Hypothetical Super Bowl Cheating Question

[K-Gun]

This is simply a hypothetical question for the purpose of thinking through an interesting senario.

What if an NFL team employed computer hackers to find a way to monitor the radio transmission of their opponents?

Would this give a team enough of a strategic edge to make a difference in a game like the Super Bowl?

Would a team be able to make a late substitution on a key play in order to insert a player with pre-knowledge of the call in a position to make a big play? If so, would it appear like the player knew where the play was going before it happened?

Just something to think about, not that a team would ever try to steal the signals of another team in a game as big as the Super Bowl. But is it possible? And if so, what would the ramifications be?

[Bill Cody]

Re: Hypothetical Super Bowl Cheating Question

BB: "Butler it's the SLANT! The SLANT! BREAK BREAK BREAK YESSSS!"

[trapezeus]

Re: Hypothetical Super Bowl Cheating Question

i think the sponsors of the wireless equipment like bose wouldn't want that on their head.

i think anything is possible. and this whole playoff regarding the pats and the way they've circumvented every single rule makes me think this isn't below them.

frankly the punishment should be harsh. the pats "dynasty" is built on very little talent. even brady is a nobody who all of asudden became great. he was a bum in michigan. so to me, saying "they have brady" doesn't make a lot of sense. i think they are over the line on a lot of items aside from what has been disclosed and the one that isn't being caught is providing a major advantage. no way this team on paper over 15 years can have this result.

[Joe Fo Sho]

Re: Hypothetical Super Bowl Cheating Question

As the scandal broke, the NFL was investigating a possible violation into the number of radio frequencies the Patriots were using during the Jets game, sources told ESPN’s Chris Mortensen, who reported at the time that the Pats did not “have a satisfactory explanation when asked about possible irregularities in its communication setup during the game.”

http://nypost.com/2014/10/12/they-are-cheaters-spygate-the-nfl-scandal-that-started-it-all/

The Pats have already been under investigation for using a 2nd radio frequency to talk to Tom Brady after the 15 second play clock mark. If they were able to cheat that way, it wouldn't seem impossible to do it your way as well.

[DraftBoy]

Re: Hypothetical Super Bowl Cheating Question

Do you guys realize how many people would need to be involved in a scandal this size?

[K-Gun]

Re: Hypothetical Super Bowl Cheating Question

http://nypost.com/2014/10/12/they-ar...tarted-it-all/

The Pats have already been under investigation for using a 2nd radio frequency to talk to Tom Brady after the 15 second play clock mark. If they were able to cheat that way, it wouldn't seem impossible to do it your way as well.

That's interesting, I wonder if Kyle Orton could have had a HOF career if he had a coach communicating to him which wr's were open during the play itself. Maybe.

[Strongman]

Re: Hypothetical Super Bowl Cheating Question

Anything is possible, but I'd have to think the communications are encrypted which would be very difficult to crack. This is probably why Belicheat was doing Spygate to begin with as they couldn't listen in to the other teams in real time.

[Strongman]

Re: Hypothetical Super Bowl Cheating Question

Plus, I think anyone with that particular skill set is either working for the NSA, Mossad, or some other country's spy agency, making themselves very wealthy with insider knowledge in the stock exchanges, making themselves wealthy through some other means.

It is doubtful such a person is wasting it on the Patriots.

[Joe Fo Sho]

Re: Hypothetical Super Bowl Cheating Question

Do you guys realize how many people would need to be involved in a scandal this size?

A whole bunch. It's just a hypothetical though.

[Strongman]

Re: Hypothetical Super Bowl Cheating Question

LOL.. The Browns are now coming under scrutiny for "Textgate"

http://www.cleveland.com/browns/index.ssf/2015/02/cleveland_browns_ray_farmer_su.html

[trapezeus]

Re: Hypothetical Super Bowl Cheating Question

Do you guys realize how many people would need to be involved in a scandal this size?

3. ernie adams, belichick and brady.
and brady keeps accepting off market contracts for being dubbed the greatest qb on earth. and he keeps giving money back. seems suspect to me. and he always does it under the guise of bringing in more talent. and they never do.

[Meathead]

Re: Hypothetical Super Bowl Cheating Question

ernie adams, belichick and brady

what are three things that smell like a roxbury street hooker three days into shore leave, alex

[sukie]

Re: Hypothetical Super Bowl Cheating Question

Do you guys realize how many people would need to be involved in a scandal this size?

More or less the same number of talented clandestine workers that laced the twin towers with thermite without anyone detecting them or any of them singing like a canary years later....

[DynaPaul]

Re: Hypothetical Super Bowl Cheating Question

I honestly don't think you need that many people involved to run it. You really just need your one tech guy who can break the communications and of course it's then sent off to Ernie Adams, Belichick, and Brady. One tech savvy guy can do a lot of damage.

[stuckincincy]

Re: Hypothetical Super Bowl Cheating Question

I honestly don't think you need that many people involved to run it. You really just need your one tech guy who can break the communications and of course it's then sent off to Ernie Adams, Belichick, and Brady. One tech savvy guy can do a lot of damage.

Agreed.