Orlando Scandrick, the former Cowboys, Chiefs and Eagles cornerback, appeared on The Herd with Colin Cowherd earlier this week to talk about various topics around the league.
While discussing the latest controversy involving the Patriots — Scandrick dropped an interesting nugget about what the Patriots used to do or possibly still do to this day.
According to Scandrick, the Patriots sent an employee of the team to the visiting team’s hotel to look for anything that was left behind by players, coaches, or anybody connected to the team.
That sounds vaguely familiar to what Pats’ employees stated during the Spygate era in a 2015 Outside the Lines story.
Via OTL:
In fact, many former New England coaches and employees insist that the taping of signals wasn’t even the most effective cheating method the Patriots deployed in that era. Several of them acknowledge that during pregame warm-ups, a low-level Patriots employee would sneak into the visiting locker room and steal the play sheet, listing the first 20 or so scripted calls for the opposing team’s offense. (The practice became so notorious that some coaches put out fake play sheets for the Patriots to swipe.)
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The patriots have been a highly successful franchise over the past 20 years, but they have always been marred in controversies surrounding their wins and what they would do to obtain them en route to a Super Bowl.
