It turns out that A.J. Feeley isn't the only person who thinks the Patriots are cheaters, Browns linebacker Karlos Dansby thinks the Patriots cheat, too.
During an interview with ProFootballTalk.com on Thursday, Dansby claims that while he was with the Cardinals in 2008, there was a problem with his headset while the team was playing in New England and he doesn't think the problem was an accident.
"My headset was working fine, every game," Dansby said. "Until the very last game of the year. We get in Foxboro, they couldn't get my headset fixed, for nothing in the world."
The game against New England was Arizona's 15th game of the season, which means that the Cardinals' headsets worked perfectly for 14 games and then somehow malfunctioned in Foxborough.
"I didn't have not one problem until I went into Foxborough," Dansby said. "You can ask anybody on that team that year. We didn't have no problems with my headset until I got to Foxborough. And, man, I tell you every time I came to the sidelines, taking my helmet off trying to fix it. They was trying to fix it, they couldn't get it fixed. So we had to give hand signals, and we were dead in the water. They ran when they wanted to run, they threw it when they wanted to throw."
Not only did Dansby have trouble with his headset, Cardinals backup quarterback Matt Leinart also had trouble with his in a snowy game that Arizona would lose by 40.
After all was said and done, the Patriots totaled 512 offensive yards in a 47-7 victory against an Arizona team that would eventually play in Super Bowl XLIII.
The loss to New England was Arizona's largest of the season and Dansby definitely thinks the Patriots cheated. During his interview with PFT, the former Cardinals linebacker was asked if he thought his broken headset was an accident or something done deliberately.
"C'mon, man. C'mon," Dansby said. "It's not a secret. They gotta do what they gotta do to win, man. They gonna do what they gotta do to win. It's just how they operate."
The Patriots were in the thick of the AFC playoff race in 2008, but ended up not making the postseason, despite an 11-5 record.
Dansby's cheating claim is the second one against the Patriots this week.
On Wednesday, Feeley said he saw Tom Brady using 'illegal' footballs during a game in 2004. However, Brady has nothing to do with the latest cheating claim. The Patriots quarterback didn't play against the Cardinals because he sat out the final 15 games of the 2008 season after tearing his ACL in Week 1.
