Communication issues are no stranger to Gillette Stadium and Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid said his team had headset problems there on Saturday.
Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid said following his team’s 27-20 loss to the New England Patriots on Saturday that his team dealt with malfunctioning headsets during the game.
Reid did point out that the issue happened in the first half, and not during the final minutes which decided the outcome of the game. The head coach claimed the problem was sending messages in to quarterback Alex Smith and he stated the radio cut out “just a little bit, not much.”
For Reid and his team, they may have felt the issue was nothing out of the ordinary, but that’s never the case when the New England Patriots are involved. The team suffered serious backlash in 2007 from the “Spygate” investigation where they were disciplined by the NFL for videotaping defensive signals from the New York Jets sidelines.
In the most recent NFL offseason, the headlines were again full of an alleged conspiracy, the “Deflategate” saga in which quarterback Tom Brady was accused of having members of the Patriots staff tamper with footballs, making them easier to grip.
As far as headset issues go, this isn’t the first time this season someone claimed to have a problem in Gillette Stadium, the home of the Patriots. Fresh off the full offseason backlash of the tampered football issue, there was a complaint made by the Pittsburgh Steelers that during the first game of the 2015 season, their headsets were playing the Patriots radio broadcast of the game they were playing.
For what it’s worth, Steelers coach Mike Tomlin was less understanding than Reid was.