“It was with the coach-to-coach headsets”, NBC’s Michele Tafoya added. A part of the ESPN story that mostly detailed spygate talked about how opponents often have their headsets go out and the most inopportune times when they’re playing in New England. But it surely won’t slow down the narrative of unusual things happening around the Patriots.
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The Patriots’ coach-to-coach headsets were disabled until the issue was resolved early in the second quarter. The issue did not cause communication to be lost, just “impaired”, Curran added.
We may be less than a quarter into the first game of the new season, but already Antonio Brown is making a case for Catch of the Year. The league is reportedly in charge of communications in stadiums.
The Steelers’ coaching headsets stopped working, and everybody suspiciously looked over at the Patriots. “It’s just how they operate”.
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – It wouldn’t be a New England Patriots game without some drama involving off-the-field strategy. Another current head coach brings his own equipment because he doesn’t trust the Patriots to supply anything of quality. “Frayed wires, the speaker is all chopped up….” It’s not the reason they lost the game, however, and I’m sure several will take Tomlin’s comments as him trying to make excuses for how his team played against the Patriots. There have been previous reports that some teams thought the Patriots were tampering with communications devices, although those suspicions have never resulted in league discipline.
