NFL 2007
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- kingjulien0
Every coach/team does not cheat. That's a moronic argument. Even if they did, they shouldn't, and that's something we should all be able to agree upon.
tommyo
(Sep 17 07, 12:26)Did you watch Fox's pregame report yesterday? Both Jimmy Johnson and Barry Switzer, Hall-of-Fame coaches who have won championships on both the collegiate and professional levels, stated emphatically that trying to decipher the other team's play calling has been going on forever. Both admitted to doing it. Both denied it was cheating, just getting a competitive edge.
Jimmy Johnson went on to state that while coaching Dallas, he had interns comb through the opposing locker rooms' garbage cans - after each game - for game plans, photographs, and anything else that would provide insight into the other team's strategies.
Scouts attend games, take photographs of plays from the stands or the booths, and watch the sidelines for patterns that reveal play-calling.
In baseball, runners on second base try to read the catcher's signs. That's why they change the signs mid-game.
Taking performance-enhancing drugs, altering your equipment to gain a competitive edge, using corked bats or vaseline or spit to doctor a baseball, that is cheating.
Trying to figure out the opposing team's offensive/defensive schemes is part of the intellectual side of sports, and has been going on since the dawn of the game.