Deflate-Gate: Here We Go Again

[Joey007]

So Bill Polian, Mike Florio and John Harbaugh are our saviors today.

No words.

Who's next. Rob Parker? Don Shula?

Ray Lewis?!

 

[Big-T]

So Bill Polian, Mike Florio and John Harbaugh are our saviors today.

No words.

Who next? Ratgini?!

The common theme here though: People who actually know the game say it's no big deal, mediots whip it up into a scandal.

 

[SVN]

http://www.csnne.com/new-england-patriots/tanguay-blame-brady-not-belichick Tanguay...ugh

 

[King Brady]

For the life of me i cannot figure out why the brad johnson superbowl bribe story is not bigger than this. This is insane

 

[Jackson 2]

This is a legit concern because initially the talking heads over spygate were talking about loss of a 3rd or 4th, as what happened to the Broncos. When everything amped up, that's when the NFL came down hard.

I guess I should have made myself clearer: if they felt they needed to see how the media and public at large would react to leaked news indicating the Patriots had played fast and loose with the rules, then they must have been living under a rock since September of 2007.

 

[BradyManny]

What remains interesting is that NFL.com has still yet to report on this new report.

I feel like if this were to be all on the Patriots for deliberately doing this, they would allow the reports to at least be posted. I feel like the fact that nothing has been posted might mean it is more of a potential league issue than anything. But who knows..

Somebody in the league is leaking stuff. Probably b/c there's one or two nitwits who hates the Pats in that office who would love to see us taken down a peg - and priming the mediots and witch-hunters is the best way to do that.

One thing is for sure, the NFL is investigating this with far more sincerity than they did Ray Rice nearly murdering his wife. I'm glad they have their priorities straight

 

[Efstratios]

http://www.csnne.com/new-england-patriots/tanguay-blame-brady-not-belichick Tanguay...ugh

Is this gonna bring those "BRADY IS DONE, START JIMMY G" people who left the board after the Cincy game back out of the woodwork ,

 

[Joey007]

For the life of me i cannot figure out why the brad johnson superbowl bribe story is not bigger than this. This is insane

We're the Patriots. We apparently deliberately cheated before. So we must be cheaters again.

 

[Ivan]

Kind of OT, but I had no idea about this.



http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1999-01-08/sports/9901081036_1_tom-coughlin-jaguars-bill-parcells

Can you imagine any team doing such a thing in 2014? They should get murdered by the media much worse than with this ridiculous DeflateGate.

It would be GateGate.

Yep. The truth of the matter is that teams seek edges all the time and teams have clearly been screwing with balls and everyone knows it, but they use it as a way to take the Patriots down because they can't do it on the field.

 

[Ivan]

Is this gonna bring those "BRADY IS DONE, START JIMMY G" people who left the board after the Cincy game back out of the woodwork ,

Already has, triumph and Patradomous and others have been back in force this week

 

[karguy85]

In more important news, will the roof at University of Phoenix Stadium be open or closed for the Super Bowl? Thoughts?

Just thought I'd bring it up. I keep seeing a link to that article at the the top of the forums...

 

[strngplyr]

You can be sure that as the accusers, even if the Colts were deflating their balls, they sure as hell would've had them pumped back up at halftime when re-measured. Could be Luck likes them bursting like Rodgers does.

It sounds like this is common practice and the Pats are going to taken to the woodshed for being ratted out on it. Sound familiar?

mike freeman @mikefreemanNFL · 1h1 hour ago
Gerry Austin, longtime referee, says halftime Pats-Colts footballs brought in, checked at half. Colts footballs still legal. Pats were not.

mike freeman @mikefreemanNFL · 1h1 hour ago
Gerry Austin: "I take away from that somebody let some air out of the balls." Austin said that on Mike and Mike this morning.


This says absolutely nothing about the balls potentially starting at different levels and only that the Colts are "still legal".

No mention of numbers, but it does tell us that the Colts balls were checked too, if we're to believe Gerry Austin. I do have to question how he knows so matter-of-factly since he's been retired for 7 or 8 seasons now.

 

[Big-T]

For the life of me i cannot figure out why the brad johnson superbowl bribe story is not bigger than this. This is insane

Or that he put pine tar under his towel.

What's come from this is Brad Johnson was a shady guy.

 

[Guts]

All this over a air being below the minimum of a football against a team we blew out Jesus....

 

[Patstopia]

NFL inquiry continues today. Investigators are focusing in on one shadow fellow!

Is there really any more proof possibly needed to know how serious the NFL takes ball pressure than to realize they give the balls to a teenager to distribute. If they were as strictly regulated as they would have us believe. There would be a ball security team. Or at least a cup and jock to protect them!

 

[Jackson 2]

As I've said before, I call it "Walsh's paradox": if such a tape actually existed, why didn't it come to light?

Because when push came to shove in front of the Commissioner, Walsh claimed he never said such a tape existed. And I believe that's true.

 

[PP2]

The NFL is really in a no win situation here. I honestly believe they're better off saying there was no foul play, or else this will really get ugly.

If they come out and say the Patriots are guilty, there's going to be an unprecedented uproar of anger, bigger than the Ray Rice fiasco, which is too absurd to even think about. Articles, reporters condemning the NFL, demanding the Pats be removed, disqualified, etc., etc., etc, which we know will not happen whatsoever.

But if they come out and say there was nothing tricky going on, some people will still cry wolf, haters will still hate, but you cool off the situation and defuse it big time, meanwhile, you gain a record amount of interested viewers hoping to see the Pats lose and get the story back on what's most important: the Super Bowl.

This doesn't look good, but I can't see how the NFL can win if they don't side with the Pats.

This is exactly my sentiment. I really don't think the NFL is behind this ****storm. It's the last thing they want to deal with.

Kravitz started this ****storm and now the NFL has to deal with it. The problem is, if the NFL does go ahead and punish the Pats, then they will also have to do something about Rodgers who readily admits to having his balls tampered with, and should they also strip Johnson of the SB37 win because he bribed people to have the balls tampered with? These are issues that representatives for the team will raise when appealing.

 

[Haley]

I can't figure out how this is a huge story but Suh stepping on a QB and ripping his leg up gets a pass by fan and media alike. So ... that wasn't cheating? Because I thought it was pretty textbook.

Additionally, that injury seems to have been the difference between super bowl visit and season's end, while DFG had no bearing on the outcome of the game. So what gives?

 

[King Brady]

Or that he put pine tar under his towel.

What's come from this is Brad Johnson was a shady guy.

but no matter what he did this in a superbowl and paid bribes... this is far far far worse than anything i have heard out of the nfl in awhile ..which this year is not much

 

[King Brady]

if the pats are guilty.. fine punish them.. but i expect to see rodgers and eli manning, vikings and panthers punished as well