The Published Wells Report.

Bombdog said:

This report is biased and highly suspect. 1. No definitive finding of wrong doing. 2. Interpretation of E-mails that are open to question. 3. Indicting a man character with suspect evidence that would be laughed out of court. 4. If Brady is suspended and appeals a netural and unbiased hearings officer would overrule that suspension without question. 4. If tom Brady chooses to go after Wells for defamation of character he probably more than likely would obtain a judgment against him. Now is the time for the Pats to stand up to the commish.

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There's no defamation case for Brady. Wells report, at the end of the day, is nothing more than an opinion. You can't sue someone for an opinion.

And SharksOfVegas wins the Erika Leigh Award for 2015. Never get your hopes up again.

The texts are suspicious. Its annoying at best. WTF.

I can confirm we knew we were going to get f'd by this report. That science didn't matter. And that the only thing to do is have Kraft throw open the window and scream, "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!"
And then go slap the ****z out of Mcnally and Jastremski for being dumbasses!

"Probably"

Just a note for the record: I'm not saying that I believe Brady, or either employee, to be innocent. I'm not saying I believe them to be guilty.

I'm saying that the evidence that I've seen so far is indicative of a ****ty investigation, and not of anyone's guilt or innocence.

The report seems to be solely based on text messages between two low level employees. Your view on the report will be based on how much credibility you put in those messages. Does it make me personally suspicious? Yes - but I'm not writing a report that will do irrevocable damage to the reputations of Tom Brady and the Patriots. If you have that responsibility, I think you need to choose your words very carefully. But either way, there is no direct evidence that Tom Brady was involved or knew anything about the deflating footballs.

I think until you have evidence, your suspicions should remain private.

I just want the Patriots to win the SB 50 and Gronk to throw Goodell out of the podium in Sergio Brown Style, them I can be done with football, takes too much of my time anyway.

Ross12 said:

Why doesn't the report mention that the four Colts' balls both had mostly also fallen below spec, and also did not lose as much pressure as science would suggest?

Wells' conclusion is essentially: "Science says X amount of pressure loss should occur. The Pats experienced >X, the Colts experienced <X. The Pats probably tampered, don't worry about the Colts."

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Yep everyone is going to ignore the fact that some of the Colts balls were under inflated. Which is the whole cause of this thing. Where is the investigation into them on why those balls were under? Oh Colts got off because they chose to take science into account for that but for the Pats footballs nope no way it could have been science, it was done by someone.

Such a joke.

Also why are we only getting measurements for 4 colts balls? What happened to the other 8?

Ross12 said:

Why doesn't the report mention that the four Colts' balls both had mostly also fallen below spec, and also did not lose as much pressure as science would suggest?

Wells' conclusion is essentially: "Science says X amount of pressure loss should occur. The Pats experienced >X, the Colts experienced <X. The Pats probably tampered, don't worry about the Colts."

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Officials stated from memory (cause this is how it should have gone down) that the Colts footballs started off "around 13 psi" and the Patriots 12.5

As far as meeting regulation goes, every Colt football started off .5 psi higher than the Patriots.

Last sentence on page 7 (page 11 in the PDF):

Only four Colts balls were tested because the officials were running out of time before the start of the second half.

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That's laughable.

From the Exponent report:
"One of the gauges had been used by Walt Anderson to measure or set the pressure in the balls prior to the game, and both gauges belonged to Walt Anderson. "

Given that the gauges were consistently off by > 1/3 psi, this means they don't really know what the starting point was (i.e. 12.5 psi could have been about 12.1 psi).

The report also observes that personnel "probably" swapped gauges between measuring the Patriots game balls and the Colts balls at halftime. They don't know this happened, but they infer it based on the sudden switch in whose measurements were higher. It also means that the Patriots' balls were measured first and then the Colts' balls were measured - after they had been in the locker room longer. This was hardly a well-controlled experiment.

Danny said:

Bottom of page 7 (page 11 in the PDF):


That's laughable.

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What a clown car....

Ones thing for sure all the quarterbacks are pissed off at the Colts they won't be able to have the footballs how they want them to be

Danny said:

Bottom of page 7 (page 11 in the PDF):


That's laughable.

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Also, I haven't read through the entire Appendix - but don't they make a point of the longer they were in the locker room, the higher the PSI will read. Clearly the Colts balls were tested last.

Danger Zone said:

Officials stated from memory (cause this is how it should have gone down) that the Colts footballs started off "around 13 psi" and the Patriots 12.5

As far as meeting regulation goes, every Colt football started off .5 psi higher than the Patriots.

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Right, but according to the numbers Wells is supplying, the Patriots' balls experienced greater pressure loss than he expected scientifically, yet it is never stated that the Colts' balls experienced a fair deal less pressure loss than should have happened scientifically.

If you are going to look at the Patriots' balls losing too much pressure and draw the conclusion "they probably deflated them", then should you not draw the conclusion with the Colts' balls not losing enough pressure that "they probably inflated them"?

Danny said:

Last sentence on page 7 (page 11 in the PDF):


That's laughable.

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i.e.

8 balls were under inflated as much as the Patriots ball but we chose to ignore them and lie to Wells.

F*CKING JOKE

So, am I the only one that thinks the text messages makes it look more like these guys don't like Brady and could have easily done something on their own to mess with the balls? To me (to be fair I didn't read every single word of the report but most of it), it sounds like Brady *****es when the balls have too much air and their all pissed off and have the "watch this" attitude. I'm not saying Brady didn't know anything, but I don't see how this report proves otherwise. Those text messages makes it look plausible that they did it on their own. But again I guess I need to read the whole thing tonight, maybe there's something I'm missing....

Ok. page 163, of the 11 balls measured by Prioleau, 8 were above the maximum deflation expected, to 11.27 PSI by a temp drop of 72 degrees to 48 degrees. So is it the NFL's contention that just 3 balls were deflated? This makes no sense.

ANGR89 said:

So, am I the only one that thinks the text messages makes it look more like these guys don't like Brady and could have easily done something on their own to mess with the balls?

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I don't think the text messages support that.