After the Green Bay Packers defeated the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, quarterback Aaron Rodgers claimed that he saw something on the stadium Jumbotron that “sometimes they shouldn’t show” and he passed that along to his defense, which helped them stop a two-point conversation attempt that could have won the game for Tom Brady and the Bucs.
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What does this mean? pic.twitter.com/DqOaTo2go8
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“Well they showed it on the previous play, too,” Rodgers said after the game. “It was a delay on both plays. Sometimes you see things in the game. Sometimes the Jumbotron shows things they probably shouldn’t show, even at home. I saw something, (and) I just passed on the information.”
De’Vondre Campbell for the win. Huge play pic.twitter.com/KQm9PPbGPx
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On Monday, Buccaneers head coach Todd Bowles was asked about it and said that he is talking to his ops people about what to show and not to show on the sideline.
#Bucs HC Todd Bowles says he’s meeting with the operations team later this afternoon to discuss the image on the Jumbotron that may give the #Packers an advantage on the 2-point conversion. pic.twitter.com/ZgOJH9RevM
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Rodgers made his weekly appearance on The Pat McAfee Show on Tuesday and was asked about what, exactly, he saw on the big screen, and whether or not it was indeed helpful for the Packers’ defense.
“The Jumbotron is interesting because you want to show replay but there’s been times where the replay starts to play but then someone says ‘oh wait, hold on hold on, turn that off!’ because it would be potentially a reviewable play.
“The questions seem to be ‘what were you talking to Matt [LaFluer] about?’ down there on the two-minute drive. That’s what I was referring to. S during that drive, I realized we were past the point of probably needing a timeout.
“About four or five plays before…well before the two-point conversation. I did see something on the Jumbotron and I went down and relayed that to Matt. I’m not gonna get into exactly what I saw or if it even had a real impact on the play. I think that’s kind of inconsequential. But I thought I saw something, I walked over to Matt. Whether that got relayed to [DC] Joe [Barry] or not, I’m not sure. Either way, it had nothing to do with the two-point conversion. There was not an image of the Microsoft Surface or anything like that. That would have been pretty funny though.”
McAfee pushed back on the notion that Rodgers had inadvertently admitted he intercepted one of Tampa Bay’s signals, but Rodgers adamantly responded, “No.”
Regardless, it sure sounds like Tampa (and other NFL teams) are going to take a closer look at their Jumbotron videos during games and what shouldn’t go up there.
