The Published Wells Report.

[Dr Pain]

3 colts balls (and potentially more) were underinflated! Take away a draft pick and suspend Luck!

The key takeaway is Blakmon measured every Patriots ball far below the other guy and every Colts ball way above the other guy. That makes no sense.

 

[rochrist]

Ted Wells: "We do not believe that the evidence supports a conclusion that there was any deliberate effort by the Patriots to circumvent the NFL's Playing Rules with respect to the kicking balls used during the AFC Championship Game." what about this line tweeted by adam schefter?

Kicking balls are pretty beside the point. No one suspected them of messing with the kicking balls.

 

[KingOfTheCourt]

"In conclusion, it is possibly probable that Tom Brady maybe had some general feel of the possible actions that maybe probably happened in regards to the more than probable conclusion that the footballs were deflated" - Pretty much sums it up!

 

[cmasspatsfan]

So Brady was pissed that the refs had balls at 16 and wanted them lower and this is what they're deeming as evidence? WTF

 

[shmessy]

Brer sess his big opportunity.


Kimberly Jones ✔ @KimJonesSports
Re: Pats footballs. My tweet from Jan. 22: This would be completely impossible to believe: That some equipment guy or ball boy went rogue.

Retweeted by Albert Breer

 

[ctpatsfan77]

The key takeaway is Blakmon measured every Patriots ball far below the other guy and every Colts ball way above the other guy. That makes no sense.

If you look, there's a difference of about 0.3–0.5 for every single ball. The higher number is almost certainly the person who measured first, and the lower number the person who measured second.

 

[luuked]

No it isn't. Goodell warned the Pats after Spygate that he would come down on them really hard if they were caught cheating again. He might use Spygate saying the Pats already had their first offense and this time it is going to be even worse.

Except there was no cheating going on.

Jeff Howe ‏@jeffphowe 4m4 minutes ago
Halftime measurements: Notice the difference in each officials' gaug

Seriously, this table is all you need to see to conclude how completely idiotic the entire situation is. Any team that gives their balls very closely to the allowed lower threshold of 12.5 will play with underinflated balls just because of ref's measurement. Add in a second measurement and the weather and I don't see how they can even conclude a "more likely than not" verdict.

 

[rochrist]

You can't take a pick from a team because of the action of a player.

if the coaches and management were not involved, as the report says, you can't take a pick.

Is that in the rules somewhere or is it just your belief? Because if it isn't written down in black and white, I wouldn't count on it.

 

[upstater1]

Kicking balls are pretty beside the point. No one suspected them of messing with the kicking balls.

Not if they were underinflated. They are NOT besides the point.

 

[Wrath Mania]

Brer sess his big opportunity.


Kimberly Jones ✔ @KimJonesSports
Re: Pats footballs. My tweet from Jan. 22: This would be completely impossible to believe: That some equipment guy or ball boy went rogue.

Retweeted by Albert Breer

You can see Breer's boner over all this from a hundred miles away.

 

[KDPPatsfan85]

It is more probable or not that Kensil gave Wells a blowjob.

 

[Dr Pain]

If you look, there's a difference of about 0.3–0.5 for every single ball. The higher number is almost certainly the person who measured first, and the lower number the person who measured second.

No it should not make that much of a differance

 

[ctpatsfan77]

Kicking balls are pretty beside the point. No one suspected them of messing with the kicking balls.

Except for ESPN's breathless reporting that someone (McNally?) tried to introduce a K ball into the game. . . .

 

[karguy85]

If you look, there's a difference of about 0.3–0.5 for every single ball. The higher number is almost certainly the person who measured first, and the lower number the person who measured second.

So when they put the gauge in for pre-game measurements that's already an automatic loss of 0.3-0.5 PSI, right? So the balls are starting off around 12, not accounting for the elements.

 

[RobertWeathers]

No.

It's just beginning.

Beginning of what? Discipline for TB12?

You can't discipline a player that "probably" did something.

Even a Cro-Magnon like Goodell wouldn't do that.

 

[QuantumMechanic]

Breer sees his big opportunity.


Kimberly Jones ✔ @KimJonesSports
Re: Pats footballs. My tweet from Jan. 22: This would be completely impossible to believe: That some equipment guy or ball boy went rogue.

Retweeted by Albert Breer

I can't stand Breer either, but if you said to me "assuming, arguendo, that the balls were intentionally deflated, how do you think it happened?" then I would have said the most likely thing would have been a rogue ballboy with under the tacit ("Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?") or explicit direction of one of the quarterbacks.

 

[patsinthesnow]

@RJinVegas: #Patriots betting SUSPENDED by Sportsbook.ag due to possible player suspensions related to "deflated football" report.

 

[condon84]

I just skimmed through the actual report.

Some of the texts between McNally and Jastremski are gonna be used to crucify Brady publicly.

Get ready.

 

[Deus Irae]

Ok, I'm going to have to turn off the radio. There's no way in hell I'm going to listen to F/M on this, and, while I'm a fan of Dale and Holley, Dale loses me when he goes moralizing.

 

[YOUGOTMOSSED]

They can try but the NFLPA will get that overturned in seconds, you can't suspend anyone over "maybe, could have who knows?"

If you got fired from your job over a "maybe" you'd win an unfair dismissal claim in court, it's the same thing.

That's not true, an "at will" employee can be fired for any reason (or no reason) without consequence beyond an unemployment insurance claim unless he's a member of some protected class.