The initial playbook itself is actually quite thin, and that's by design. "I don't put a lot of graduate-level information in it," Pettine says. "We know in places like New England, it's only a matter of time that they somehow mysteriously end up with our playbook."
Pettine told a story of how, at Wes Welker's wedding, Tom Brady bragged a little bit to Jets outside linebackers coach Mike Smith, who was Welker's college roommate, that the Patriots may or may not have had possession of a couple Jets defensive playbooks.
"It didn't shock me because Rex would give them out like candy anyway," Pettine says. "He gave one out to [Alabama coach Nick] Saban and I was like, "Don't you know Saban and Bill [Belichick] are pretty good friends? I have a feeling it's going to end up in New England.'"
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