Jerome Bettis is still salty
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Maybe if they focused more on improving their performance and less on accusing the other team of cheating the Steelers wouldn't have lost to the Patriots so often?
Just a thought for you, Jerome.
Just a thought for you, Jerome.
The only reason Bettis isn't considered an all-time choke artist is that 1) Big Ben made an insane tackle after Bettis' fumble against Indy that should have cost them the game, and 2) the refs gave the Steelers SB 40.
What a whiny loser.
What a whiny loser.
You can also thank Nick Harper’s wife, she stabbed him in the leg the night before, might have slowed him down just enough that Ben could make that tackle.
Has anyone ever told the Steelers that taping signals wasn’t against the rules in 2004? So even if the Pats were doing, it wasn’t technically cheating.
Also, this is the NFL, why wouldn’t you change to your signals periodically anyway? I was on a high school staff for years and when we found out teams had decoded our pre-snap calls and signals, we changed them, in game even. If high school kids can figure it out on the fly, I’m sure pro players would have no problem.
Not entirely correct, as there had been a prohibition around operating video taping equipment in the NFL's bylaws for quite some time. Just that the rules also stipulated situations where videotaping was allowed, so there was some ambiguity which the NFL never felt was a big enough deal to worry about.
It was in 2006 that the NFL sent out a memo mentioning changes to the The National Football League Policy Manual for Member Clubs in which videotaping from the sidelines was more explicitly prohibited, after receiving complaints about multiple teams operating video cameras from the sidelines.
Still, the taping was limited to defensive signals because by 2004 offenses had long adopted the coach-to-QB communication system that was integrated into the QB's helmet. There were no offensive signals to tape in 2004.
And, yes, teams that never changed their signals deserved what they got.
View: https://bleacherreport.com/articles/199345-the-truth-about-spygate-punishing-success-and-promoting-parity
Can we edit this thread to add another character?
View: https://twitter.com/jasrifootball/status/1709666224806764782?s=46
View: https://twitter.com/jasrifootball/status/1709666224806764782?s=46
He must've been in on it. That would explain not bothering to block Hightower.
I know, right? Probably the biggest play in a game with some very big plays. (I guess there were like nearly a half dozen outcome determinative plays, so maybe that's overstatement, but still.)
Coleman getting hurt was such a big rarely-discussed aspect of that game. Freeman was on the sideline probably with his helmet off, because it was Coleman's series. He comes in quick, wasn't mentally into the game, and one play later it's a game again. One of those little things that has to happen to complete a big comeback.
I don't know who any of those twitterers are but I'm guessing Freeman "liking" the tweet is just him saying "haha", right? Nobody is serious.
A lot of the big plays in that game were guys just beating guys, outperforming them. That was a dumb mental error. He didn't even think about High until it was way past too late to do anything. If I were him, I'd be quiet about "throwing the game".
