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[QUOTE="Orangeman, post: 1470437, member: 972"]
I don't think you have that right about taping signals being legal from '00-'06.  You may be referencing a memo that REMINDED teams they were not allowed to do so, which the Patriots ignored.

From the article (excerpts):

[B]IN AUGUST 2000,[/B] before a Patriots preseason game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Jimmy Dee, the head of New England's video department, approached one of his charges, Matt Walsh, with a strange assignment: He wanted Walsh to film the Bucs' offensive and defensive signals, the arm waving and hand folding that team coaches use to communicate plays and formations to the men on the field.

Walsh later told investigators that, at the time, he didn't know the NFL game operations manual forbade taping signals.

The allegations against the Patriots prompted NFL executive vice president of football operations Ray Anderson to send a letter to all 32 team owners, general managers and head coaches on Sept. 6, 2006, reminding them that "videotaping of any type, including but not limited to taping of an opponent's offensive or defensive signals, is prohibited from the sidelines."
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