Jets busted doing a Belichick
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This is just too rich.
The Jets were caught videotaping at Gillette Stadium last season and the Patriots had that New York employee removed from the area, according to published reports Wednesday. Jets coach Eric Mangini said his team received permission to film behind both end zones during the playoff game in January. source
Cliché time. What goes around stinks for the other guy too. Or something like that.
When asked why the Patriots stopped the Jets if they had already given them permission, Mangini just shrugged.
“I don’t know,” he said. “Really, it just was what it was. We had asked for permission, it was granted and then that changed, and we respect their decision. It’s their stadium.”
Mangini was also asked if the Jets were, at all, taping the Patriots’ defensive signals.
“No,” Mangini said smugly.
Right. Right. Right on.
You remember last year.
This is just the latest in the long-running rivalry between the teams. After helping Belichick and the Patriots win three Super Bowls as a defensive assistant, Mangini left to become coach of the Jets. The relationship between the two has been frosty since.
Things got even chillier after a Patriots video assistant was caught taping from the sidelines during their game against the Jets in Week 1, a move some speculated fueled New England’s drive to perfection. The NFL punished the Patriots by taking away their first-round draft pick, fined them $250,000 and fined Belichick another $500,000.
A league rule prohibits teams from using a video camera on the sidelines for any purpose. In the Jets’ case, they were filming from the end zone. The Jets film from both end zones during practice, a common procedure used by NFL teams.
Man, can’t wait for the Jets/Pats game. It should be just a little testy out there.
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