How bout them skins?

[Maengelito]

i dont think the hand signal stealing is really the issue at hand. its the video taping of the hand signals thats illegal. in baseball, players try to steal signals all the time, but then the pitchers and bench coaches will just change it up and basically nullify the stolen info. but you arent setting up plays that are nearly as complex in baseball. if the catcher shows 1 finger for fastball and the opposing team catches on to that, the catcher can show many different hand signals or have an "indicator" to tell the pitcher which of his 3 or 4 different pitches to throw. but defenses in football are well choreographed and tipping off what defensive play basically gives the offense a free play.

i believe currently, the only player on the field thats allowed to have a communicator in his helmet is the quarterback. there was a discussion of allowing the defensive captains to also have one next season and bill bellicheat is one of the coaches to voted to not allow that. that seems kinda shady to me.