Does Belichick really feel this way?

SuperStang83 said:

I apologize, I'm not from the Boston area and really have no idea how reliable Borges is, but reading this article gave me an uneasy feeling. Could someone please elaborate and expand on this please?
http://www.csnne.com/new-england-patriots/borges-im-told-belichick-never-believed-brady

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Borges has had a real hatred for the Pats since BB refused to allow Bledsoe, to return as QB after he had healed from his injury and then traded him to Buffalo.

It wasn't that BB did not believe Brady it was that BB did not know anything about the Ball prep as it had been given over to the QBs when the league had agreed they could prepare them as they desired. So BB had no knowledge with which he could defend Brady and had to let him defend himself. Also BB is old school i do not think he agreed with what the NFL allowed the QBs to do to prepare the balls. But i do not think he ever questioned TB12s veracity.

This Quote from the article :
"They know nothing's done with those balls that the quarterback doesn't want done."

This is the only quote that is based in fact and Brady has the balls prepared to his liking no where is it even intimated that he liked them at a PSI level that were non-regulation. And Wells went back yrs. talking to former backup QBs and such.
The PSI levels measured at half time showed 11 of the 12 balls when measured by the gauge used by the head ref. to set the balls pregame were within the levels expected when the ideal gas low governing PSI loss due to temp change is calculated. So the balls must have been inflated to 12.5 at the beginning of the game.

The thing is Belichick's silence will fuel this opinion. I think he is silent because of Spygate and since he was exonerated, him publicly defending Brady can only cloud the issue.

Does Belichick really feel this way?

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I don't know.
I don't care.

Innocence has never been the issue for me. The absence of due process, and a ****ty 'report' about a non-issue, has been, and continues to be, what matters. Tom Brady could be personally deflating the footballs on the sidelines and I wouldn't care.

Besides the fact that Borges has clearly fabricated sources in the past, look at what he said, with special emphasis on the "because".

In this case, what he's saying is:

1. Some people have shared with me the opinion that Brady cheated, and I find their opinion persuasive.
2. Despite how much I bash him, BB is smart enough to have heard that opinion too.

By the way, when I wrote to the Boston Globe and pointed out an example of something that Borges wrote which:

1. Was self-evidently wrong.
2. Was attributed to multiple sources ...
3. ... who therefore must have been fictional,

I got a response that said "Thank you for being so courteous in your criticism of Borges, unlike the many other people who have written in."

But he didn't get fired until later, when there was egregious plagiarism.

I've no idea why BB is silent, there's lots of possible reasons. Many believable. Could he think Brady did something? Yeah, I suppose, maybe. I think a couple things are assured:

1. Borges has absolutely no credibility. If it was possible to have negative cred, he would. So it doesn't mean anything unless it comes from someone else.
2. If Brady did tamper with PSI, the penalty still wouldn't make any sense at all. Even if he was evasive and didn't cooperate. So if TB12 were guilty it wouldn't have any impact on my opinion of Kraft, Goodell, or anything else. I'd be a little disappointed in TB12, but not even very much because who cares about PSI. If it can be thrown, it's a valid football.

The worst part about all this is people are still looking for Brady to be guilty or innocent and looking for who knows what about it. This diverts us from the very real fact that the punishment is ridiculous, there was no game impact, and ownership bailed on the team.

Just blah.

RobAllan said:

The worst part about all this is people are still looking for Brady to be guilty or innocent and looking for who knows what about it. This diverts us from the very real fact that the punishment is ridiculous, there was no game impact, and ownership bailed on the team.

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Throw in "the evidence is clearly insufficient", and you've got it nailed.

This is great news. The one thing you can count on when it comes to the Boston media is that if Ron Borges says then it isn't true. No one has been wrong more often than Borges, and it is almost impossible to come up with instances where he was right. Now we know Belichick backs Brady 100%.

Thanks Ron.

RobAllan said:

The worst part about all this is people are still looking for Brady to be guilty or innocent and looking for who knows what about it. This diverts us from the very real fact that the punishment is ridiculous, there was no game impact, and ownership bailed on the team.

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Worth saying again, louder.

A kitten dies every time Borges publishes an article. True story.

Any random poster here has exactly as many sources in Foxboro as Borges does.

Belichick isn't commenting on this because he already did comment on this, and he thought it was a waste of time then. I expect he will comment on it again at some point once he's in front of the media and they refuse to let it go, but not before he has to.

This fanciful story from Borges has now been picked up and is running in blurb form in my building's elevators -- Captivate network.

Basically just because the story is out there means your average idiot believed it is true.

BB is likely reconsidering this whole Woody Johnson thing..after what Kraft did.

Jackson 2 said:

OK, you did the right thing - you asked. All you need to know is this: Ron Borges is a disgraced writer who was fired from his job as a writer for the Boston Globe for plagiarizing twice. He, has a self-admitted hatred for Bill Belichick which has burned white hot for 2 decades and he disliked and discredited Brady right from the start because he was and is pals with Drew Bledsoe. In anything remotely dealing with Belichick and Brady his opinion never counts because he hates them both.

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Yup. Borges wrote in his old Globe column that letting Bledsoe go was a mistake, letting Terry Glenn go was a mistake, letting Lawyer Milloy go was a mistake.

He also wrote one of the most absurd columns about football I have ever read. He said that a team is more likely to win a Super Bowl when that team must play during the first round (bye week). His theory being that when a team takes a week off, they get soft.

This is demonstrably false, for anyone willing to look it up. The Pats have won all four of their Super Bowls in years when they got the first-round bye.

This man writes about football for a living.

Borges? *Exits thread*

BigPeteG said:

BB is likely reconsidering this whole Woody Johnson thing..after what Kraft did.

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Ok I know you are joking, but I think Kraft has just shown cowardice/poor long-term judgement from our perspective. A book could be written on Woody's shortcomings/sins. BB had a lucky escape from the Jests (although I am sure he had some idea of what he was escaping). Plus, as someone who was never a fan of the Krafts, BB has much more chance of being grateful to Kraft for leaving the football side of the PATS to him, even after the 'camera in the wrong place' farce.

SuperStang83 said:

I apologize, I'm not from the Boston area and really have no idea how reliable Borges is, but reading this article gave me an uneasy feeling. Could someone please elaborate and expand on this please?
http://www.csnne.com/new-england-patriots/borges-im-told-belichick-never-believed-brady

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If you are building a list of media personnel you can trust please put those two , Felger and Borges, at the bottom of it. These guys have no understanding of the science in the Wells report and continue to butcher it and their whole schtick is to try to get "views" by saying provocative BS.