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

SVN said:

So if the colts notified the nfl, the nfl allowed the pats to play 1 half with those footballs they were suspecting ?

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SVN said:

So if the colts notified the nfl, the nfl allowed the pats to play 1 half with those footballs they were suspecting ?

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Deus Irae said:

Jerry Thornton is going to be gold at 3:00 pm...

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JJP said:

OMG -- this just in! Apparently the Pats may be disqualified from winning the Super Bowl! Apparently a Kenyan birth certificate has emerged indicating that Tom Brady is not even a real American!

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Deus Irae said:

The import of Grigson's comments and the 'fact' that balls were tested DURING THE GAME and found to be unacceptable:

NFL either ran a sting or ignored fair warning

If it's the latter, the NFL clearly screwed up.

If it's the former, the NFL KNOWINGLY ALLOWED for the possibility that the "integrity of the game" would be compromised in order to catch the Patriots in a bad act.

Either way, Rodger's got to go.

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Grigson’s comments conflict with the NFL’s position that the issue first arose during the game, not before it. Grigson’s comments also undermine the NFL’s efforts to conclusively prove deflation; if the league knew the Colts had concerns about underinflated footballs before the AFC title game, why didn’t the game officials log the PSI of all Patriots and Colts footballs before the game started?

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Hammer of Thor said:

The important thing is that the Pats already denied the logical third option: that the Colts complained, the NFL calls up th Pats and warned them about having no funny business, and the Colts complained again during the game after the interception. That would at least sho competence and a respect to the game's integrity. But Belichick and Kraft both said the first time they were contacted was the Monday after the game.

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Where would the McNally information have originated? Signs -- actually, a blinking neon arrow -- points to NFL headquarters.

Kelly Naqi is the spouse of Hussain Naqi, a former league office employee from 1998 to 2002 who has kept up his strong Park Avenue ties through his present job as an executive for the Jacksonville Jaguars.

Prior to working in the NFL offices, Hussain Naqi was as a paralegal for Covington & Burling, a Washington, D.C.-based law firm that has represented the NFL in different matters over the years, including the 2010 lawsuit brought by suspended Saints players in the wake of Bountygate suspensions. Former NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue is a partner at the firm.

More recently, Hussain Naqi worked for the New Meadowlands Stadium Company in East Rutherford, N.J. There, he served as Vice President of Business Planning and General Counsel at MetLife Stadium, the home of the Jets and Giants. Naqi would have worked closely with the league office on all the logistics for Super Bowl 48. The man in charge of “running” the Super Bowl for the NFL is its Vice President of Game Operations. He would speak to Naqi a lot. His name is Mike Kensil.

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SVN said:

So if the colts notified the nfl, the nfl allowed the pats to play 1 half with those footballs they were suspecting ?

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SVN said:

http://www.csnne.com/new-england-patriots/curran-strong-nfl-link-recent-deflategate-leak



I am hope Ted Wells is impartial and not there to help out the league.

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SVN said:

http://www.csnne.com/new-england-patriots/curran-strong-nfl-link-recent-deflategate-leak



I am hope Ted Wells is impartial and not there to help out the league.

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Very interesting that Dean Blandino insisted at Super Bowl that he wasn't aware of any complaints from Colts

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Deus Irae said:

So, Dean Blandino...... Lying liar, or out of the loop?



https://twitter.com/Trags/status/568487517818908672

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vyrago said:

I

I think Hurley has just replaced Tom E. As my favorite snarky Patriots reporter




That's why she has 4 or so bylines in 43 months and Shefter is the oracle of the NFL.

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SVN said:

The sad part is , no one from nfl will comment on this. And I sure am not holding my breath that wells will be impartial towards to the nfl and pats.

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Deus Irae said:

So, Dean Blandino...... Lying liar, or out of the loop?



https://twitter.com/Trags/status/568487517818908672

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