Thursday, September 20, 2007
Jets Accused of Cheating
For the past two weeks, the Jets couldn’t stay out of the controversial spotlight. The first week the Jets were involved with the notorious New England scandal. This past week the Jets were the bad guys according to Baltimore Ravens coach Brian Billick. Billick accused the Jets of trying to cheat the snap count while the Ravens were on offence.
The Jets supposedly shouted out fake and misleading snap counts while on defense to mislead the Ravens offensive line. This led to 3 offside penalties for the Ravens offensive line throughout the game. When asked about this after the game Billick commented "That's not an excuse by any stretch of the imagination. But it is illegal. Our guys have to deal with it. I don't know how to help my linemen with that because, you're in the heat of battle and you're calling the snap count, and the guy across from you is also calling a snap count - which is illegal." This all becomes a mute point, because even with these accusations the Ravens still won the game 20-13. The Ravens had 11 penalties throughout the entire game accumulating for 110 yard, while the Jets had only two penalties for 10 yards. Billick was also bitter of that last statistic saying "You have to look at the nature of the penalties. First off, the fact that we had 11 penalties and they only had two and we dominated the game," Billick said. "I have a hard time understanding that the team that was playing so well and dominating had so many penalties and the other team had only two." For the last game the Jets told on the Patriots for cheating on them, this week the Ravens tattled on the Jets for cheating on them. How’s this going to work next week?
~picture of Coach Billick from the Ravens website
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