Quote:do you go around bragging about how often you go over the speed limit or roll through stop signs?

 

I think the stop sign/speed limit analogy doesn't work here.  But I understand your point, I think...  I don't want to put words in your mouth, but you're basically saying that this infraction is a minor one.  Right?  I guess that could be argued as a valid point.

 

But...  I think the main issue here is that the "everyone" is doing it excuse doesn't hold if you find 1 team is NOT doing it.  The clots didn't do it...  So the argument get's thrown out as invalid.  Also, the Ravens, from articles I read, were also not doing it because they tipped off the clots to it too...  At least from an article I read.

 

So that right there are 2 teams that apparently don't do what Jeff Blake is asserting is done across the league.  If doing something against the rules is only done by 1 side, it gives an unfair advantage, and thus is considered cheating.  Even is the unfair advantage is perceived as being a minor unfair advantage.  In a game like the NFL where inches make all the difference, there is no such thing as a "minor" unfair advantage.

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