Patriots Release Additional Deflategate E-mails

https://wellsreportcontext.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/nep_psi_excerpts-from-emails-5_15_15.pdf

Mostly having to do with the request for the 5th interview with McNally.

So, even after taking the balls to the bathroom just before game time and apparently deflating the balls.

The NFL then again ALLOWED him to do so after halftime when the balls were inflated to proper psi?


That. Doesnt. Make. Sense.

This new evidence further supports the contention that a full and impartial assessment should completely exonerate the Patriots, and that Kraft should pursue this outcome with every means available to him, including pursuing legal action against the league. If Kraft does not pursue every means to overturn the league's decision and penalties, then he will not have done everything in his considerable power to ensure the team will compete on an even playing field and the perception of the team and of Brady in particular will be forever tainted. Time for Kraft to take sides. Either we are or we are not all Patriots.

I found the excerpt about the refs re-measuring significant. Goldberg states that their video footage shows that it took each referee over 60 seconds PER BALL to check the PSI and adjust it if needed... This is wildly inconsistent with the notion that McNally were somehow able to adjust 12 footballs to a lower PSI on a sloped bathroom floor in 95 seconds. This implies that it is taking McNally 7 seconds to do something that it took experienced referees over 60 seconds to do, in a more confined and less conducive space.

Further, in my estimation you'd have to reduce that 95 seconds to at most 80 seconds when considering that it would take him at least 3 seconds to dump all the balls on the floor (assuming they all magically stayed in one spot and did not roll/bounce away), and 12 seconds to put all 12 balls back in the bag one at a time (1 second per ball). So now you're looking at about 6.5 seconds per ball adjustment.... This is to say, it's being implied that McNally is somehow doing this task roughly 9 times faster than a seasoned referee. Is that at all logical???

They measured the balls at the end of the game right?

This shows definitively that the ONLY time tampering could have occurred was during the 95 second bathroom visit. And the Wells report never shows proof that this can be accomplished in 95 seconds.

So the Wells report shows neither opportunity nor motive (since never did Brady ask for balls out of spec).

A brain dead monkey could win this case.

Haley said:

This shows definitively that the ONLY time tampering could have occurred was during the 95 second bathroom visit. And the Wells report never shows proof that this can be accomplished in 95 seconds.

So the Wells report shows neither opportunity nor motive (since never did Brady ask for balls out of spec).

A brain dead monkey could win this case.

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Hell Roger dodger could win it if he was representing our side...well maybe with help...maybe

Essentially their report boils down to: we think McNally is a mystic ninja capable of manipulating the time/space continuum to perform ball deflation, and our reasoning for believing this is based on a couple text messages.

So according to Ted Wells, if you call yourself "the deflator", you must have magic ball deflating powers. Just because you say it does not make it so, Ted. Same as when you call yourself "independent"...

http://espn.go.com/blog/new-england.../quick-hit-thoughts-around-the-patriots-nfl-2

3. Some have asked what Kraft accomplished by launching the website Wellsreportcontext.com on Thursday, because it’s not as if the NFL will be reducing any penalties because of it. In fact, the website probably only intensifies hard feelings between the team and league office. But one needs only review Kraft’s remarks in recent months to understand the purpose of the website -- it’s a legacy piece. With conviction that his team did nothing wrong, and that the NFL predetermined the outcome of its investigation from the start, Kraft simply wanted to put the team’s version of events on the public record. Some might believe them. Others might not. But for an owner that feels his team was railroaded by the NFL, the website was deemed the best avenue to tell his team’s side of the story and formally introduce it to any public debate right now and into the future. My feeling is that the Patriots’ fight most likely stops there; I’d be surprised if Kraft filed a lawsuit against the NFL.

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Look at the chronology. It's now 17 March, 2 months after the Wells investigation was commissioned, and Ted Wells is getting anxious because he hasn't found a smoking gun...nor any hard evidence of tampering. He's getting desperate because the media is starting to wonder when the outcome will be in hand. So he thinks maybe he can browbeat a confession out of McNally, using threatening and strong-arm tactics, by pulling on the only thread of evidence he still has (the text messages). The Patriots, however, are wise to him. They know full well there's nothing to find...even reminding Wells that he wouldn't have such opportunity for multiple interviews (i.e. depositions) if this had been a litigated case. So Wells get's upset, vowing to "get" the Patriots, and makes a big deal about their "uncooperativeness" in the Wells Report... because that's the only thing he could hang his hat on.

How long before people start with the "Patriots need to stop spewing facts and man up and accept their punishment."?

This Rest Room scenario doesn't make sense for other reason also.

If McNally's intent was to secretly deflate footballs why would he go into a
public rest room where anyone could walk in and see what he is doing. Walk
in and see footballs on the floor and him standing there with a needle in a football.
Crazy!

I understand that Kraft is just 1 of 32 owners and that the NFL owners have almost no recourse against league sanctions. That said, if this website is all he does as a reaction I'll be livid. I think the owners meetings the next few days will be interesting, and I wouldn't be surprised if Kraft at least tries to get a no confidence vote.

I love this, eye for an eye, like the NFL did to us, now we do to them. Slow leaks bringing forth the truth while making the NFL twist in the wind.

Pay backs a b!tch

JR4 said:

This Rest Room scenario doesn't make sense for other reason also.

If McNally's intent was to secretly deflate footballs why would he go into a
public rest room where anyone could walk in and see what he is doing. Walk
in and see footballs on the floor and him standing there with a needle in a football.
Crazy!

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He locked the door behind him. I really question the Wells report's estimates on how long it would take to lock the door, remove 12 balls, deflate them in an organized manner such that you do each ball once and only once, get them back in, andunlock the door. In 95 seconds.

is it 12 or 24 balls that went into the bathroom.

JR4 said:

This Rest Room scenario doesn't make sense for other reason also.

If McNally's intent was to secretly deflate footballs why would he go into a
public rest room where anyone could walk in and see what he is doing. Walk
in and see footballs on the floor and him standing there with a needle in a football.
Crazy!

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But he LOCKED THE DOOR! GUILTY!
j/k

I believe it was a single person restroom (1 sink/1 toilet.) You could lock the door so you wouldn't have to worry about someone walking in while you were relieving yourself.

sphen22 said:

I love this, eye for an eye, like the NFL did to us, now we do to them. Slow leaks bringing forth the truth while making the NFL twist in the wind.

Pay backs a b!tch

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More than an eye for an eye.

One other point of interest: these emails state that they allowed Wells to re-interview Jastremski despite Wells not revealing why he needed to do so. Upon that interview they discovered it was simply to ask about texts that he had not bothered to read prior to his previous interviews. So when Wells asks to see McNally again, the Pats said "hold the phone here buddy, you didn't have anything new with Jastremski, we aren't giving you McNally again just to berate him unless you've got more than what you had last time."

Of course Wells had nothing new so another interview never came about. However Wells then labels the Patriots uncooperative for this, despite the fact that they had an agreement in place for only one interview per person, and had already broken that agreement by allowing Wells to interview Jastremski a second time, despite him having no good reason to do so. So when they say "enough is enough, follow your own agreement" then Wells says they're uncooperative... Unbelievable.

This is like getting pulled over by a cop for speeding, allowing him to search your car despite him having no real reason to, but saying no when he then asks to probe your *** to check for drugs... The cop then labels you as resisting arrest and says it's more probable than not you had coke up your butt because you wouldn't let him check.

Doesn anyone know if its true that Farve refused to hand over his cell phone during the NFL investigation into whether he had sexual harassed a reporter by sending her indecent photos of his little farve?