Florio theorizes the refs only checked 4 Colts balls in fear most of their balls were under 12.5 PSI

From his latest column:

Some believe that the testing of the Colts footballs ended not because time was running short, but because the air pressure readings from one of the two gauges showed that three of the four Colts balls tested under 12.5 PSI. As the theory/hypothesis goes, one or more people supervising the process at that point didn’t want to know the results for all 12 Colts footballs, once it appeared that 75 percent of those tested had moved from at or above 13 PSI before the game to less than 12.5 PSI at halftime.

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http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/05/14/questions-remain-about-colts-footballs-at-halftime/

He questions the timeline of the half how they had time to test and inflate all 11 of the Patriots balls.

"A middle aged ball boy can deflate 12 balls in 90 seconds in a bathroom. However, we could not manage to simply test 23 balls in a half hour, we only got 15, 11 of which were the Patriots'. However, we somehow found the time to reinflate all 11 Patriots balls."

Either there's a break in the space-time continuum here or someone is full of s***.

Now who would have been there who holds a grudge against the Patriots?

Oh...that name MIKE KENSIL pops up once again...

Rob0729 said:

From his latest column:

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/05/14/questions-remain-about-colts-footballs-at-halftime/

He questions the timeline of the half how they had time to test and inflate all 11 of the Patriots balls.

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They say they were done with the Patriots balls at 6 minutes into the half.

This is according to the Wells report.

What were they doing for the other 14 minutes?

Florio has a good point I didn't consider.

By the way, 100% of the Colts balls tested were under the threshold. Not 75%. The 4th ball tested was taken out of consideration and was not used in the study because the gauge with the lesser readings on every other ball suddenly jumped to .4 PSI higher than the gauge with the higher readings. It was an anomaly and made no sense. So they chucked it.

Which, by the way, may be another reason entirely for them to stop testing footballs. If the gauges are so screwy.

Someone really and I mean really needs to grill Wells about how the Pata tampered with 11 balls in 90 seconds but the nfl couldn't test and fix 22 balls in 13 minutes

That alone us enough to make this all go away

The Occam's Razor explanation: Pat's balls measured, found to be low. Pat's balls inflated to around 13 PSI. They decide to measure Colts balls as a control, stick four of them and see that they're coming in around 12.5, decide 'close enough' because the half is about to start and that's that. No one there knew about the ideal gas law, and I don't blame them for it.

But this explanation suggests the Pats balls were measured early, a gap was present, then the colts balls were measured late. It suggest that the Colts balls had as much as 10 minutes in a 72 degree room to normalize, whereas the Pats balls had 1-4 minutes. There's pretty hard, confirmed science around balls re-inflating, it takes about 15 minutes to normalize. The pressure in wet balls--as Palm Beach has pointed out--will actually drop slightly before increasing because of evaporative effects within the balls.

So with all this said, the PSI measurements of BOTH the logo and non-logo gauges can easily be explained through science and timeline. I'm not buy that the Colts balls were found to be low so they stopped, I honestly don't think they were trying to catch the Pats red handed but that they saw ~12.5 or higher for most of the Colts balls and figured 'good enough'. The Pats balls were mid-11's, even high-10's, that's a pretty big gap. But it's ALL reasonable if the science is done correctly.

There was no serious investigation of ball pressure because the NFL has never been really interested in ball pressure.

Ross12 said:

"A middle aged ball boy can deflate 12 balls in 90 seconds in a bathroom. However, we could not manage to simply test 23 balls in a half hour, we only got 15, 11 of which were the Patriots'. However, we somehow found the time to reinflate all 11 Patriots balls."

Either there's a break in the space-time continuum here or someone is full of s***.

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NFL offices are bigger on the inside.

This is like the scene in "JFK" when they are hovering over JFK the generals are telling the doctors to stop touching the body.

General: "That isn't necessary"
Doctor: "Who is in charge here?"
Mike Kensil: "I am"...(military drums beating for dramatic effect)

Florio keeps banging the drum of healthy skepticism. Sure it's just for clicks, but I am starting to like the guy a little.

He even chipped away at the text message evidence in a column today, saying that McNally seems pretty hostile to Brady, saying "F*** Tom, F*** him" several times. Thus it should have been pretty easy to get McNally to implicate Tom, if he had been doing something illegal based on TB's wishes.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/05/14/why-didnt-mcnally-blame-brady/

Good job by Florio, is good to see some in the media having healthy skepticism instead of the b rush to judgment when the prosecutor (Ted Wells) finished his case.

It's our turn now so keep banging away at the results.

Ivan said:

Good job by Florio, is good to see some in the media having healthy skepticism instead of the b rush to judgment when the prosecutor (Ted Wells) finished his case.

It's our turn now so keep banging away at the results.

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Say what you want about Florio (he is still a excitable, mindless parrot with a megaphone) but the man has a lot of people who read his stuff and is very visible.

What I don't understand is why in the world the two refs didn't just split the measurements. We all know that there were two measurements recorded per ball, why wouldn't I ref measure all Pats footballs while the other measure all Colts footballs, and then switch....I mean how can the NFL legitimately claim no bias against the Patriots when they clearly targeted the Pats footballs in the measurements. Or maybe someone (Blandino) was directing these activities...

Palm Beach Pats Fan said:

Florio keeps banging the drum of healthy skepticism. Sure it's just for clicks, but I am starting to like the guy a little.

He even chipped away at the text message evidence in a column today, saying that McNally seems pretty hostile to Brady, saying "F*** Tom, F*** him" several times. Thus it should have been pretty easy to get McNally to implicate Tom, if he had been doing something illegal based on TB's wishes.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/05/14/why-didnt-mcnally-blame-brady/

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I do appreciate Florio's effort here (makes me sick to say that), but unfortunately I think this particular theory is very easy to debunk. Potential response from Wells: I didn't get the texts until after my 1st interview. That's exactly what I was planning on doing to McNally in my second interview and i needed it to be in person to be effective. But the Patriots wouldn't let me do it.

There are many good arguments about the texts and what they are worth, but I don't think this one in particular is one of them.

This can be either more evidence of intent, or incompetence.

Florio seems pissed off. I like it.
An enjoyable bit from the other day, ICYMI:

http://wp.me/p14QSB-9LSF

Think of how different the narrative would have been if, in the early days of the scandal, the prevailing information from one of the largest sports-media outlets in America had been not that 10 of the 12 balls were two pounds under the minimum but that all 12 balls (including the one that had been intercepted by Jackson) tested within the range consistent with the application of the Ideal Gas Law...

Also, think of how different the narrative would have been if, in the early days of the scandal, the league had acknowledged that the officials used two different gauges with dramatically different readings generated...

For now, though, it’s clear that this investigation proceeded aggressively despite a history of less-than-zealous attention to air pressure, an apparent lack of immediate understanding regarding the Ideal Gas Law, and a non-accidental attempt to make the tampering seem more obvious than the facts suggest it was. And that makes it hard not to wonder what other flaws may be lurking within the 243-page report and the underlying evidence on which it was based.

Rob0729 said:

From his latest column:



http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/05/14/questions-remain-about-colts-footballs-at-halftime/

He questions the timeline of the half how they had time to test and inflate all 11 of the Patriots balls.

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Someone ask him how nfl thinks that pats deflated footballs in 90s in a bathroom but the refs didnt have enough time in the half to check all the colts balls.

and this

“This isn’t about the Colts footballs,” someone possibly may have declared when realizing that the measurements from the Colts footballs was muddying the narrative that the Patriots had been caught cheating.

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has to be kensil

If ball pressure was so important why doesn't the league use calibrated gages that are periodically tested.

The fact that two gages used to test footballs could vary so widely tells the truth of just how important it really is, unless of course, it becomes a tool that the NFL can use to hammer the Pats.

SVN said:

Someone ask him how nfl thinks that pats deflated footballs in 90s in a bathroom but the refs didnt have enough time in the half to check all the colts balls.

and this

has to be kensil

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It isn't about the Colts' balls until people bring up that according to the gauge Anderson remembered using that the deflation does fall in the range of what Exponent said was the range for the ideal gas law causing the deflation by the weather. Then the argument is "That doesn't explain why the Patriots' balls deflated more than the Colts' balls".

SVN said:

Someone ask him how nfl thinks that pats deflated footballs in 90s in a bathroom but the refs didnt have enough time in the half to check all the colts balls.

and this

has to be kensil

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Same thing that skinny Ron Jeremy said in his report.