NFL coaching legend, Mike Shanahan has never been shy about speaking his mind so when he made an appearance on “The Dan Patrick Show” he did just that. Coach Shanahan was asked a question referring to assigning a lip reader on the sidelines during games and while he didnt mention the recent scandal in the NFL he did say one interesting thing… everyone stole signals.
“I’ll be honest with you, back then, everybody was trying to steal signals,” Shanahan said. “You could take 10, 15 teams, and I could tell you some of the best quarterbacks in the league had different cue cards from the sideline — depending on what defense or blitz — and tried to do everything they could.
“Of course, now they went to investigating about relative — did they video, was that in the best interest of the game and things along those lines. They looked at that for a lot of years, and they came up with obviously a final verdict. When I look at those things, I look at them as the past, because I could go back and tell you a hundred different stories and I don’t think we need to reflect back then.”
Im sure old school coaches did something that they wouldn’t speak of in lieu of “Spygate”. Compared to older coaches, you have to wonder the scale of Belichick damages.
H/T NESN.com