Q&A: What’s worse: The actions of Bill Belichick, or the New York Jets fans?

Question by Jim Jackson: What’s worse: The actions of Bill Belichick, or the New York Jets fans?
I’m a life long New York Jets fan, but come on!! Are you telling me that the media is more outraged about the Patriots “cheating” over the Jets fans mocking Chad Pennington for getting injured again? Especialy in light of what happened to the Buffalo Bills player the same day? Yes, the Patriots clearly violated the rules and should be punished as such. They gained an unfair advantage clearly evidenced by the Jets being well prepared, and played as such on offense, but their defensive signals were being spyed on and they couldn’t even touch Brady (which has never happened in any Pats/Jets game, whoever won.) But even as a Jets fan, I can’t say that’s worse than the actions of my fellow Jets fans mocking ANY player for getting hurt, let alone one of their own players. And one of their most successful players at that. I can give you a long list of those sucesses if you want too. Anyways, what do you think? Dont you agree that the worst actions that came from this game came from Jets fans?
Oh, I guess a point was raised about what kind of advantage was gained when the Patriots never got to see the tape. True. Here’s the thing: the NFL has been suspicious about this kind of action from the Patriots which is why they were caught. The NFL was monitoring the Patriots actions after several complaints from other NFL coaches. This time, they were finaly caught. So while this tape was no good for them, they had others from the past they had been using, leading to all of their “success.” If it weren’t for all of those complaints, I doubt the NFL security would have noticed an “innocent” camera man’s actions. They were looking for it, and while this tape was for future use, how many did they have from the past? And yes it did affect this game because Mangini had no idea the advantage his opponents had over him until after the game, or else he would have surely changed the signals to throw them back off. Good point, though.

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Answer by mark
I thought it was funny when it was happening the commentators were talking about how bad the fans are for cheering someone getting injured and for the back up qb to come in. Then when it came back from the commercial they said the fans were cheering Penningtons effort to walk off the field. You know someone from the nfl talked to them during the commercial.

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8 Comments

  1. Jai says:

    Yes it was wrong of the Jets fans, but I never thought much of them to begin with.

  2. Its just Ryan now says:

    Cheating destroys the Pats crediabilty and the integrity of the game. It calls in to question everything that Pats have done since Belichich has been their coach. New Yorkers have always been jack asses, so their actions are not surprising. I mean really do you expect anything more from them.

  3. irvin_cowboy says:

    I would have to say old Bill because he is an idiot I will be glad when him and his little girl miss brady leave the NFL

  4. bobdanailer69 says:

    You’re trying to compare apples and oranges. What Belichik and the Patriots did is in violation of league rules, and they did so even though they were fully aware of the rule. What the Jets’ fans did just shows that they’re typical New Yorkers, totally devoid of class.

  5. BAGOFSWAGS says:

    The film was for a future game and was confiscated in the 1st quarter after 15 Jets defensive plays had been run. I’m not sure how much of an unfair advantage had been gained when they couldn’t even look at the film they took.

  6. nflgeek26 says:

    It has to be the Jets fans. Signal stealing has gone on in the NFL for years. But how despicable is it when you not only cheer when another human being is injured, but when it is a player from the team that you are rooting for.

  7. Magneto says:

    Both are equally disgusting,they belong together like stink on $ hit

  8. Jon F says:

    you’re so wrong but it’s not really your fault the announcers for that game twisted the fans cheering into mocking pennington well thats bs they were cheering his effort to get up and not be hurt like the little engine that could but the perception of the commentators is obviously going to change peoples opinions of the jets people are going to call us lousy fans for awhile fact is we’re the best damn fans in football and about the patriot thing did you notice how much better they were in the second half? they clearly went into the locker room and figured out the defensive signals at halftime. thats sort of against the rules they’re going to lose a draft pick for this get a heavy fine and belechick should be suspended for a game or 2.

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