Something To Think About

Which NFL coach do you think makes the best half time adjustments?

I bet most of you said Bill Belichick.

When you think about it, it would be easy to make half time adjustments if you had a videotape of the opposing coaching staff signaling in plays to their team in the first half. This isn't the first time that a Patriots coach has been caught with a video camera aimed at opposing coaches during a game. I'm not making any accusations here, I'm just giving you something to think about. Maybe Belichick isn't really a coaching genius. Maybe he is really just a gifted cheater.

Its also being reported (again) that the Patriots may have somehow intercepted and/or jammed the Jets radio signals during the game. When you think about it, it would probably give you a competitive advantage if you could listen in on the opposing team's play calls. Or if you could talk to your quarterback via a radio during the game but the opposing team couldn't talk to theirs. Didn't the Jaguars complain about this very same thing after they lost to the Patriots in the playoffs a couple years ago?

I hope Roger Goodell throws the book at the Patriots and Bill Belichick. I wouldn't feel that way if there weren't so many stories out there about the Patriots getting away with this kind of crap for years. I am not talking about the Patriots defenders holding opposing receivers or running sprinklers on Gillette Field for days before the Colts come to play. I'm also not talking about letting the grass in Foxborough grow long to slow down opposing players or having a snow blower clear a path for the hometown kicker to make the game winning field goal. Do a Google search and spend the rest of your day reading stories about some of the other things the Patriots are alleged to have done under Bill Belichick. I don't think that taking a draft pick away from the Patriots will be much of a penalty. I really think that taking multiple draft picks and/or forfeiture of the Jets game is what needs to happen to ensure that Belichick and Robert Kraft don't do this kind of crap again. I think that Belichick also needs to be suspended for multiple games and the assistant coach who ran the video camera needs to be banned from the League forever. I also think that if Belichick gets caught doing this kind of crap again that he should be banned from the League forever.

How about preventing them from having any home field advantage in the playoffs this year? Yeah, every game they would play would have to be on the opposing team's field.

Cheating is cheating. I think what the Patriots did is actually worse than a player taking performance enhancing drugs (and Rodney Harrison got 4 games for that). I wonder how many Patriot players were involved in this video taping thing. You know if this is all true that Tom Brady had to know about it. Stealing the signs from opposing defensive coaches would be meaningless if you couldn't pass the relevant info on to your quarterback. Wouldn't it be funny if Tom Brady suddenly became a bad quarterback now that Belichick has been caught and will no longer be able to give Tom a heads up on what the defenses will be doing on every play. I wonder if everybody would still consider him to be one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time if he now sucks for the rest of his career. I would think that would probably tarnish his image a little bit.

Just something to think about.