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Teams vote in their own interest
Posted by ESPN.com's Mike Sando The seven teams that voted against arming defensive players with radio headsets share one thing in common: head coaches with backgrounds on offense. The league has 16 head coaches with defensive backgrounds, 15 with offensive backgrounds and one -- Baltimore's John Harbaugh -- with primarily a special-teams background. Green Bay, Oakland, Philadelphia, St. ...
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Rams vote 'no' on radios for defense
Turf Show Times — ... The Rams, for what it's worth, voted against the radios for the defense. Hmm. Not much to read into it here, as Mike Sando explains in the link above, the Rams have an offensive guy for a head coach. ...

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