The New England Patriots notched a 34-31 victory Sunday over the Houston Texans thanks in large part to their ability to adjust to the Texans' defensive game plan, but was the Patriots' ability to snuff out Houston's game plan too good? Defensive end Antonio Smith admitted that he was "very suspicious" about the Patriots' success on Sunday afternoon.
Smith believed that the Patriots' ability to adjust just seemed too good that it had him raising his eyebrows following the loss.
"Either teams are spying on us or scouting us," Smith said after the game, according to ESPN.
The report indicates that Smith said that the Texans implemented new techniques to their defense this week and that even though the team had implemented the new strategies in prior games the Patriots still saw them coming despite none of the new plans ever being on film. Smith eluded that the Patriots knew plays were coming before they even happened.
"I'm very suspicious," Smith said per ESPN. "I just think it will be a big coincidence if that just happened by chance. I don't know for sure, but I just know it was something that we practiced this week."
Smith didn't go any further to specify what exactly the Patriots did that tipped him off, but Houston marched out to a 10-point lead at halftime before allowing 27 second-half points to eventually lose the game.
"I can't tell you an example because it's G15 classified," Smith said per ESPN. "It's a defensive thing that we might continue to use. ... The way, I'm trying to say it without giving it away. When you watch film of the team do something a certain way all the time no matter what team they play -- it's been 12 games played and they always did it -- and then all of a sudden it's changed? It was pretty clever and pretty suspicious."
Smith was asked point blank if the Patriots, who have been accused of spying in the past with the whole "Spygate" scandal, knew what the Texans were doing on defense even though their new strategies never appeared in game before.
"I'm saying it seemed like it," Smith told ESPN. "You can't never be for sure on anything because I ain't over there in their huddle, in their locker room, but it just felt like it."
The Patriots improved to 9-3 Sunday while the Texans fell to 2-10 in the loss, which was their 10th in a row.
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