2/18/2015: Schefter Blows Up ESPN's Earlier Story

SVN · Feb 18, 2015

Kelly Naqi =Mike Fish 2007

Dr Pain · Feb 18, 2015

Silver Blue&Red said:
...And these are the officials we trust to call a fair game. You know, because they're so unbiased and honest. We haven't seen any games decided by suspect calls, right?

This is a huge point I have not heard from the media yet. Am official who will steal balls and take away from charity can be trusted not to fix a game? Insane

Tunescribe · Feb 18, 2015

ausbacker said:
I'm not going to jump ahead of myself until I see concrete proof that absolves the Patriots

How can there be "concrete proof" absolving someone of something that never happened? Like Kraft said, I think that absent concrete proof something DID happen implicating the Patriots, the league needs to slap its own wrist and issue a formal apology. Preferably, this apology will be formalized in a photo op of R. Stokoe Goodell and Jim Irsay on their hands and knees literally kissing the bare asses of Kraft, Belichick and Brady.

Guts · Feb 18, 2015

Weeks of us dealing with anti Patriot propaganda will eventually be worth it if this blows up in the NFL face. Winning the Superbowl was enough, but I'm absolutely certain the majority of us want blood for those trying to tarnish the best team of the 21st century

Ross12 · Feb 18, 2015

Dr Pain said:
This is a huge point I have not heard from the media yet. Am official who will steal balls and take away from charity can be trusted not to fix a game? Insane

Not really hearing anything about this from any media outside of local guys, seems like they are realizing where this is headed and just ignoring it or something.

hwc · Feb 18, 2015

Ross12 said:
Not really hearing anything about this from any media outside of local guys, seems like they are realizing where this is headed and just ignoring it or something.

You know this will be the talk of the bars and restaurants at the combine in Indy tonight.

patfanken · Feb 18, 2015

ESPN finally speaks.....and as expected it was disappointing (including Adam S)

After giving close to five minutes to the Kelly Naqui OTL story, this clip was about a minute and a half, which basically had Schecter quickly repeating his fired league official story, and they spent the rest of the time spouting that we can't tell what that means and won't know anything until the Welles report comes out in a couple of months. Its up to Welles to determine who is guilty, and thus implying that the Pats haven't been vindicated.

So after a 5 minute clip that allow the reporter to speculate further Patriot wrong doing, they spent a mere minute plus to say, well this thing happened, but its way to early to speculate what it means, and we certainly don't know enough to be speculating on it.

WOW! want a copout, including Schecter who was on the panel. They allow their reporters freedom to speculation on any negative aspects of the whole phony deflategate story, but when it starts to fall apart, suddenly they decide they have to wait for the Welles report, because. we aren't qualified to speculate. What a joke.

BTW- I wish I was Jim McNally's lawyer, because he's going to end up owning everything Kelly Nagui owns and a sizable piece of ESPN.

Bobsyouruncle · Feb 18, 2015

Ross12 said:
Not really hearing anything about this from any media outside of local guys, seems like they are realizing where this is headed and just ignoring it or something.

It's on yahoo and other places, I googled OTL and Shefter and there was no shortage of links, especially for a story 3 hours old.

After they made a huge deal out of the story to begin with they won't be able to bury a report that says a corrupt official was stealing balls and trying to put unapproved balls into a game.

Wrath Mania · Feb 18, 2015

patfanken said:
ESPN finally speaks.....and as expected it was disappointing (including Adam S)

After giving close to five minutes to the Kelly Naqui OTL story, this clip was about a minute and a half, which basically had Schecter quickly repeating his fired league official story, and they spent the rest of the time spouting that we can't tell what that means and won't know anything until the Welles report comes out in a couple of months. Its up to Welles to determine who is guilty, and thus implying that the Pats haven't been vindicated.

So after a 5 minute clip that allow the reporter to speculate further Patriot wrong doing, they spent a mere minute plus to say, well this thing happened, but its way to early to speculate what it means, and we certainly don't know enough to be speculating on it.

WOW! want a copout, including Schecter who was on the panel. They allow their reporters freedom to speculation on any negative aspects of the whole phony deflategate story, but when it starts to fall apart, suddenly they decide they have to wait for the Welles report, because. we aren't qualified to speculate. What a joke.

BTW- I wish I was Jim McNally's lawyer, because he's going to end up owning everything Kelly Nagui owns and a sizable piece of ESPN.

I got the sense the attached video was from before Schefter broke the real story.

Brady_to_Moss · Feb 18, 2015

I am HAMMERING Kravitz on twitter

fgssand · Feb 18, 2015

Ross12 said:
Not really hearing anything about this from any media outside of local guys, seems like they are realizing where this is headed and just ignoring it or something.

Of course, where are the national news stories now?

It's going to take the Wells report totally exonerating the patriots fom any wrong doing along with putting the blame squarely wherever it belongs, followed up by Goodells apology (or his replacements apology following goodels firing).

Something SENSATIONAL has to happen next to put this back on the front pages or it will suffer the same fate as spygates erroneous conclusions as to what really happened and what it meant.

It may be headed that way, cross your fingers boys - I mean if the damn officials cannot be trusted to give a damn ball to charity, then, certainly the officials and head of officials all must take the hit in order to protect the integrity of the game.

Come on Peter King.....time to speak up.

Mike Reiss, now is your chance.

Adam Schefter ... You are my hero.

Bobsyouruncle · Feb 18, 2015

If this was on camera it means the Patriots have known this since early on. No wonder they were pissed the league is leaking crap about the Patriots but not the stuff about the league being corrupt.

fgssand · Feb 18, 2015

Brady_to_Moss said:
I am HAMMERING Kravitz on twitter

is he answering?

Brady_to_Moss · Feb 18, 2015

fgssand said:
is he answering?

No...he is like goodell...he will hide in his hole like a fraud

Sent him 8 tweets now...i be soon i will be blocked haha

Dr Pain · Feb 18, 2015

fgssand said:
is he answering?

He never does

SHOWTIME15 · Feb 18, 2015

How does this solve deflategate?

hwc · Feb 18, 2015

The Pats are obviously the source for Shefter's report. They saw yet another leak making the Pats look guilty and said, really.... you want to play the leak game, huh? Has Belichick written all over it...

smurfalarm · Feb 18, 2015

Rob0729 said:
We don't know that. We do not know what Naqi asked these other people. Did she could have just asked if McNally was in charge of giving the balls to the ref. They may not have confirmed the fact that one of the balls was unapproved.

It's pretty bad wording by Naqi if that's the case, but lord knows we have seen a lot of bad reporting by ESPN, so that wouldn't be a huge surprise. Anyway, the exact number of sources who said that McNally was introducing an unauthorized ball without providing context is beside the point. What I am trying to say is that either Naqi got the story completely wrong because she did a poor job of investigating and reporting information provided to her, or there is at least one or possibly multiple sources who have close access to the Wells investigation and are selectively leaking information in an attempt to damage the Patriots' reputation. The difference between one and three sources is the difference between a bad actor and a conspiracy, both of which would reflect very poorly on the league.

ctpatsfan77 said:
Supposedly, three sources confirmed that McNally works for the Pats. Only one made the claim re: the football.

I can believe it, but where was that reported? It wasn't in the text of the original article. I don't remember seeing that claim being made anywhere except on this forum, and it was never sourced. Did more details come out on a talk show or something?

letekro · Feb 18, 2015

Jlaff · Feb 18, 2015

DefenseRules said:
I said it from the beginning. The Officials didn't do their jobs in the AFC title game. People didn't buy it. Well here we go. On top of that, it turns out one of the officials may have had a little business thing going on the side. Honestly, why should any of us trust these people going forward?

Corrupt referees is an enormous "integrity of the game" issue. It's not that pathetic "integrity of the game" as it pertains to football inflation issue Goodell was championing.

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