Stop whining. They did nothing wrong, and to imply it's cheating is ridiculous. They simply got out coached and out played.
Wildcat formations create an imbalanced formation... where you don't know who the true QB, RB or WR's will be on any given play. Its defensible if you know its coming, but when it first came out it created a wave of havoc. Same thing here... defenses will now be able to adjust to it, and that's why the Patriots didn't run it the rest of the game because its only going to be ultra-effective when they don't know its coming. It got them back into the game... and they ultimately won it. Those sort of adjustments are made by championship-type staffs. Its the coaches who are incapable of making in-game adjustments/tweaks that suffer in this league.
Cheaters gonna Cheat Rocket River Haven't won anything since they been exposed so not they find a new way to cheat
Please... so their perfect regular season and subsequent 10+ wins every season defines as "haven't won anything"? Its safe to say they've been extremely good regardless of the spygate stuff.
Harbaugh- "Patriots don't know what kind of game they're getting into." Patriotts- "Harbaugh doesn't know who the eligible receivers are."
There's some sour grapes here. If you were worried about cheating, why didn't you create a thread about the terrible officiating last week where Dallas paid off the refs? Complaining about trick plays. LOL.
Precisely my take as well. If this was cheating, the wildcat is too. And I am no fan of the pats at all. Generally root against them.
Without evidence or argument. Yes, that was impressive. Please tell us how all other deception in football, including fake blitzes and line stunts, are okay w you.
Agreed - the whole point of creative playcalling is to deceive the defense. The whole point of disguising blitzes is to deceive the offense. Oregon does this all the time on their 2-pt conversion attempts when they line up the whole team over to one side of the field and do random, confusing stuff with it like throwing to a random eligible lineman. It's genius. <iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/G0ni2oWU3JQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Even the refs "didn't understand what was happening." I love it! Were they supposed to announce that Edelman was going to be the QB on that one play too? Also the refs, after hearing who reported as ineligible, announced it over the stadium PA system. For the second time, after Harbaugh's hissy fit, the ref announced (again) "number 34 is reporting as ineligible". And just because Harbaugh decided to go full nutcake, the ref added "do not cover number 34". At which point the Ravens D looked around at each other, a player lined up opposite Vereen, and ****ing covered him anyways Saban used a similar play to beat LSU earlier in the year. People raved about how brilliant it was then and said how they’d never seen such a play before. Belichick saw it and put it in his back pocket, because that’s just what great coaches do. Spoiler Harbaugh's tears of unfathomable sadness.
Hot-Take-'what' is in full force lately. Floyd Mayweather isn't a good boxer because of his "tactics" that have made him undefeated? New play formations are cheating and "bush league"? Never change!
If you are talking about coaches calling time out right before the ball is snapped, the NFL did not do away with that. Also, the NFL reported that the Patriots' strategy was legal: http://espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs/201...riots-substitutions-vs-baltimore-ravens-legal
Incorrect on this as noted by the NFL, and incorrect on Mayweather as noted by anyone who is not visually impaired. The "Huh?" count keeps getting longer and longer.
I saw the punt returner clearly signal for a fair catch and froze the tacklers. He then ran up and watched the ball roll into the end zone. He had no intent to ever catch that punt. Tricky, cheater....
