Comments on: Santana Moss wondering if Umbrella Man lurks nearby

By: wildbill1952

wildbill1952 — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 02:37:45 +0000

I remember Jason Campbell and this exact same story. The evidence is anecdotal but it has happened to the Skins a number of times

By: fdugrad

fdugrad — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 02:17:55 +0000

Kind of raises John Unitas calling all his offensive plays himself to God-like status eh? Boy the mold was broken and then some when Mr. U. and the position of quarterback met on the field of play. What a professional!

By: skinsfan91

skinsfan91 — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 23:29:43 +0000

Kyle Shanahan can’t stop running his favorite Madden plays? What does that even mean? What RGIII never completed a pass until the end of the game? I love how idiots try to sound smart by saying things that don’t mean anything. Every idiot on here thinks they know more about football than Kyle Shanahan. If so then why aren’t you coaching college football or something?

By: tannethrill

tannethrill — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 19:49:41 +0000

Like others have said, it’s easy and really kind of too easy. Especially with the amount of technology we carry around with us and it’s acceptance in stadiums.

An upstart league would be smart to put the play calling in the players hands. The QBs that thrive as backups in the NFL would thrive there as truly intelligent athletes.

By: TheWizard

TheWizard — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 19:38:09 +0000

Steve Grogan called all his own plays.

If any coaches believe in the conspiracy, they’d better have their QB prepared to deal with it. Anything else is bad coaching.

By: feeshta

feeshta — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 18:32:03 +0000

You know, it’s perfectly possible it’s not even the team doing it, but rather some tech savy fan. It happens too frequently, and at too coincidentally opportune times to be written off.

By: omegalh

omegalh — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 18:25:56 +0000

Visitors have been getting bad 4th quarter reception in Foxborough since about the year 2000. Not a new story.

By: mintberrycrunch1

mintberrycrunch1 — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 18:09:54 +0000

Why does Darin act like this isn’t plausible? We all know teams will do whatever they think they can get away with to get an advantage. The NFL should be responsible for all team headsets, not the home team/home stadium. If this didn’t happen frequently on 4th quarter drives to away teams, then there would be no suspicion, right?

By: EJ

EJ — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 18:06:19 +0000

I think paranoia struck Santana Moss upside his head.

By: borophyll

borophyll — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 18:04:22 +0000

Somehow John Elway and Joe Montana managed to become legendary clutch performers without headsets in their helmet. Figure it out.

By: straightcash844

straightcash844 — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 17:58:20 +0000

Ummm is Santana really not realizing that having no headset gave the offense an opportunity to run real plays and not Kyle Shanahan’s favorite Madden plays? Pretty sure Griffin was 3-3 on the drive with a run of about 15 yards…

By: pottymouth777

pottymouth777 — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 17:57:58 +0000

Jamming headset frequencies is not that difficult.

Consider what’s at stake here and what’s to be gained.

By: skinsfaninnebraska

skinsfaninnebraska — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 17:51:55 +0000

jmsincla says:Oct 2, 2012 1:32 PM

perfect example of confirmation bias… the only time anyone brings up confirmation bias and headsets is when one reads an article about headsets going out during the game winning drive, case closed.

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Case closed, you say? Let’s look at this for a moment:

The headset system is usually reliable and seldom fails, and in fact on the day in question has worked perfectly all afternoon, except, hmmmmmm…in the last 1:42 of a game where the visiting team has a rookie QB and needs a field goal to win?

No, nothing at all suspicious about that.

By: londonfletcher59

londonfletcher59 — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 17:45:08 +0000

“brianforster says:
Oct 2, 2012 1:14 PM
perfect example of confirmation bias… the only time anyone brings up a headset failure is when its during a game winning drive, case closed.”

That would be the most opportune time for it to happen, don’t you think?

It’s no excuse for the team to not have a good drive, if you have a smart QB and hand signals, but I fully believe teams can and will do that.

By: qdog112

qdog112 — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 17:45:06 +0000

“Moss then re-affixed the tin foil lining he keeps in his helmet.”
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The only people who don’t want you to believe in conspiracies are the one engaged in them. Of course they exist.

Perhaps the greatest feat of a conspirator, is to convince everyone else that conspiracies don’t exist.

By: gettingpwned

gettingpwned — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 17:39:31 +0000

And if someone did it after a loss you would say they’re a shiner and tell them to get over it. There’s no pleasing people. Then again, most people are morons.

By: jmsincla

jmsincla — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 17:32:38 +0000

perfect example of confirmation bias… the only time anyone brings up confirmation bias and headsets is when one reads an article about headsets going out during the game winning drive, case closed.

By: granadafan

granadafan — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 17:31:06 +0000

Gee, how did teams ever communicate on the field before headsets and radios? How do high schools, colleges, and baseball managers communicate to players?? It’s called hand signals, ya dummy. Use them.

By: brianforster

brianforster — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 17:14:58 +0000

perfect example of confirmation bias… the only time anyone brings up a headset failure is when its during a game winning drive, case closed.

By: cali49er707

cali49er707 — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 17:07:37 +0000

Santana Moss wondering if Umbrella Man lurks nearby
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I thought Tom Benson owned the Saint’s & Mr. Peanut was just fictional.