Two things strike me as discordant in this...if the fuss is about anything more than being open about violating a rule...are that we a) have people coming forward suggesting that the Patriots have been doing this repeatedly, and b) that they haven’t taken the simple steps to make it untenable, such as simple variants of the method that Parcells suggests.
I have been overly busy the last week or so, and actually just learned of this whole thing tonight from this thread. What did Parcells have to say about it?