Ted Wells

convertedpatsfan said:

The burden of proof is on the league to provide evidence that someone with the Patriots tampered the balls. The onus is not on us to prove that there was 0% opportunity from every single person in the organization. As a reminder to those who forgot, you're innocent until proven guilty.

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True, but to find NE guilty the NFL only has to prove it more likely than not.

Uncle Rico said:

I could see him fining the Patriots for the fact the balls had low PSI and that's it. Give himself a weasly out on the whole apology thing.

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How can anyone with over room temperature IQ be satisfied with us being punished because our balls obey the laws of physics?

NFW!!!

rlcarr said:

True, but to find NE guilty the NFL only has to prove it more likely than not.

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How is (make **** up) more likely than the laws of physics which Effing mandate lower than 12.5 psi at halftime if set at 12.5 in refs locker room?????

PatsWickedPissah said:

How is (make **** up) more likely than the laws of physics which Effing mandate lower than 12.5 psi at halftime if set at 12.5 in refs locker room?????

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That's what I've been saying. No one knows what the pressure should be at halftime. The league is 95 years old and they have to hire a physicist to tell them. I wouldn't be surprised if in the first game of the season in Miami they were overinflated. But no one knows. No one has ever checked, or bothered to write it down if they had.

PatsWickedPissah said:

How is (make **** up) more likely than the laws of physics which Effing mandate lower than 12.5 psi at halftime if set at 12.5 in refs locker room?????

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Agreed. But (1) This is Roger. (2) The league office clearly is all-in to smear NE and BB. (3) Any appeal is to Roger. (4) Teams have signed contracts to not sue the league.

So Roger can (and will) make up anything he wants. And thanks to the NFL-lead smear campaign we've just been witnessing, nobody outside NE will care one iota that he made things up.

rlcarr you old guys are too cynical show some youthful optimism!

PatsWickedPissah said:

rlcarr you old guys are too cynical show some youthful optimism!

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That's why this Columbia news is the best news all day. No matter what, I'm confident the truth will come out now. Having spent enough time around them (though admittedly not being one) - scientists, taken on the whole, just do not get wrapped up in the same ******** games the rest of society does. If the Columbia physicist exonerates the Pats, and its not reflected in Wells/Pash report, we're going to know about it - b/c that's the kind of **** that pisses scientists the F off. I can't emphasize enough the scientific community's lack of patience for ********.

Now, we know at least something in the investigation will be agenda-free. Doesn't guarantee competency, but Columbia is a fine university - so I'm feeling like we're probably going to get news in a couple weeks from now.

rlcarr said:

True, but to find NE guilty the NFL only has to prove it more likely than not.

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It's more likely the Packers have done it since Rodgers is on the record as inflating the balls. He also has the lowest INT rate of any QB in the history of football. Doesn't a significantly lower turnover rate trump the potential gain of an already-accurate QB with a slightly deflated ball?

And the league has taken no real action against the Vikings, who were caught on camera actually trying to alter the ball with heaters. There's no hint of something untowards or a rumour of a ball boy taking a piss; they were caught red-handed on TV. And yet we get over a week of this non-stop ridiculousness right before the most important game of the season.

You've got QBs coming out admitting they've done it. You've got a QB who have PAID someone to do it in a Super Bowl game. Nothing, nothing. But we're supposed to be afraid of a ball boy taking a piss in a bathroom?

The league sure as heck better come up with something legit other than the current ******** of leaked "evidence" and pseudo-science. They already lack credibility after their botching of the Ray Rice scandal. Nobody is willing to take their word for anything anymore.

Does Ted Wells even exist?

I'm one of the "old" guys and yes, I'm cynical. A wealth of life experience has taught me that hard lesson.

jlu52 said:

Coach in a meeting with the NFL office... (in all the prominent publications)

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Those covers remind me so much of the swarm of little Ashes in Army of Darkness