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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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Please show where in the NFL rules it says that stealing signs (or using video equipment to do so) is against the rules. All the commissioner's letter said was basically it cannot be done from the sidelines *or* from the coaches booth for use in that specific game.

All the Pats did was break the rule of *where*. Since the camera was seized during the 1st half, it is clear they did not use that during the game.

Stealing signs is not cheating, it is playing to win.

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I guess that's why the league took a 1st round pick from them and the Pats haven't objected to it at all.