@cc660: Did the ny jets asked the #NFL to sweep their locker room for listening devices before last weeks game? YES THEY DID
RedOctober3829 said:@cc660: Did the ny jets asked the #NFL to sweep their locker room for listening devices before last weeks game? YES THEY DID
Mystic Merlin said:
And?
RedOctober3829 said:@cc660: Did the ny jets asked the #NFL to sweep their locker room for listening devices before last weeks game? YES THEY DID
Boomer Esiason of WFAN reported on his weekday radio show that the Jets asked that their locker room at Gillette Stadium be swept for bugs in advance of Sunday’s game against the Patriots.
Contacted by PFT, the Jets declined comment regarding the situation. A source with knowledge of the situation tells PFT that the Jets did not request that the locker room be swept for bugs; however, the source did not deny that the locker room was swept for bugs.
The Patriots likewise had no comment on the situation, and the NFL could not immediately be reached for comment.
Concerns regarding the presence of bugs in Gillette Stadium locker rooms aren’t new; it was one of the main points made last month in an article from Sports Illustrated regarding suspicions about the Patriots. No listening devices ever have been found in any locker rooms in the Patriots stadium.
As one source has explained it to PFT, the Patriots have become concerned that a team eventually will plant bugs on its own and claim that the Patriots put them there. This has prompted the Patriots to ask the league to certify before each game that the visiting locker room is clean before an opposing team enters. Per the source, the NFL has declined to do this.
Koufax said:Lots of reasons.
1. It's hard to prove a negative.
2. It's not within their area of expertise.
3. They would be doing something special for the Pats (or else backing into doing this in every stadium).
Koufax said:Lots of reasons.
1. It's hard to prove a negative.
2. It's not within their area of expertise.
3. They would be doing something special for the Pats (or else backing into doing this in every stadium).
Are you saying the science of PSI in footballs isn't either?There is no Rev said:
Think about #2 for a second.
It'll come to you.
THe Mass Staties that Robert Kraft pays double time on Sunday's to for details on Sunday are independent? Conspiracy!!!!!bankshot1 said:Hire the Mass Staties to do it.
Then put out a press release stating so.
This Pats paranoia borders on the insane.
NortheasternPJ said:THe Mass Staties that Robert Kraft pays double time on Sunday's to for details on Sunday are independent? Conspiracy!!!!!
They're on the payroll Mike!!
Woops went Mazz by mistake.
PayrodsFirstClutchHit said:Install one of these in the visitor locker room.
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/10/30/nfl-says-jets-did-not-request-bug-sweep/The NFL has chimed in on the report that the Jets requested a sweep for bugs of their locker room at Gillette Stadium on Sunday.
Says league spokesman Brian McCarthy: “No such request was made by the Jets.”
That meshes with information PFT previously received from a source with knowledge of the situation. However, PFT has learned that a sweep did in fact occur, regardless of whether the Jets asked for it. The statement from the league doesn’t address whether the sweep happened. Which means that it may have happened, but that the Jets didn’t request it.
McCarthy has added more via Twitter, which can be regarded at least as confirmation that a sweep may have happened: “We have for years conducted regular & random checks. We do not get into details of specific games.”
11 out of 12 were deflated by 2 lbs.soxhop411 said:@ProFootballTalk: NFL comment on report of bug sweep: "No such request was made by the Jets." Statement doesn't address whether sweep happened or not.
Or the Patriots.J.McG said:Updated bug sweep details from Florio/PFT:
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/10/30/nfl-says-jets-did-not-request-bug-sweep/
Sounds like this was driven by NFL Ops -- Kensil/Vincent still looking to exact another pound of flesh from the Patriots.
This is turning into a fucking house of mirrors.BigJimEd said:Or the Patriots.
Just because the NFL told the Patriots no thatthey wouldn't certify it doesn't mean they didn't agree to do it at least for some games.
Weeeeee. Let's see what the pats were accused of this time.RedOctober3829 said:
Ben Volin @BenVolin 19s19 seconds ago
There was a second, brief run-in with NFL Security at Sunday's Pats-Jets game. Pats employees were questioned and cleared. Story coming
RedOctober3829 said:
Ben Volin @BenVolin 19s19 seconds ago
There was a second, brief run-in with NFL Security at Sunday's Pats-Jets game. Pats employees were questioned and cleared. Story coming
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before — NFL Security got a little suspicious at a Patriots-Jets game.
The league’s security conducted a pregame sweep of the visitor’s locker room for electronic bugs at Gillette Stadium on Oct. 25, and also questioned during the game two Patriots game-day employees who were wearing headsets on the sideline, multiple league sources confirmed to the Globe on Friday.
The sources said NFL Security did not find anything in the locker room sweep, and did not find anything suspicious with the two employees after questioning them on the sideline during the second half. One of the employees works full time with the team and was producing the in-stadium entertainment; the other employee is a local resident and game-day employee who was holding spare batteries and monitoring the communication system between the officials on the field and in the booth upstairs. The matter was closed by the league.
The locker room sweep and employee questioning were unrelated, sources said, and were not initiated by the Jets. New York radio host and former quarterback Boomer Esiason said early Friday on his show that the Jets had requested the locker room be swept for bugs.
Two sources said that each NFL stadium is randomly swept for electronics by NFL Security at least once per season, with the league checking out the visitor’s locker room, the officials’ locker room, testing the visiting team’s headsets to make sure they work properly, and so on.
An NFL spokesman stated that the Jets did not ask for the pregame sweep, and confirmed a random electronics testing program.
“No such request was made by the Jets,” spokesman Brian McCarthy said on Twitter. “We have for years conducted regular & random checks. We do not get into details of specific games.”
Jets-Patriots games are no stranger to investigations, of course. In a Week 1 game at the former Meadowlands Stadium in 2007, the Jets informed NFL Security that the Patriots were videotaping the game from an improper area, leading to the scandal that became Spygate.
Since then, the Patriots have been accused many times of chicanery and gamesmanship at Gillette Stadium, with opposing coaches complaining about faulty headsets and former Colts coach Tony Dungy saying that he used to sweep the visiting locker room for bugs at Gillette. None of the accusations have been proven.
Just more evidence of how good they are at cheating, I'm afraid.Hoya81 said:"NFL Investigates, finds Patriots employees doing their jobs."
If the story is that no one requested this and the league does routine and random checks... Volin is a bad person.RedOctober3829 said:If this happens every season then why is it newsworthy Volin?
dynomite said:If the story is that no one requested this and the league does routine and random checks... Volin is a bad person.