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There seems to be an avalanche of these articles now and the criticism is getting louder. Enjoy.
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/news/n...tom-brady--pats-look-laughable-183355728.html
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/news/n...tom-brady--pats-look-laughable-183355728.html
Now the NFL may find out what "probably" means, and it's difficult to see how this plays well for the league office.
By the conclusion of February's Super Bowl, the NFL will have data from 332 preseason, regular-season and postseason games in all sorts of weather. An undetermined amount will also include halftime numbers. The procedure on measuring will be sounder – in this past January's AFC title game, two different pumps were used and possibly not on the same balls pregame and at halftime, making the info useless.
Unless the experiment shows that footballs lose almost none of its pregame inflation levels regardless of the conditions, thus making the Patriots' numbers outside the variance because there is almost no variance, the league will be challenged to support its deflate-gate conclusions.
Anything other than that and this is a train wreck in progress for commissioner Roger Goodell and his already image-battered league office.