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OK my take on how we got to this point with deflategate.
My operating assumptions, which will be explained and questions which will be answered.
1) Brady did NOTHING WRONG
The balls behaved as they should given the Atmospheric conditions.
If Brady wanted the balls inflated <12.5 psi, why tell Jawerski to deliver them to the refs @12.5 psi if he wanted McNalley to deflate them anyway?
Brady is a perfectionist, he wouldn't wanted the psi varying from ball to ball, if the balls are being deflated in90 secs in the bathroom it is extremely unlike the psi would be consistent from ball to ball.
2) there was a sting in place to "get the Patriots"
The letter to the NFL, from the Colts requesting the refs to be alert, likely gamesmanship on the part of the Colts, given how the Pats had destroyed them the past couple of years. Kensil saw his opportunity to get back at BB and the hated Patriots.
NFL doesn't disclose to the Patriots preface that the Colts had registered a concern about the inflation of footballs.
Kensil's reaction when the Val's were less than 12.5 psi "We weighed the balls, you are in big fu@@ing trouble."
Blandino lying about being informed of questions about ball inflation issue raised by the Colts. He claimed before the SB that the issue came to the leagues,attention during the game by a Colts employee. The Wells report verified that the league and Blandino that the Colts sent a letter about ball inflation prior to the game.
There are leaks to Mortensen about 11 of 12 footballs being 2psi below the spec. As the wels report documented none of the balls were close to 2 psi low. The NFL knew the reading based on the halftime measurements, and did nothing to correct the exaggerated and false information that drove the story and more importantly public perception. We will also note that the league kept the Patriots in the dark about the real measurement for months.
I don' t believe Goodell was in on the sting, this was an operation by his NY Jets crew Kensil, Giadri ect, as we see from kensil' quote he didn't understand the difference between weight and pressure.
Things were going great then physics got in the way. By jan24 the Headsmart Labs started going viral, national media were being made aware of the Ideal Gas Law (our very own Palm Beach Pats Fan educated Peter King on the Physics of footballs.
So the story had taken off as the NFL FO cabal had hoped but the narrative looked like it could go off the rails, it was science vs the leaked info. By them the NFL Cabal realized that if the real measurements got out they were hosed.
Enter Ted Wells 'Independent Investigator' around Jan 26. By now we all know of Welles's firm many dealing with and Millions of billings collected from the NFL. He is anything but independent.
Months later he produced the work product Goodell has paid millions for. As we have noted he tortured to data to try to establish that perhaps the balls we .3 psi below where the IGL would predict. By using Anderson 'best recollection' of the balls psi preface as gospel, but not his 'best recollection' of which gauge he used. Especially funny since the gauge with the bent pin & logo would have been sorta distinctive compared to a non damaged gauge.
IMHO the purpose of the Wells investigation was to protect Goodell, nothing more, nothing less.
If it were to come to light that the Patriots were the target of a sting by the NFL front office,ie Goodel's minions. He would have bee toast he would have lost his job as commissioner, it wouldn't have mattered if it was Kensil's sting, he would have taken the fall for the 'crimes' of his underlings.
Brady's reputation and the Patriots reputation were just collateral damage.
When idiots in the media protest 'why would the NFL want to suspend one of it's marquee players?
They didn't want to, they were hoping to snare BB, but when they realize there was nothing was done, Goodell needed a way out. Brady takes it in the throat and the Pats get hosed to make the mob happy and protect Goodell, mission accomplished.
This is why Brady sues the league and we get discovery Kensil, Goodell, Giardi, Blandino and the rest under oath and they're ail and cell phones examined, Brady isn't the one worried about what might come out, the NFL is terrified of what can be brought to light.
This is being composed on an iPad sorry for the typos no rambling nature of this vent. But this is what I think the facts point yo.
My operating assumptions, which will be explained and questions which will be answered.
1) Brady did NOTHING WRONG
The balls behaved as they should given the Atmospheric conditions.
If Brady wanted the balls inflated <12.5 psi, why tell Jawerski to deliver them to the refs @12.5 psi if he wanted McNalley to deflate them anyway?
Brady is a perfectionist, he wouldn't wanted the psi varying from ball to ball, if the balls are being deflated in90 secs in the bathroom it is extremely unlike the psi would be consistent from ball to ball.
2) there was a sting in place to "get the Patriots"
The letter to the NFL, from the Colts requesting the refs to be alert, likely gamesmanship on the part of the Colts, given how the Pats had destroyed them the past couple of years. Kensil saw his opportunity to get back at BB and the hated Patriots.
NFL doesn't disclose to the Patriots preface that the Colts had registered a concern about the inflation of footballs.
Kensil's reaction when the Val's were less than 12.5 psi "We weighed the balls, you are in big fu@@ing trouble."
Blandino lying about being informed of questions about ball inflation issue raised by the Colts. He claimed before the SB that the issue came to the leagues,attention during the game by a Colts employee. The Wells report verified that the league and Blandino that the Colts sent a letter about ball inflation prior to the game.
There are leaks to Mortensen about 11 of 12 footballs being 2psi below the spec. As the wels report documented none of the balls were close to 2 psi low. The NFL knew the reading based on the halftime measurements, and did nothing to correct the exaggerated and false information that drove the story and more importantly public perception. We will also note that the league kept the Patriots in the dark about the real measurement for months.
I don' t believe Goodell was in on the sting, this was an operation by his NY Jets crew Kensil, Giadri ect, as we see from kensil' quote he didn't understand the difference between weight and pressure.
Things were going great then physics got in the way. By jan24 the Headsmart Labs started going viral, national media were being made aware of the Ideal Gas Law (our very own Palm Beach Pats Fan educated Peter King on the Physics of footballs.
So the story had taken off as the NFL FO cabal had hoped but the narrative looked like it could go off the rails, it was science vs the leaked info. By them the NFL Cabal realized that if the real measurements got out they were hosed.
Enter Ted Wells 'Independent Investigator' around Jan 26. By now we all know of Welles's firm many dealing with and Millions of billings collected from the NFL. He is anything but independent.
Months later he produced the work product Goodell has paid millions for. As we have noted he tortured to data to try to establish that perhaps the balls we .3 psi below where the IGL would predict. By using Anderson 'best recollection' of the balls psi preface as gospel, but not his 'best recollection' of which gauge he used. Especially funny since the gauge with the bent pin & logo would have been sorta distinctive compared to a non damaged gauge.
IMHO the purpose of the Wells investigation was to protect Goodell, nothing more, nothing less.
If it were to come to light that the Patriots were the target of a sting by the NFL front office,ie Goodel's minions. He would have bee toast he would have lost his job as commissioner, it wouldn't have mattered if it was Kensil's sting, he would have taken the fall for the 'crimes' of his underlings.
Brady's reputation and the Patriots reputation were just collateral damage.
When idiots in the media protest 'why would the NFL want to suspend one of it's marquee players?
They didn't want to, they were hoping to snare BB, but when they realize there was nothing was done, Goodell needed a way out. Brady takes it in the throat and the Pats get hosed to make the mob happy and protect Goodell, mission accomplished.
This is why Brady sues the league and we get discovery Kensil, Goodell, Giardi, Blandino and the rest under oath and they're ail and cell phones examined, Brady isn't the one worried about what might come out, the NFL is terrified of what can be brought to light.
This is being composed on an iPad sorry for the typos no rambling nature of this vent. But this is what I think the facts point yo.