They were punished because there is an NFL rule against a team videotaping from the opponent’s sidelines. Wrong place, wrong time = punishment.

May the pissburgh stoolers crumple like aluminium! hehehe!

I believe that every NFL team has its skeletons. Patriots “spygate”, Broncos cap errors, etc. etc.

I’m going to research if it was more widespread, I’m not totally convinced it was but I am willing to withold jugement until I dig a little deeper. And I don’t mean I’ll just research the internet because there is a lot of crap out there.

Also welcome to MHR. Keep up the good work over at Behind the Steel Curtain

No, but singling out the Steelers and saying tsk tsk on them doesn’t make any sense.

That’s exactly right, which makes the former disagreement regarding the Pats kind of pointless. Many coaches in the league and not a small number of players admitted that their teams did the same that the Pats did – they just didn’t get caught.

While it’s become fashionable to blame the videotaping for the Pats success, it’s a thin excuse. Bill Belichick and Ernie Adams, his assistant, are just two of the best in the league at breaking down film and analyzing weaknesses that they can exploit.

Belichick grew up in a football family, his father wrote a book on scouting and was justifiably famous for his skill at that craft and Steve Belichick taught his skills to Bill. Bill B took it to an even higher level. Belichick and Adams used to break down film when they were in their early teens and both got into the NFL by being unusually talented at doing so. They are also superb at preparing their team, year after year. That is why they keep winning. Belichick’s studies of economics and his application of econ theory to the salary cap, as well as how he’s put together his teams, has also led to a continued advantage. I put together more on that here and here.

Belichick gets a lot of criticism from people that he has kept beating over the years. That’s to be expected, but in the end, he’s just extremely good at his job. The Steelers are a great organization and have had many great teams, but Belichick has been excellent at finding and exploiting their weaknesses. This Monday will tell us if Josh McDaniels was able to use that same information or not – should be a great game.

GREAT player.

So I’m learning a lot as I do my research and I might have to do a full on fanpost if anybody would be interested. It would not just be about the Steelers but about the history of steroid us in the NFL.

At this point I will say that most likely every team had at least one player utilizing steroids in the 70’s, However, there is more evidence about more Steelers taking them. Is this because it was more prevalent with the Steelers or was it because we care more about them cause they were a dynasty and nobody cares if the Buccaneers of the 70’s used steroids because they started like 2-26.

But as a tease I will leave you with this. My article will begin with an assistant in 1963 who worked for….the San Diego Chargers. There also was another assistant on that SD staff in 1963, and he was a young Chuck Noll.

which to me is the most important thing, and rather than just on dink and dunk passes he’s accurate on mid-range, middle of the field and sideline passes too which are key. So he doesn’t have a cannon but he has a stronger arm than people think, which is my point.

And some of us here joked about Simms comments being partially because his son is the Broncos backup QB, and does have a strong arm. So he may have been biased. ;-)