wah
I have to ask, does anyone out there actually doubt that every single team in the league doesn't do the exact same thing?
Why do you suppose that every single coach in the league (that isn't working for the jets) covers his mouth when he sends in a play?
In baseball, reading the coaches signals has been part of the game as long as I can remember. That's why the coaches give so many complicated signals, so the other team can't read them. They also change the signals during the course of the game.
If the jets coaches are dumb enough to give signals that are easy to read, then it's their problem and not the patriots.
IMO this is not cheating at all, it's called playing the game, It is just being smart (or not depending on which side of the field you are on). If it's visible out there in the open then it's fair game.
Now there was a scandal a few years ago that was completely different. Seems the home team was caught tapping into the opponent's signal from the booth to the sideline to the quarterback so they could hear everything that was said or heard through their headphone/mic system. The dumbasses forgot to make it a one-way survelance and they acidentally keyed their mic early on in the game and got caught. Now that's cheating.
They took away the headsets from both teams for the remainder of the game and then the NFL covered it up hush hush to avoid the bad publicity. Lots O'people lost their jobs and were banned from the NFL for life but it barely made the news and then only as rumor or unsubstantiated and denied accusations.
before you ask, I heard all about it second hand. My brother is friends with a guy who was a player on one of the teams, and even though the player had been forced to sign a letter of non-disclosure he told my brother all about it. If he got caught talking about it he would get fined big time and suspended but he had been injured and was already out of the league at the time so there was little they could do to him.
One of these days it will prolly end up in someone's biography.
PS the only time you would ever catch me rooting for the jets would be if they were playing the raiders.
I don't necesary dislike the raiders, but I hate the raiders fans. Bunch of low-life gang member criminal wanabees (with the exception of present company of course).
PPS I'm not a fan. Fan is short for fanatic and I'd be ashamed to be fanatical about a silly sports team.