Unfair Advantage?

[draftguru151]

They said the listened so they knew the pass protections and such. Like whatever Brady calls at the line Miami knows. In no way is this cheating, if it were the Dolphins would get in trouble, it is just a good job by Saban.

[San Diego Chicken]

I believe what the Dolphins studied were Brady's actual protection assignments that he calls out after surveying the defense.

[VoteLynnSwan]

i voted yes... but i meant no...

[cunningham06]

How exactly does this work? I don't see how you could anticipate snap count based on voice inflection.

probabably patterns in the fluctuations of his voice during snap counts or somthing to that extent.

So they train the players to listen to his voice during snap counts and try to predict when he's going to snap it? Sounds useless to me.

Sure there are different snap counts but they were probably in addition to studying protection assignments was any unintentional tendencies that Brady may have while hiking the ball to see if they could use it to their advantage.

[GB12]

I dont get why Salisbury keeps arguing that it's cheating on sports center. He even compared it to steroid use and isnt making any sense. Sometimes I wonder why some of these guys still have jobs.

[cgrsly57]

This isnt cheating at all. If it really happend and its the reason why the dolphins won then its New Englands fault for not mixing up thier audibles. Dont all teams use fake audibles on every other play anyway? I know my highschool team did and I just assumed everybody did.

[njx9]

someone quote me where in the rule book it says that this (or anything similar) is against the rules. until then, there's absolutely no way you can make the argument that it is.

[Star Wideout]

Good for them. Hopefully this will teach coaches to change up their pass protection calls...before each game. If they don't already do that.

[Xonraider]

How exactly does this work? I don't see how you could anticipate snap count based on voice inflection.

probabably patterns in the fluctuations of his voice during snap counts or somthing to that extent.

So they train the players to listen to his voice during snap counts and try to predict when he's going to snap it? Sounds useless to me.

More like line slides, or blocking schemes. Maybe Brady calls ''x'' player is blitzing, so tackle or guard pick him up. The player infront of him will know he's blitzing

[jkpigskin]

the patriots just got their butt kicked... end of story.... sure maybe this voice thingy helped the miami D, but their D was man handling so badly that i dont think some voice thing would have made that much of a difference

[The Unseen]

I dont get why Salisbury keeps arguing that it's cheating on sports center. He even compared it to steroid use and isnt making any sense. Sometimes I wonder why some of these guys still have jobs.

Because

1. He's an idiot.

2. He was a former quarterback and doesn't like the idea of the defense knowing what he's saying.

3. He's an idiot.

[BigDawg819]

I dont get why Salisbury keeps arguing that it's cheating on sports center. He even compared it to steroid use and isnt making any sense. Sometimes I wonder why some of these guys still have jobs.

Because

1. He's an idiot.

2. He was a former quarterback and doesn't like the idea of the defense knowing what he's saying.

3. He's an idiot.

You might want to mention that he's an idiot. Salisbury is always against anything that works against quarterbacks and will always back up Manning and Brady.

[cunningham06]

the patriots just got their butt kicked... end of story.... sure maybe this voice thingy helped the miami D, but their D was man handling so badly that i dont think some voice thing would have made that much of a difference

The Pats got dominated at the line of scrimmage all game, it seemed to me like the film had some impact with how effective Miami was upfront.

[I'mAHustler]

People have been trying to do this to Peyton Manning for years, but because he owns them with the fake audibles, no one says anything

[jackalope]

it's not an unfair advantage if everyone can do it. good work by the fins.