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

So it was a sting...

Karen Guregian @kguregian
Colts GM Grigson says he was just trying to "level the playing field" by calling out Patriots


Ummmm......Mr. Grigson, in order to level the playing field, you would had to amputate every Patriots' right leg.

Karen Guregian ‏@kguregian 3m3 minutes ago
Colts GM Ryan Grigson says "I just did my job" when asked about making the initial complaint against Patriots to trigger Deflategate

karguy85 said:

So it was a sting...

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Yup. We can now check that one on the list.

And the national media now knows it.

SVN said:

Grigson comes off as petty . Clearly he is like Faulk who is still pissed at the 2001 Rams loss.

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I hope everyone is aware that Ryan Grigson not only has worked for the Colts whom the Patriots have embarrassed in every game they've played since Grigson became GM (59-24, 43-22, 42-20, 45-7) -but he also worked for the 01 Rams AND the 04 Eagles.. both of whom lost the Superbowl to the Patriots.

SVN said:

Mike Chappell ‏@mchappell51 7m7 minutes ago
Grigson: We had concerns. Want a level playing field. Up to the league to make sure that happens. If rules were broken, we'll see

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For a guy to be so concerned about level playing field and balls, why is he the head of an organization that deliberately tanked/sucked for Luck, and why isn't he concerned that his team showed up with no balls whatsoever on game day?

Rob0729 said:

Here is a way to contact the ESPN Ombudsman. Let's see him tackle the biased reporting of Deflategate:

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?id=2826900

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There isn't any ESPN Ombudsman anymore. The one they had left and they never replaced him. See Mike Reiss' numerous complaints about that, including one today.

Roger Goodell: "This wasn't a sting operation... It was more like a gotcha operation. Totally different."

Deus Irae said:

Just taking this to local radio for a minute.....


This guy Benz is probably not long for the 10-2 gig.

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Hopefully, he isn't long for the NE sports scene period. He's wretched.

Ya this admission doesn't extremely raise the suspicion of what the colts did with the Pats ball on the sideline or that they came into the game knowing that more than likely balls were going to be gauged at HT so let's fill our footballs up to 13.5 in the conditions.

shmessy said:

Karen Guregian @kguregian
Colts GM Grigson says he was just trying to "level the playing field" by calling out Patriots


Ummmm......Mr. Grigson, in order to level the playing field, you would had to amputate every Patriots' right leg.

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And give BB a lobotomy.

The playing field IS level Ryan, Pats are just better than you.

Now why don't you talk about how you managed to lose your franchise QB one year, only to fortuitously end up with the top pick next year to draft your next one?

Logic:

If the Patriots were alerting the NFL about the kicking balls then.........

WHY THE HELL WOULD THEY BE SCREWING AROUND WITH THE REGULAR FOOTBALLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

rochrist said:

Hopefully, he isn't long for the NE sports scene period. He's wretched.

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It's still early, but he seems to be on the Salk 2.0 track.

So Grigson said in public today that he was "just trying to level the playing field".

Is that NOT a libelous claim?

He basically accused them of cheating at this press conference.

shmessy said:

Finally!

The real crook in the matter (NOT McNally) is outed - - the fired employee is someone named Scott Miller.

And, according to PFT, it was the PATRIOTS who alerted the NFL.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/02/19/patriots-alerted-nfl-to-issue-with-special-teams-ball/…

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Probably within 24 hours of also reporting the Rats to the NFL for tampering.

And then, just coincidentally, the excrement collided with the mechanical rotary cooling device.

It seems that Grigson is worried that the Wells report is going to put him in a bad light and trying to get ahead of it.

But if the Colts knew that the Pats would get their balls inspected at halftime without warning, they might have over inflated their footballs to make sure they would be legal at half time. It could be why Luck played so bad.

So:

The Colts went INTO the AFCCG with a plan.

Someone within the Colts contacts Kravitz after the game to give him the scoop that the Patriots would be investigated by the league.

The league is going to turn up NOTHING on the Patriots.

Can someone tell me HOW IN THE WORLD this is not a slanderous action by the Indianapolis Colts?

Rob0729 said:

But if the Colts knew that the Pats would get their balls inspected at halftime without warning, they might have over inflated their footballs to make sure they would be legal at half time. It could be why Luck played so bad.

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All they'd have to do is inflate their balls with air from outside, and their balls would measure OK at half-time. Of course, for them to do that, they'd have to have discovered PV = nRT, which it sounds like they had not.

Rob0729 said:

It seems that Grigson is worried that the Wells report is going to put him in a bad light and trying to get ahead of it.

But if the Colts knew that the Pats would get their balls inspected at halftime without warning, they might have over inflated their footballs to make sure they would be legal at half time. It could be why Luck played so bad.

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Yup.

This shows that the Colts went into that game with a PLAN.

Has anyone interviewed Andrew Luck to ask how he might feel about that strategy?

What were his numbers in that game, btw?

HOLY CRAP!!!!

12-33 for 126 yards 0TD 2 INT