The main theme's at todays practice were: players reaction to the New England videotaping scandal, the addition of Donovin Darius and Lamont Thompson and Joey Porter giving his opinion.
Most of the players and coaches didn't seem concerned with teams stealing signs, Jason Taylor went as far to say "you can tell them what we run, it comes down to executing your defense."
I say "most" because Porter took the opportunity to cast doubt on the Pats playoff victories of his former team, the Pittsburgh Steelers. "They went from bad to very good, that makes you wonder,"Porter said. I like Porter, but I think J.T. said it best "they don't need to cheat, their so frickin good."
Also it's not like teams don't steal signs anyways, the Pats just archived it, Channing Crowder even gave an example of knowing what play is coming and stopping it for no gain.
Coach Cam Cameron plead ignorance to ever being on a team that stole signals, but acknowledge that he's not "naive" and he's sure it goes on with other teams.
Most of the team seemed happy with the addition of Darius and Thompson, but you can't really expect anything else. I like Cameron's plan of bringing in two veteran safety's to guard against injury and/or ineffective play in the secondary, which has been a staple of this defense for some time.
News and Notes
RB Jesse Chatman didn't practice--Sore Ankle--
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