McAfee says sign stealing can be a 'WEAPON' for coaches | The Pat McAfee Show

let's listen to coach team Mitch here defensive coordinator for the Arkansas Razer backs and if you do recall he's the one the freestyled in front of the team and they all said yeah coach in the middle of it had them all bought in here's what he had to say about s once again remember dog on the football field as a player now defense coordinator in college oh a lot like it's so funny you'll be shocked during the week I know offense all around the country they going to look at they going to get the TV copy and they looking at the signals yeah just one person that's your only job look at the signals and then boom Oh we can't get we can't get the defensive signals okay well let's see what the defensive players are signaling then they then they'll try to get it that way you know so they got different ways I I remember we played um Louisville and um and he was really good and I saw the TV copy and I could just see the whole time he's just like this just watching watching watching in the halftime they got your signal I so we played him next year I was at UCF we played him that next year and I got his contact and I called him like Hey man I need to and he sent me the whole thing he said this what we had it was like 80% correct so we had to change our signals because they just pass it around so they're just send it to the to the next so we play SMU and red Lashley them and they had the same signals I wouldn't mad that he sent it around I would have been mad if we didn't change it so it's it's huge like just signal and it's perfectly legal I know teams right now they have two guys on the field cuz you usually have them in the box so you know at the times you see a lot of these teams behind the actual team they got these they pull out these big curtains behind it if it wasn't important they wouldn't be doing it every a lot of 80% of the teams in America when they sign they pull out the big curtain behind so the guys in the Press Box can't get them well they done smart up they put them on the field so they got two guys and they just sit here and try to get it so you got to have ways of of H of hiding your signals you know so you can always know like when a play happen you go hey man they got our signals cuz is like the perfect play you just know um all over college football so that's not me it's nothing new it's not one of those deals where it's like unethical or something like that like they do it you just if you're crazy enough to keep the same signals that's on you that's Coach T will I call it t Mitch that's 100% on me but Coach T will basically breaking down I think what every former player had to say about the sign stealing I think why the Connor stallion thing happened is because the advanced scouting rule that was in place and I I think if you were to watch this Untold entirely the he's saying that he exploited the rules like I wasn't at the game there was no coaches at the game it was other people were they family friends H uh so I didn't know some of the people that were there but sign stealing has been happening since the beginning the conversation now from the coach to the quarterback and the ability to call into play to the Mike linebacker they're obviously still going to use signs but this entire thing of signal stealing is a weapon if you have a guy that's very good on it uh good at it on your team and Conor alion might have been the guy who was considered the greatest of all time which leads me to saying that Harbaugh could literally not know that he was paying people were buying tickets and sending people going forward Harbaugh could have definitely thought to himself though I got a good sign stealer on my sideline because every team has been looking for those since signs have been given in any sport seemingly yeah like like coach said like Coach T will said um you know you got to change him and at the same time we use I mean this is going to be quads like you know certain these are going to be seen like guess certain thing Brady had a signal he would go like this and that meant the outside receiver going up the slot receivers breaking out and he did it for 20 years so like you can have signals you got to execute like I think somebody else a tip when Trent Williams and it's a Runners when it's you got to execute so like we we would have I've never been on a team where we didn't have a guy who gave us signals who gave us offensive signals hey this this is what they get it from the TV copy they'll get it from across the field sometime you'll have three guys doing the signals and one guy is the real guy the other two are just smokees screen so it's always you know it's it's gamesmanship it's it's going on week in and week out if you're not cheating you're not trying but at the end of the day you got to execute we played pton Manning the first time he came back here obviously Reggie has spent a bunch of time with him and these quarterbacks you know Aaron pton Drew Tom all these guys they carry a lot of that same over and they're more concerned about their guys been on the same page having the signal so they're not going to out Trick themselves defense you can have all you want Reggie will tell us this that and the third but hey don't get too caught up on this because he'll go and change it and make sure you hear them call it and you like hey this is coming and then they'll have some other option uh perfectly drawn up so it's always been a part of the game it is literally people's job to do it usually it's a quality control guy or whoever um what are they call gr gr G on the college level so it's always somebody but at the end of the day you got to execute you got to get it done between downs and more importantly you got to be on the same page with your guys that we're doing what we need to be doing in quads coverage or in cover two or in cover three whatever that is the the the way the story was out was as if it was out of a novel in a movie and then we're listening to it it kind of it kind of is and I think in Conor stallion's head he was beating a rule with the advanced scouting he wasn't I wasn't telling if they sent it to me they sent it to me if I saw it I saw it and then he'd be able to put together a signed board for who they're playing against I mean it's like all those things that it just it feels like they want too you want too far yeah you just went you went you just went to we're all trying to do it but what you you just went you know you took advantage and I think Conor St say that my fault is that your fault who's saying where the line is is like what Conor stallion's question is because if the rule says that I can't go or that coaches can't go it doesn't say about somebody I made on the internet that I just got tickets for and if they want to happen to record some stuff and send it to me even though I didn't tell him that right asked the lawyer I didn't say to my understanding yep okay I did that very fascinating this whole situation I'll be intrigued to see what the NCAA does with the punishment because you potentially open a Pandora's Box for people to go back about to sign stuff especially with what Coach T will just said right there and yeah we we saw Michigan play football last year like boots on the ground we saw him I think a couple games we see Arkansas Arkansas what was their record you know every great everybody's doing it but you got to go out there and ex you got to have the players you got to have the scheme everybody's doing and Conor definitely found some loopholes and he went a little maybe too far but it will be it it was interesting on that on my ex at least it was like people were split right down the M oh Harbaugh definitely knew Harbaugh had no idea so I I'm interested to see once I watched Conor St got game ball against the Hawks he did and it kind of just you know reinforced uh my beliefs that you know I mean we were cheated obviously I mean he was he was no but it really I mean like we've talked about this it's a perfect example just of you know pigs get fed Hogs get slaughtered because if you would have just continued to kind of do it how everyone else is doing it I'm sure you know then whatever you maybe get a slap on a wrist but like the smoke and gun really when it I I feel like when it kind of got to be like a massive deal is when they had that him you know like dressed up on the central Michigan sideline it's like okay well if he's doing stuff like this like maybe that is you know he's not just having one of his buddies record signals at a different game it's like this dude who is a staffer for Michigan is on a different University sideline you know like what the hell is he doing there I feel like that's when it was really like okay something needs to be done about this gu and also you know and we said about we said this last year during the coverage of it all and our show was used a lot in that documentary I didn't know that was coming uh so that's why we ran their too without asking so you know we can fair play play good on you and I think we might have Maverick Carter uh who's one of the executive producers on it uh on this week at some point to chitchat a little bit more about the entirety of the story but it became the thing that took over College talk and it's like even if Harbaugh didn't know they reaped the benefit of it you know like they re they certainly reaped the benefit of everything that was happening which is why the punishment is going to have to happen at some point and did happen at time but for their team not to blink after all that imagine if they were able to continue to know everybody's signals like did they have a backup signal guy because every other team they were playing against going forward certainly had people trying to decipher signals did Michigan have no signal people because they weren't allowed as they went on to win it's almost like wait a minute was it more impressive now that they weren't able to do anything we shall see joining us now is a guy who probably knows a little bit about this because in the NFL this is happening as well in the NFL there are certainly guys that make teams and are on Sidelines because they have a very good understanding of what's happening on the other side of the field now coaches obviously are expected to know this type of stuff but if you have a quarterback or a player or a ga that understands what hand signals are for coverage on the back side of the other one and can see it get it in and get it to the quarterback before that 15-second uh time Lim where they can't talk anymore what an advantage [Music]