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Saints, Dolphins deal with communication issues at start of game

LONDON -- The NFL announced during the second quarter that it had fixed the communication issues that plagued the New Orleans Saints and Miami Dolphins for the first quarter of Sunday's game at Wembley Stadium.

According to the league, the Dolphins' coach-to-player communication system wasn't working at the start of the game due to a frequency issue, so the football operations department "enacted an equity shutdown" of both systems. The problem didn't extend to the coach-to-coach audio channel.

Coach Sean Payton was visibly frustrated on the sideline with being unable to relay plays from his headset to quarterback Drew Brees' helmet.