Schefter's Latest on Colts Did It Rumors

He does not believe they did and he's troubled he can't explain how that one ball was 2 psi down.

It's funny that folks like him say they simply cannot believe that so and so on the Colts would do this; it's crazy...YET the entire media TOTALLY believed the BB and/or Brady LIED.

http://nesn.com/2015/02/adam-schefter-there-are-people-who-believe-colts-deflated-patriots-football/

FTW 2015

I just can't believe the Colts would deflate one ball and frame the Pats! They don't even have to deny it!

I absolutely can believe the Pats would intentionally deflate their footballs to gain a competitive edge, and their denial of doing so means nothing!

Edit: this is sarcasm people

That's what is so insulting. It's so easy to accuse Belichick and Brady of lying. OK, so BB's rep as sullen and surly has won him no admirers, but what has Brady ever done? Yet someone tried to make him look at a camera and APOLOGIZE TO THE CHILDREN FOR BEING A CHEATER.

If I think about this too much, I boil over in anger. Brady and Belichick are owed apologies, period. And Brady should never give anyone on ESPN the time of day ever again.

See, THAT is why BB doesn't waste his time with the media. It doesn't matter even if they are your "friends", they'll turn on you in a minute so WHY WASTE THE EFFORT.

The Colts can do no wrong. Except pump crowd noise, smoke rocks, take fertility drugs and assault pizza guys.

But besides that, they're angels, especially compared to those awful Patriots!

Ross12 said:

The Colts can do no wrong. Except pump crowd noise, smoke rocks, take fertility drugs and assault pizza guys.

But besides that, they're angels, especially compared to those awful Patriots!

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And not to mention sign TV deals with a city right before skipping out of town in the middle of the night...

mosi said:

And not to mention sign TV deals with a city right before skipping out of town in the middle of the night...

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And tanking games intentionally.

Ross12 said:

The Colts can do no wrong. Except pump crowd noise, smoke rocks, take fertility drugs and assault pizza guys.

But besides that, they're angels, especially compared to those awful Patriots!

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Don't forget raping women...

If Schefter or any other 'reporter' wanted to do actual investigation maybe they could find out if Wells has asked Harbaugh, Pagano, Grigson or Kensil to surrender their cell phones for examination of their calls/texts.

Jackson 2 said:

Don't forget raping women...

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And of course they fully backed this scumbag:
http://www.gq.com/sports/profiles/201002/marvin-harrison

I'm still completely baffled that this story didn't become a media firestorm. But no biggie, it was just a druggie so he kept playing and the Colts backed him the whole way.

Anyway, I would LOVE for this to flip on the Colts. The media are so ****ing stupid, they'll jump all over any hint of scandal around Belichick, even implicating Brady because he happens to play for the Evil Genius. But another team doing something shady? No WAY!

Here's my problem...first his quote:

Now, again, it’s a little bit like my take on all of this. There are people in the Patriots’ organization, multiple people there, who are adamant, adamant, that nothing happened. That they did nothing wrong. This is an overdone, blown up situation that got carried away, when they did nothing, and when you listen to them, you 100 percent believe them. And there are other people who I’ve spoken with who say ‘Ah, come on, there is something that happened with those footballs. How could you deny it? How could these balls come out to be where they’re out in the measurements and the Colts’ are fine.

My thing on this is I’d like to believe people that I’ve known and trusted and liked for a long time.

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So he's gonna trust these people who believe they did something, based on conjecture, ignoring ****ing SCIENCE...but he can't bring himself to believe the alternative?

**** Schefter. He's trying to come off as unbiased and fair, not jumping to conclusions and letting the investigation play out--which is great. But he's gonna base his opinion on people who ARE jumping to conclusions. I don't care how close you are to these people, if their conclusions are based on rumor, ignore science and don't consider alternatives, then they're ****ing idiots. And he's a ****ing idiot for believing them.

Hmm yes, how could the Patriots end up with footballs a few ticks under and the Colts' be within regulation, what possible explanation is there for this? It must be BB cheating.

Or, you know, still science: the Colts inflated their footballs to the maximum or perhaps above maximum, meaning they were within tolerance at the half.

I just don't understand how you can say "come on, something happened out there! The Pats' footballs were SLIGHTLY off and the Colts' were not, so your science is invalid, BB is a cheater!" Why is the thought that the other side overinflated to counteract the effects of the science such blasphemy? It's more believable to say BB is a physics-breaking witch doctor?

Troubled by how he can't explain one ball is down 2 psi? Man, what neanderthals we have covering sports. It's already been shown how it could easily drop as much as 1.8 when @50F & wet. If the Colts - or the NFL - stuck a gauge in that thing to measure it, the pressure WILL DROP. In fact, that is the only thing that actually reduces the amount of air in the ball. The other things we are talking about that occurred just reduce the pressure by either decrease in temperature or increase in volume. But gauging a ball removes air.

I thought Schefter wasn't as dumb as his contemporaries, but maybe I was wrong.

If this was a court case, the reasonable doubt is far more than what is needed for an acquittal.

If Goodell still imposes a penalty with no rule broken - like he did with Spygate - then I really don't think he sees the end of the 2015 season as commissioner of the NFL.

BradyManny said:

Troubled by how he can't explain one ball is down 2 psi? Man, what neanderthals we have covering sports. It's already been shown how it could easily drop as much as 1.8 when @50F & wet. If the Colts - or the NFL - stuck a gauge in that thing to measure it, the pressure WILL DROP. In fact, that is the only thing that actually reduces the amount of air in the ball. The other things we are talking about that occurred just reduce the pressure by either decrease in temperature or increase in volume. But gauging a ball removes air.

I thought Schefter wasn't as dumb as his contemporaries, but maybe I was wrong.

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I think you misunderstand what he's saying.

Throughout this witchhunt Schefter has refused to comment on speculation or rumour. When he says he's troubled by how he can't explain the one ball being 2 PSI under, I take that to mean he's concerned it points to the Colts. Because that would be a far bigger scandal for the NFL than the Pats doing it himself. Obviously such a sinister, manipulation of the balls, officials and the media in an attempt to blacken an opponents name would be troubling for anyone involved in the sport. Also, look at the difference in how he describes whats coming from the Pats and what's coming from the accusers. The Pats are adamant and he 100% believes them. The others are just throwing accusations. So when he says he'd like to believe people he's known and trusted for years I think he's talking about the Patriots.

I might be totally wrong, but added to his refusal to report on speculation throughout, that's what I take from it.

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I might be totally wrong, but added to his refusal to report on speculation throughout, that's what I take from it.

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Good points, thanks for further explanation.

Ross12 said:

The Colts can do no wrong. Except pump crowd noise, smoke rocks, take fertility drugs and assault pizza guys.

But besides that, they're angels, especially compared to those awful Patriots!

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yeah i don't get it, they've been accused of pumping noise in for years but they're treated like p manning was/is, they never do anything wrong.

Peter King

The recent statement that "one ball was 2 psi under, & the others were just a tick under" makes absolutely zero sense. ALL balls were down about 1.3 psi below the pressure to which they were set. We KNOW that all the Patriots' balls were set to 12.5 psi, therefore they ALL were reading around 11.2 psi. Which is NOT "just a tick under".

Therefore that statement has to be wrong. Someone is guessing, and they are guessing wrong.
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In addition, I found this original statement from Peter King that people frequently cite as "Peter King says they checked the Colts' balls."

It appears in "Deflategate: The Pressure Is Building", MMQB, Jan 21, 2015, and reads:

"I think it's fair to assume - though it hasn't been confirmed by the league - that the Patriots' footballs that were tested at halftime Sunday had less air, and the Colts' footballs were all found to be legal. Connect the dots. Chris Mortensen reported Tuesday that 11 of 12 Patriots football (sic) had approximately 2 pounds less pressure per square inch then the mandated 12.5 psi required by the NFL. In other words, the patriots footballs were softer than allowed by rule. The obvious deduction is that all the balls, for both teams, were measured at halftime, and that New England football were found to be softer - or else the link would be investigating Indianapolis as well, and the league is clearly not doing that. This is important because it would render moot The theory going around that the cold weather could have caused the air pressure in the balls to decrease. It was the same weather on both sides."

My conclusions from reading this paragraph:

1. Peter King sucks when he attempts to play the role of Sherlock Holmes.
His assumptions are baseless.
His deductions are ludicrous.
His conclusions are wrong.

2. If King had half a brain, his first phone call would've been to Andrew luck. "Hey Andy, what pressure do you like your footballs set to?"

3. NOBODY checked the Colts' balls.
Reason: If they had, they would've found ALL FOOTBALLS reading too low, which would've sent this investigation in a completely different direction.

4. The Patriots balls were NOT softer than the Colts balls.
Reason: there is no significant, no detectable, no sensible difference between the compressibility of a cold football pressurized to 11.5 psi compared to one pressurized to 12.5 psi.

This is 100% proven by the fact that the referees handled both the Patriots' and the Colts' footballs between every play in the first half of that game, and detected no difference.

There is SO MUCH wild, baseless speculation going on here...

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Peter King

The recent statement that "one ball was 2 psi under, & the others were just a tick under" makes absolutely zero sense. ALL balls were down about 1.3 psi below the pressure to which they were set. We KNOW that all the Patriots' balls were set to 12.5 psi, therefore they ALL were reading around 11.2 psi. Which is NOT "just a tick under".

Therefore that statement has to be wrong. Someone is guessing, and they are guessing wrong.
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In addition, I found this original statement from Peter King that people frequently cite as "Peter King says they checked the Colts' balls."

It appears in "Deflategate: The Pressure Is Building", MMQB, Jan 21, 2015, and reads:

"I think it's fair to assume - though it hasn't been confirmed by the league - that the Patriots' footballs that were tested at halftime Sunday had less air, and the Colts' footballs were all found to be legal. Connect the dots. Chris Mortensen reported Tuesday that 11 of 12 Patriots football (sic) had approximately 2 pounds less pressure per square inch then the mandated 12.5 psi required by the NFL. In other words, the patriots footballs were softer than allowed by rule. The obvious deduction is that all the balls, for both teams, were measured at halftime, and that New England football were found to be softer - or else the link would be investigating Indianapolis as well, and the league is clearly not doing that. This is important because it would render moot The theory going around that the cold weather could have caused the air pressure in the balls to decrease. It was the same weather on both sides."

My conclusions from reading this paragraph:

1. Peter King sucks when he attempts to play the role of Sherlock Holmes.
His assumptions are baseless.
His deductions are ludicrous.
His conclusions are wrong.

2. If King had half a brain, his first phone call would've been to Andrew luck. "Hey Andy, what pressure do you like your footballs set to?"

3. NOBODY checked the Colts' balls.
Reason: If they had, they would've found ALL FOOTBALLS reading too low, which would've sent this investigation in a completely different direction.

4. The Patriots balls were NOT softer than the Colts balls.
Reason: there is no significant, no detectable, no sensible difference between the compressibility of a cold football pressurized to 11.5 psi compared to one pressurized to 12.5 psi.

This is 100% proven by the fact that the referees handled both the Patriots' and the Colts' footballs between every play in the first half of that game, and detected no difference.

There is SO MUCH wild, baseless speculation going on here...

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I'd add that even if the balls did have a difference in pressure change it doesn't mean there's no reason to investigate INDY. If you deduce that the change is not possible then both teams are suspect. Indy adding air is just as likely as NE losing it.

The fact that they did not investigate INDY shows bias from the start.

You're assuming someone, anyone in the NFL front office ever took HS physics. I think not.

I am so tired of all the speculating from the media and all the stories contradicting each other. Time to get the official report and put it to rest once and for all.