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Dear you,

Read this article, which may be found at the following link:
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/columns/story?columnist=garber_greg&id=3 03489

Enjoy,
Uncle Waspy Vanillaface

I have an idea to stop the cheating. Dont allow video cameras at all just those people who do scketches at courtroom during trials that will limit them alittle bit

Urnze, great article....I haven't read "File not found" in some time...

The skrimshaw idea is the pants kspice...

And the helmet transmitter on defense is the only logical answer...not only does it help keep play calling private but it renders your typical layman style espionage ie. a camera man on the field, irrelevant...

Now if they really wanna get high tech they are going to need to employ the skills of the No Such Agency....

you could prevent it IF you didnt slap the coach on the wrist..

Yeah, sorry Agent, the link didn't paste fully, but the story is on the ESPN site, and is by Greg Garber--there is a big picture of Belichick; you'll find the article there. I am not referring to the recent Easterbrook hype-piece.

The helmet radio is not a bad idea, but still not a good one. Defensive players shuffle on and off the field, and rarely is one player on the field for every snap. The QB, on the other hand, is on the field for each offensive play. Thus, the coach-to-QB radio is an effective solution. Unless a system could be devised that would account for defensive substitutions and specialized packages, I don't see the helmet radio as an entirely viable playcalling option on defense.

A Defensive communication device...Just what the Pats wanted from the start! Enjoy gameplanning against a Bellicheck defense next year! LOL!!!

Do it like we used to in high school. Send the play in with the subs.

Urnze, I don't think it would be that difficult to have the plays sent to multiple players. Nothing more complicated than a 3 or 4 way conference call. Big business does it all the time, so do I. So if both player A AND player B both have the equiped helmets then it wouldn't matter which one was out on the field, one of them would be able to relay the call to the team....

And if you go with one way commos, that's even easier...

I agree, equipping multiple players is a viable solution, but that isn't the one the league has one the table. The solution you offer is simple, and avoids the complication of one radio for a player who may not always be on the field; now, the question is whether the competition committee and the league are gifted with the same level of insight...

Agent O are you suggesting an NFL Friends and Family thing? Maybe Verizon could get the contract.

Anyone caught cheating should be urinated on publicly

That's your solution for everything you tomcat!!!!!!!!!!!

The peoples' chicken likes golden showers!!

I think the communists brainwashed him

On the spot castration for any cheating infractions

Easy! Catch them and punish them! Pull their pants down at center field and give them a public flogging! That ought to do it! LOL (DC)

or make them sign with the Raiders

Urnze, yeah the common sense approach is not one I think the NFL has followed to any great degree...we'll just have to see....

Maybe they put metal detectors at the entrances so when the teams come out of the locker room onto the field they get searched...

texex, so who do you think belicheck will have in his 5??

How about you send the teams and coaches a memo telling them not to cheat? Oh, that's been done already.

Frankly, I don't see the what I like to call "the issue". By that, I mean, we need all the tools possible to prevent evil-doers from threatening our freedom to become corporate sponsors, go to f'ball games, buy what I like to call "tube steaks", and watch cheerleaders exercise their freedom of expression.

As you may remember, I know something about f'ball, having been a cheerleader myself. In fact, I almost wore my little cheerleading outfit when I landed on that aircraft carrier a few years back. That flight suit costume made my a.s.s. look kinda fat, I thought.

Anyway, we need all the surveillance equipment we can get to keep America safe. In fact, if Bill Belichick thinks it would keep America safer, I will authorize the extraordinary rendition of any opposing coach to some foreign country like Syria or Istambul or Billerica to crack his code. Maybe even water-board him a little bit, heh, heh... I like water.

And any squishy, Constitution-quoting, pinko who complains about it, clearly is not a Patriot.