Jet's warn officials Pats had cheated
 

Guess Rex warned the refs the Patriots had cheated vs the Saints...
and got away with it.
Yet another example how the calls went their way that day.

Patriots Had Cheated Before On FGs; Jets Warned Officials

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snitches get stitches or in the NFL a gift wrapped victory against a division rival

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All 32 teams do it every week.

Even the Saints.

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Actually, the Patriots were robbed!

Were The Patriots Robbed? - ESPN Video - ESPN

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We really need to get an official clarification from the NFL about this rule, if it truly only applies to second level defenders, make it clear to ALL that is the case and eliminate/minimize confusion going forward.

Even if this is the intention of the rules, 15 yards seems like way too many yards. Maybe 5 and a first, but 15 seems retarded.

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If Graham and Meachem had caught the balls that slipped off their jerseys, we would not have been robbed of anything.

Alaska

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Amazing listening to the idiots
Did they not watch last week.We may have been partially at fault but the officials swung the game

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The ruling came out after the annual Competition Committee meeting and all teams knew about it. If Special Teams coaches didn't do their job and Coach the the new rules that is their fault.

The patriots KNEW this and Belichick has admitted it.

My guess is it was thought of as one of those rules no one was going to enforce... until it was enforced...

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One of the biggest exploits of this game is exploiting the refs.

How? Some crews wont call certain things, others will, and you can pretty much adjust your game plan around it.

The Patriots cheating goes back before Bellichek ever came into the picture, someone once said to me that right when you walk into the Patriots HOF, you see the snowplow used to clear the field to kick a game winning FG, I think this was back in the 70s or 80s, but it pretty much summed up what the Patriots organization was about.

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From what I understand the rule was revised this year. It used to be from the second tier. But they changed it to make it illegal to push no matter where you line up.