Good day all. If you follow sports at all, you will be aware of the New England Patriots, Tom Brady, Deflategate and the Patriots intelligence gathering activities on other teams.
This has given rise to levels of paranoia where the Patriots are involved that are absolutely epic. Just how epic? Recently, the New York Jets had their locker room at Gillette Stadium swept for bugs, and I don’t mean the creepy crawly kind. Here are the details from CBS New York:
Because of past incidents like “Spygate” and “Deflategate,” the franchise is constantly criticized for breaking the rules in an effort to gain an unfair advantage.
Lies and sour grapes by second rate teams, that’s all.
It seems that the Jets kept this in mind ahead of their game at Gillette Stadium last week. On Friday morning, WFAN host Boomer Esiason said he was told on Thursday night that, prior to the game, the Jets asked the NFL to sweep the locker room in Foxborough for bugs — aka hidden listening devices.
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Well, I see that Bill Belichick’s cunning plan to utterly gaslight opposing teams is working splendidly.
“We have conducted, for years, routine and random checks around the league,” an NFL spokesman told the New York Daily News. “We do not get into details of specific games.”
Let me guess? Those “Random” checks always seem to take place at Gillette Stadium?
“Peyton Manning has always thought that there were listening devices in there,” Esiason said. “And then when he would go in there and he would talk to his teammates, he’d put his hand over this mouth and he’d whisper into the ear of his teammates because he was afraid that there could actually be a camera in there to read his lips.”
Boomer went on to explain that paranoia comes with the territory in the National Football League. Were the Jets extra paranoid because they were playing the Patriots? Maybe, maybe not.
To paraphrase Rahm Emanuel, “Never let your bad reputation go to waste when your opponent is looking for something that is not there.”
Thatisall
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