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did we REALLY get an edge? you don't know. you just know that we got caught taping defensive signals.

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I think it's reasonable to assume they got an edge. Why else would they continue to do something expressly illegal at the risk of severe punishment and public relations backlash?

-McGee

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maybe b/c they thought other teams were doing the same thing, so it really wasn't an edge, more like a shared dirty little secret. also, taping had never been punished before. and they probably figured that if they were caught, any penalty they got wouldn't be as severe as 1st round pick - that was an unprecedented penalty. when the story first broke, people were assuming the penalty would be something like a 3rd round pick.