Only took one game,
Pittsburgh coach Mike Tomlin isn't saying the Patriots messed around with the Steeler coaches' headsets in the first half.
He's just saying, you know, it does seem to happen a lot when he plays in New England.
"We were listening to the Patriots radio broadcast for the majority of the first half on our headsets," Tomlin said after New England beat the Steelers 28-21 on Thursday night in the NFL opener.
Responding to a report on the TV broadcast that the Pittsburgh coaches lost the ability to talk over their headsets, Tomlin said, "That's always the case."
"Here?" a reporter asked.
"Yes," Tomlin said.
The ESPN Outside the Lines story;
"At Gillette Stadium, the scrambling and jamming of the opponents’ coach-to-quarterback radio line — “small s—” that many teams do, according to a former Pats assistant coach — occurred so often that one team asked a league official to sit in the coaches’ box during the game and wait for it to happen. Sure enough, on a key third down, the headset went out."