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Re: No Faith in the Moral Standards of the Players as a Group
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Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
1. It has to have an impact. If you illegally figure out just one play before the snap, that has a direct impact on the game - NFL games are routinely decided by one or two plays. A successful completion on third down at the 50 turns into an incompletion resulting in a punt. That's one play that had a huge effect on the probability of the opponent scoring. We've all played Tecmo Bowl and know what happens when you call the other team's play.
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Any team could have someone watching the other team's signals and telling the sideline what they were going to do. What the Patriots allegedly did was videotape the signals to try to learn them better. I don't have the link open so you'll have to find it yourself, but Deadspin tries to figure out whether the guy who was doing this was getting the calls right and making a difference. I'm sure it helped, or they wouldn't have done it. But it doesn't sound like it helped much. They certainly did not know exactly what those teams were going to call.
eta: from my browser history, Deadspin link
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“It was fortunate that so few men acted according to moral principle, because it was so easy to get principles wrong, and a determined person acting on mistaken principles could really do some damage." - Larissa MacFarquhar
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