What Should/Can Kraft Do?

What can he do? Probably all of the above. What's he likely to do? IMO nothing, if the Pats are exonerated. The other owners will not want him suing the NFL or calling even more attention to this debacle. He'll make some magnanimous speech about "as we said, we did nothing wrong, and now we are prepared to move forward for the good of the league. On to the 2015-16 season!" or some such drivel. The NFL already fired its sticky fingered ballboy so he's likely to be the only casualty IMO, and I hope, behind the scenes, Kraft works for Goodell's ousting, or at least non-renewal next time his contract is up.

If they try to penalize the Pats, I'd say all bets are off, and even if Goodell is in survivor mode, he has to know that pissing Kraft off even further is likely to be signing his own death warrant. But who knows? He's not a smart man, as he has shown over and over again.

Froob said:

What Kraft should do is request to not play on Monday Night Football again as long as ESPN is running the show.

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He doesn't need to request it of the NFL. He just needs to get the Foxboro board of selectmen and/or town meeting to pass the appropriate regulation/bylaw to ban Monday night football games for X years (where X is the number of years left on ESPN's contract) and then the NFL's hands are tied.

rlcarr said:

He doesn't need to request it of the NFL. He just needs to get the Foxboro board of selectmen and/or town meeting to pass the appropriate regulation/bylaw to ban Monday night football games for X years (where X is the number of years left on ESPN's contract) and then the NFL's hands are tied.

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I like your thinking but it doesn't stop them from being on Monday Night Football in other cities. Typically, they will be on three times this year. They might also be on Thanksgiving against Dallas

Oh yeah. Good point about road games.

Here are my thoughts on what Kraft/Pats can do: (I posted it on a different thread)

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Count me among those waiting to pounce on the deflategate ending (big expectation that it would prove to the world that we are above some of the scum in the NFL hasty to smear us again) to demand a revist of the witchhunting of the 07 cameragate.

Here are my broad thoughts:

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First, not all those '07 videos have been destroyed.

http://deadspin.com/383677/jay-glazer-owns-the-nfl

Glazer has at least one, and even if he is not willing to it, can he be enticed to release a portion of the contents?

That could set the ball rolling on discussing what was taped, how it probably could never have been used for that game and most certainly for future game references (just read Glazer's interview above).

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Second, get these four reporters Curran-Reiss-Hurley-Wilbur first read this (I know, bleacherreport might not be taken that seriously but they provide an awesome insight into this subject):

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...pygate-punishing-success-and-promoting-parity

Would that convince them to start asking the right questions on national media?

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Maybe.

That is why as a third step, have Kraft participate/sponsor in some manner for this name -cleansing effort, which will probably motivate the above four more than any passionate fan could do.

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The above might turn the tide in favor of us and have the broader football fan world truly recognize the genius and talent of BB-TB.



FYI in case you didn't catch some splendid columns by Wilbur right @ the beginning of this deflategate:

http://www.boston.com/sports/column...te_stupidity_has_reached_its_fever_pitch.html

And this, another gem from Hurley:

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2015/02/...o-to-be-banned-from-nfl/#.VNOej6MZqec.twitter

Enjoy!!

What should Kraft do?

He should ask fans never to allow Goodell to set foot in Foxboro MA again....seriously folks!

So keep your eyes out!

What should Kraft do? He should get a competent engineer (such as, say, me ) to come to Foxboro, give him/her 10 "broken in, just like game day" official footballs, & run his own experiment (replicating the temperature, rain & time exposure) to show that the pressure drop was entirely due to temperature & rain. Filming every step along the way.

Then, if the NFL's report says anything other than "the Pats did nothing, we just didn't understand how temperature & pressure interact inside footballs", he should release his report to the press on the very same day.

JMO.

Or do it during every single game all season.

I don't know what Kraft does, but if I was Kraft, I'd be beyond aggravated. The insanity of it being baseball season and still no word.....

tom.kordis said:

What should Kraft do? He should get a competent engineer (such as, say, me ) to come to Foxboro, give him/her 10 "broken in, just like game day" official footballs, & run his own experiment (replicating the temperature, rain & time exposure) to show that the pressure drop was entirely due to temperature & rain. Filming every step along the way.

Then, if the NFL's report says anything other than "the Pats did nothing, we just didn't understand how temperature & pressure interact inside footballs", he should release his report to the press on the very same day.

JMO.

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That's a good idea, but more dramatic would be to have a group of 7th graders doing it, because it is so easy to do, with a dozen footballs, a pump, a pressure gauge, and a refrigerator.

It has always annoyed me that ESPN didn't just go do the experiment. Not even the sports science guys, who KNOW that PV=nRT.

Remember for a whole week the ESPN guys were passing around footballs at 12 psi and 13 psi to see if anyone could tell the difference by feel? Why did not it ever dawn on a single person to see what would happen to one of those football if it was put into the fridge in the lunchroom for a few hours?

This doesn't take an engineer, or a chemist, or a physicist. Chris Berman himself could do the experiment. Forrest Gump, Terry Bradshaw, Emmitt Smith, and Marshall Faulk could even put their minds together to do the experiment!

Palm Beach Pats Fan said:

It has always annoyed me that ESPN didn't just go do the experiment. Not even the sports science guys, who KNOW that PV=nRT.

Remember for a whole week the ESPN guys were passing around footballs at 12 psi and 13 psi to see if anyone could tell the difference by feel? Why did not it ever dawn on a single person to see what would happen to one of those football if it was put into the fridge in the lunchroom for a few hours?

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It's incredible. I never understood it either.

PBPF - just curious, do you know if Columbia ever did go ahead and provide consulting for the NFL? I exchanged a cordial email with Bill Zacj a while back, but at that point all he said was that he nor the other person in the NYT article were working on it. I think you had more back & forth with him than I did.

This whole time I've been assuming they are the experts the NFL brought in, but it's never been confirmed.

I just had one email exchange with Prof. Zajc, and he seemed more annoyed than anything that he was mentioned in the article and was having to deal with a glut of less-than-pleasant emails. So I don't think he was part of the NFL investigations. I'm not sure who is, either. A follow-up Times article says they contacted the department chair for a recommendation as to "whether there is a Columbia professor who may be interested in and appropriate for this assignment.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/28/s...st-over-patriots-deflated-footballs.html?_r=0

funny- my daughter just got accepted to go to college... at Columbia!

That article is from way back in January though. That was back when everyone was happy to string the Pats up on slanderous accusations. A lot has changed since then.