Look I will state all this once more:
#1 Dick hoak, upon retirement, said that back in the days of the same set of VHS game tapes being circulated to teams, they were playing the same opponent BB's team had just played. when they got their gametapes, they also got practice and sideline footage of that team... the Rooneys opted to deal with it quietly, as they always do...
#2 Rumors were always present long before Spygate that The pats hacked the QB signal frequency. This was also along the lines that somehow whenever a team was doing well vs them, the headsets would experience static or be knocked off line totally at Foxboro. This persisted till the year after spygate broke, when the league opted mysteriously to hire a major security firm to encrypt the QB headset system, which is all on record by the way...
#3 There were ample rumors that the Pats miked players besides the QB all the way back to the early 2000's... at least one cut guy alledged it... and after the spygate fiasco, the league allowed one defensive player to be miked as well...
#4 there were rumors that bradys headset doesn't cut off during the play
#5 during spygate the league confiscated illegal audio equipment along the sidelines... it was in every early report. Goodell commented on it once, saying it was sent off for examination, later he dismissed it as nothing as he buried the rest of the evidence
#6 they had multiple reports of taping practices and walkthroughs
...Bugging a locker room would be right along those lines... totally corrupt org over there... should be totally dissolved if found to be true...
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