The Published Wells Report.

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


But but Ted Wells says a person can deflate 13 balls in 1:40. NFL refs couldn't check 24 balls twice in 12 minutes?

F*CKING JOKE

bradybunch321 said:

Are people just going to ignore this? I'm not saying Brady's guilty, but it definitely doesn't help and in the court of public opinion he pretty much is guilty

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This is easily explainable. Let's say you were a QB and someone had levied the charge of breaking the rules against you. What's the first thing you would do? Find out whose responsible for the chain of custody for the balls, get their number, and then call them to ask them what they know about this whole situation.

Adam Kaufman ‏@AdamMKaufman 4m4 minutes ago
Still sifting through Wells report. Find it hard to believe Tom Brady will be hit with more than a fine. Not sure there's enough to suspend.

I wonder how many lawyers tom and giselle could bring to a lawsuit?

I wonder how much this will affect Brady's legacy in the long run. I hope he fights this.

Reading through all these posts and excerpts reinforces my basic issue with this whole thing: The underlying notion that management and testing of game balls is a very precise and consistent process done to very precise and consistent standards with extremely precise and consistent tools. It is not.

JMC00 said:

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

Anyone who believes this is a complete moron.

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Even if it is true, it just looks ridiculous. How do you draw conclusions when you can't even set the same sample size?

If it took the entire HT break to measure the balls, doesn't that dismiss the claim that they could be so precisely deflated in a minute and a half in the first place?

Tom will be hit with a fine for failing to cooperate fully, not because of his involvement.

Ok I'll try to listen the 2 clowns

That damn Brady. Trying to gain an unfair advantage by deflating the balls, even though he played better with the properly inflated balls in the second half and in the SB.

This whole thing is absurd. Hopefully they don't suspend him for such a silly thing.

rlcarr said:

Also, "more probable than not" is the standard used in basically all civil cases.

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No, it's a preponderance of the evidence.

JMC00 said:

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

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point 10 on page 7:

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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NEWSFLASH:

Brady with properly inflated and closely watched balls went onto shred the Colts in the 2nd half and the supposed best defense since the '85 Bears.

I feel like i've been hit in the gut!
My wife thinks I am crazy.
I will definitely not text her any possibly threatening joke emails about a spanking which probably indicate a possible assault and battery

I read it and I think it all boils down to the fact that Brady claimed he did not know who McNally was or what he did. The report didn't find this plausible. Coupled with the text messages ....... they get a "Brady was probably responsible" outcome.

bradybunch321 said:

Are people just going to ignore this? I'm not saying Brady's guilty, but it definitely doesn't help and in the court of public opinion he pretty much is guilty

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Perhaps there should be a moratorium on new members for a week or so to avoid the worst of the trolls.

RayClay said:

No, it's a preponderance of the evidence.

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It's the same thing. Both are the famous "50.1%"

SVN said:

Where are the measurements of all the footballs by the refs ? Is it in the report ? .

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From one of the tweets at https://twitter.com/jeffphowe . Notice the descrepancy between the two gauges. And apparently we're being dragged through the mud because or 1 or 2 tenths difference between the Colts and Pats' footballs.

My question is this. Why if Brady, Gostkowski et al refused to provide text messages did McNally agree to it? I assume he was perfectly within his rights to do the same?