WEEK 1 NFL GAME THREAD - Other Games

[denverYooper]

The Patriot defense looks a lot more vulnerable without Revis.

And Wilfork.

[pbmax]

Dear Pittsburgh D,

Watch out for 87. He's good.

Sincerely,

Everyone else watching football

[King Friday]

I'm not sure how a guy as big as Gronk is continually left uncovered by the Steelers.

[pbmax]

Not at TD on fumble recovery.

[King Friday]

Nope...no TD there. They are 1 foot out.

[King Friday]

Well, I can't complain...I have Brady on my fantasy team this year. haha

[Guiness]

So many uncovered receivers for both teams.

And speaking of stinky, DHB was doing nothing to help on what was pretty much a game ending INT.

[smuggler]

Roethlisberger deserved that one. Nothing DHB could have done would have broken it up. Just a dumb throw.

[pbmax]

DHB did just about curl up and die before getting a first down earlier. But not sure he could have gotten back to that INT. Maybe fight back through DB and get flag like Miller did in end zone.

However, mostly it was Big Ben getting fooled by a single high safety who was weakside but rolled coverage over to playside just before the snap. Ben never saw him coming and lofted it for jump ball to DHB.

[pbmax]

@AP_NFL: Steelers coaches mad during first half that headsets weren't working properly. The Latest: http://t.co/y0LqeQYHxZ #PITvsNE

Steelers coaches say they were hearing Patriots radio in headsets

League security chief Jeff Miller was shown on the sidelines asking questions, and it didn’t look like they were about the Ideal Gas Law.

UPDATE 9:16 p.m. ET: According to Michele Tafoya, the Patriots headsets were taken down while league officials checked into it, and the issue was apparently resolved quickly.

Report from AP was time stamped 9:25 so their info might be more detailed.

[pbmax]

Scott Kacsmar @FO_ScottKacsmar 12m12 minutes ago
Tomlin clearly pissed over radio communication. Says it happens all the time in that building. Put it on NE. @AriF44

SiriusXM NFL Radio @SiriusXMNFL
Patriots do not control the headsets. The NFL does. I once had a woman from the concession stand in my headsets at Fed EX field. - Mills

[smuggler]

Welp

[pbmax]

Steelers double down on the charge that the Patriots were responsible for the outage.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/09/11/steelers-website-makes-strong-claim-about-headsetgate/

“This is the kind of stuff that happens to the visiting team in Gillette Stadium all the time,” the article said. “From the start of the game through the opening 14 minutes of the first quarter, the Steelers’ coaches’ headsets were receiving the Patriots Radio Network broadcast of the game. The broadcast was so loud that the Steelers coaches were unable to communicate, and the NFL rule is that if one team’s headsets are not working the other team is supposed to be forced to take their headsets off. It’s what the NFL calls the Equity Rule. Strangely enough, whenever an NFL representative proceeded to the New England sideline to shut down their headsets, the Steelers headsets cleared. Then as the representative walked away from the New England sideline, the Steelers’ headsets again started to receive the Patriots game broadcast.”

Original article here: http://www.steelers.com/news/article...d-e9e9aee21c5f

[Cheesehead Craig]

Why don't teams simply use a recording device on a set of headsets and submit that to the league if it happens so much. Get some documented proof.

[Pugger]

Does this kind of crap happen in other stadiums or only in NE?