR every other at bat. I want to see how far we can go!

See, they think they can police all this kind of stuff at all levels of sport and society, but they truly can't. There's drugs to mask the illegal drugs, just like you can put someone in the stands dressed like a fan, with a 1000mm lens to record signals. It's all unenforceable, so it should all be legal.
Please Troy. McGwire was using, we all know it, but steroids weren't illegal in baseball before 2002, so it doesn't matter. What Bond's did was use and lie about it to a grand jury. That's called perjury, and he could be going to the big house because of it. The FBI conviction rate is something like 90%, so I think he's going to pay the piper finally.

Belacheat used cameras to spy on teams and steal their signals. Reading lips isn't cheating, just like stealing signals in baseball. Rules aren't meant to be broken, especially not at this level. Yeah, I think a lot of your post was sarcasm, but I don't have my detector on, so let me know if I went over-the-top.

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