So Much for the "Pats are the only ones" bull -- Jimmy Johnson Admits to Taping Signals

Jimmy Johnson openly admits to taping signals, and says "so did a lot
of other teams in the league," openly saying "a lot of coaches did it,
this was commonplace."

http://www.bostonherald.com/blogs/sports/patriots/?p=2202&srvc=home&position=recent

This one slipped through the cracks, but during Super Bowl week,
former Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson told WFAN that he used cameras to
steal signals all the time.

Q: How about the spying thing Jimmy. You're a coach does that bother
you what Belichick did?

JJ: Oh please. I've said it on our show. Eighteen years ago a scout
for the Chiefs told me what they did, and he said what you need to do
is just take your camera and you go and zoom in on the signal caller
and that way you can sync it up. The problem is that if they're not on
the press box side you can't do it from the press box, you have to do
it from the sideline. This was 18 years ago.

Q: You think the NFL came down too hard on them?

JJ: No, no, I said it on the show. He was wrong for doing it for the
simple reason that the league knew this was going on not just in New
England but around the league. And the league sent out the memorandum
to all of the teams saying you cannot do this. And so that's when Bill
Belichick was wrong. After he got the memorandum saying don't do it
any more, he did it.

Q: Did you ever steal signals?

JJ: Oh in a heartbeat, yeah. Yes I did.

Q: Via video, Jimmy? Or no?

JJ: Oh yeah, I did it with video and so did a lot of other teams in
the league. Just to make sure that you could study it and take your
time, because you're going to play the other team the second time
around. But a lot of coaches did it, this was commonplace.

Q: But did you do it by taping the signal caller?

JJ: Yeah.

Q: Oh you did.

JJ: That's what I'm saying. I was saying one of Marty Schottenheimer's
scouts, Mark Hatley, who has passed away now, Mark told me that's how
they did it, and Howard Mudd their offensive line coach with Kansas
City, who now coaches for Tony Dungy, he was the best in the entire
league at stealing signals.

Q: Where'd you put your guy who was videotaping? Where was he?

JJ: My guy was up with my camera crew in the press box. So you'd just
put an extra camera up with your camera crew in the press box who
zoomed in on the signal callers. That's the best way to do it, but
anyway you can't always do that because the press box camera crew
might be on the same side as the opposing team. If they're on the same
side as the opposing team that's when you need to do it from the
sideline.
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