Giants Penalty Handed Down

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beacamdim said:
The mutual cutoff provision does not apply to this scenario (sideline to field communications -- if you lose those, tough luck). It applies only to sideline to press box communications -- when one team loses those, the other does too until the problem is resolved.
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Thanks, didn't know that. Sure seems like that's an angle which should be exploited more! We need some communication jamming devices...
 
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funkytown said:
So the league can conclude this investigation within 2 weeks, yet the Ezekiel Elliot investigation is "active and ongoing" ?
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Had to be today. The announcement of the penalty coincides with the announcement of the Pro Bowl selections.

Only it's not a coincidence.

Nobody's talking about it now, they're too busy beating their chests or tweeting about who got snubbed.
 
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beacamdim said:
They lost the AFC Championship game where New England intentionally deflated footballs. They didn't receive any compensation, and nor should the Cowboys.
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The battles that get fought around here will boggle your mind

Posters love to show off how little they know about everything
 
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beacamdim said:
They lost the AFC Championship game where New England intentionally deflated footballs. They didn't receive any compensation, and nor should the Cowboys.
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I'm confused what that has to do with the Cowboys? They too should've been compensated. The point of punishments is to make sure that no one repeats to break the rules. If there's no consequence of breaking rules what's to stop others from doing the same?
 
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beacamdim said:
Every cop, security guard and team official in my section at AT&T carries one. Not sure why you'd be surprised they'd have them at MetLife, too.

Give it up already.
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LOL, like a garden variety usher's walkie talkie could communicate with the digitally encrypted helmet speaker. If, so we could all listen in on coach to player communications like NASCAR fans. Unless the Giants rigged up a 2ndary receiver in Elli's helmet, I'm not sure how they could have communicated with him via a security guard's walkie talkie.

"The NFL has said there are some 268 million different military-grade encryption codes protecting the frequencies. And while security is strict, teams also do their due diligence to protect transmissions."
http://gizmodo.com/5937115/nfl-helmets-are-finally-using-technology-to-make-things-not-suck

I suspect it was the system hand held unit or something similar to the one in the picture in the "Gizmo" article above. The pictured hand held unit might be the "walkie talkie" that the Giants coaches were using, and if so could be the "practice" system referenced below. That system has no time limit on it and presumably could have be used by the offense and defense after the 15 second mark. There is a lot more to this than a radio shack security guard walkie talkie being used for a few plays, at least from a technical stand point.


"The "system" is actually two systems: one for games and one for practice.

The practice system consists of a receiving unit in the helmets of the players and an interface that allows the coaches -- who use a different system to communicate among themselves -- to communicate with the players.

The game system is similar but much more complex.

NFL rules only allow one player on offense -- the quarterback -- and one player on defense to be able to receive sideline communications.

A coach on the sideline has to press a button to switch from talking to his colleagues to talking to the designated player on the field. GSC's system allows that to happen instantly, whereas there used to be a one- or two-second delay."
 
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Cut off end of gameday system description.

"The rules also dictate that no communications occur after the 40-second play clock reaches the 15-second mark. To ensure teams aren't tempted to break the rules, game officials have a cut-off switch, which GSC also had to design."


http://journalstar.com/business/loc...cle_e1119219-debd-59b3-a53d-3bd9379dad6d.html

Pretty damn good contract for a small Nebraska company to land.
 
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It's more than I thought they'd get...

I figured a small fine...

I wish they would penalize cheating teams with cap penalties, maybe reduce their cap by 5-10 million for a number of years. Money means nothing to these teams, and I'm not sure if the giants lost players to free agency, if they did they be rewarded with a comp pick...
 
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Fair or not, it doesn't bother me at all seeing the NYG get penalized.
 
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