Deflate-Gate: Here We Go Again

SVN said:

Jeff Howe ‏@jeffphowe 3m3 minutes ago
NFL's latest response: "We are not commenting on the details of the review at this point."

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Better comment soon or enjoy your trainwreck of a Superbowl. Dbags.

The only thing accomplished from that press conference is reaffirming just how ridiculous our media is.

Colbert could have been at that thing and been in character and no one would have batted an eye.

I know this thing is losing legs fast, my Twitter feed has slowed way down. Hopefully tomorrow morning NFL Radio will be back to normal and its just the usual nutjobs complaining about NE (Florio, Borges, ESPN).

Jeff Darlington ‏@JeffDarlington 4m4 minutes ago
I had good phone conversation with D’Qwell that we’ll post to @nfl .com shortly. He makes it clear he was NOT trying to prompt investigtion.

Jeff Darlington ‏@JeffDarlington 2m2 minutes ago
Is D’Qwell Jackson bitter if Patriots used illegal balls? "They won that game because of their intensity – not the pressure of a football.”

Petraglia and Price are the best. Interesting that they both believe the reason for Brady and Belichick not being interviewed yet by the league is that it is the league's strategy right now to smoke them out by letting them twist in the wind very publicly.

Here is their 7+ minute breakdown of what happened today:

http://itiswhatitis.weei.com/sports...dy-pressers-and-what-it-means-to-deflategate/

I think this is on the refs. Brady could possibly like his balls at 11 PSI and the refs have been approving them the whole time for years. Because no-one, even Brady or the refs, can tell the difference during the game-- no-one has been complaining. Insert the Ravens, where Harbaugh could have some knowledge about Brady's ball preference. He probably called up Chandler's chump of a brother, and Arthur told old Jim and Jim alerted the media and whoever else. Now the NFL's credibility is on the line, though most QBs have been getting away with under/over inflated balls for years.

How will the NFL pursue this matter or what will they do to protect their product? They obviously thought this was gonna go away, since they haven't talked to Brady yet (I'm not even sure if Brady was suppose to admit to that-- he did change his answer a bit the second time) but the league underestimated the amount of hatred for the Patriots in the press and for fans.

Its crazy how much this thing has flipped for me at least. I hope they keep talking about this and out themselves as idiots while we take home our 4th Lombardi. I want a teeshirt thats says check my balls with 4th rings on it and BB/Tom's face. If were going to be pinned into a corner by public opinion we should make that corner as comfortable as possible and revel in it. Lets be the delusional fanbase who's team can do no wrong but also has 4 championships to bask in.

shmessy said:

Petraglia and Price are the best. Interesting that they both believe the reason for Brady and Belichick not being interviewed yet by the league is that it is the league's strategy right now to smoke them out by letting them twist in the wind very publicly.

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I find that possible and scary thought. But again, I'm just banking on Brady & Belichick being way too smart to lie about something so innocuous.

Brady press conference was the height of absurdity. Felt bad for him, thought he did well, although I wish he just did opening remarks like BB and then shut their momentum down. Best thing he ended doing was talking for 30 minutes.

Frustrating to watch Borges half-assedly grill Brady, when his premise (D'Qwell Jackson thought the ball was odd) was simply untrue.

********Whooops, THERE IT IS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jeff Howe @jeffphowe
Oh RT @ScottIsaacs: Colts LB D'Qwell Jackson: "The deal about me saying that I noticed anything about (the football), that's totally false

Jeff Howe ‏@jeffphowe 45s46 seconds ago
Tom Brady made an opening statement before fielding 61 questions in 31 minutes today.

shmessy said:

********Whooops, THERE IT IS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jeff Howe @jeffphowe
Oh RT @ScottIsaacs: Colts LB D'Qwell Jackson: "The deal about me saying that I noticed anything about (the football), that's totally false

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This is now an official ambush - - "setup" mode.

SVN said:

Jeff Howe ‏@jeffphowe 45s46 seconds ago
Tom Brady made an opening statement before fielding 61 questions in 31 minutes today.

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He has to be exaggerating on that number of questions lol

Anyone who is on Twitter better start tweetin'

shmessy said:

Petraglia and Price are the best. Interesting that they both believe the reason for Brady and Belichick not being interviewed yet by the league is that it is the league's strategy right now to smoke them out by letting them twist in the wind very publicly.

Here is their 7+ minute breakdown of what happened today:

http://itiswhatitis.weei.com/sports...dy-pressers-and-what-it-means-to-deflategate/

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Even curran said this this AM that the league is trying a 'sting' operation on the pats out of spite

http://www.csnne.com/new-england-patriots/curran-focus-moves-brady-and-nfls-sting

shmessy said:

This is now an official ambush - - "setup" mode.

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Which is why they're letting them hang, and might let them hang through next week. Despite what fools like Francesa are claiming, this isn't going to hurt the league. Quite the contrary, this is going to be the most spectacular, most highest rated Super Bowl ever.

Wrath Mania said:

Which is why they're letting them hang, and might let them hang through next week. Despite what fools like Francesa are claiming, this isn't going to hurt the league. Quite the contrary, this is going to be the most spectacular, most highest rated Super Bowl ever.

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With D'Qwell saying this now, the cat is out of the bag!

The league is really horrible for not saying a single word but leaking info to mort and then watching the pats toil in front of the media. WTF is kraft doing?

shmessy said:

With D'Qwell saying this now, the cat is out of the bag!

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Who first reported that it was jackson who noticed the ball? Mort?

shmessy said:

With D'Qwell saying this now, the cat is out of the bag!

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I'm also wondering if the balls were under-deflated by fractionally, by like .2PSI, not 2PSI. I thought BB's example of 12.5 falling to 12.3 in bad conditions was pretty telling. Suppose Mortensen screwed up, or was fed the wrong info? It's not inconcievable. These morons are taking about the weight of the ball and have no idea what they're saying, physics wise.