Will Belichick have opponent's balls tested?

I was encouraged with a healthy Easley, #1 Brown, and other pass rushers added, but with the addition of Spikes, I'm assured that every opposing team will get their balls checked this year.

RayClay said:

I guess that's the kind of love Ray Rice put on his girlfriend? This has become even more absurd.

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Absolutely correct. Kraft is a victim of ongoing abuse which he willing to absorb for monetary reasons just like Mrs. Rice.

flasox27 said:

Absolutely correct. Kraft is a victim of ongoing abuse which he willing to absorb for monetary reasons just like Mrs. Rice.

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The difference is that rice is bound by the laws of his state and the United States. goodell is not, within the league..

RayClay said:

The difference is that rice is bound by the laws of his state and the United States. goodell is not, within the league..

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I guess being the whipping boy for Goodell and Kraft's partners is the price for being tolerated and Kraft has accepted it with a hug for his master. Too bad he doesn't have Woody Johnson's status in the fraternity where an actual violation of rules is met with a slap on the wrist.

I don't think BB gives a rats ass about any of this stuff. He just wants to coach. And win championships.

I can't imagine that Belichick would waste a nanosecond doing something when (a) it won't have any impact on the outcome of the game, (b) nobody outside NE would believe the results since the test was done by "Belicheat" and (c) other teams, pre-warned, could figure out a way to game the testing, as other posters have observed.

In short, I don't think playing sideline games is BB's idea of "we're on to next season."

Now, if you ask me whether I think he's going to run up the score on Indy...on the field...well, that's another matter.

BlueThunder said:

Kraft is looking out for his investment.....evidently he doesn't realize that his fan base is a huge part of that investment.

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I think he does realize that. I just think he's made a calculation that any damage will be short-lived and not impact his revenues or the value of his investment in the Franchise in the long run. Only time will tell whether that was the right calculation. My guess is he's probably right.

VectorPrime said:

Belichick should be as passively aggressive and obstinate as he possibly can. Demand that the refs call out opponents on breaking the most obscure rules, respond to questions in the press conferences how they must have won because the other team must have forgot to tamper with their footballs, things like that.

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Nah. That won't get him anything but more criticism. He should just do his talking on the field.

Ross12 said:

I am hoping that the Brady legal team brings a ball, a pump, a gauge, and a fridge to the courtroom with them. Pump up the ball, rub it as if it were pregame, show its pressure at room temp, then pop it in the fridge. Make your case during the hearing for a couple hours, by which time the ball will have cooled and reached equilibrium. Remove the ball and show the reading again. Case closed.

For best effect, have the judge do the gauging to prove impartiality.

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Bad idea.

The oldest rule of courtroom procedure is never do anything or ask any questions when you aren't 100% certain of the outcome or the answer. So, even if they test the procedure about 1,000 times beforehand with a 99.99% success rate, the League would be within its rights to suggest that it provide the refrigerator, which would be kind of like asking OJ to put the glove on over another glove.

Ross12 said:

I am hoping that the Brady legal team brings a ball, a pump, a gauge, and a fridge to the courtroom with them. Pump up the ball, rub it as if it were pregame, show its pressure at room temp, then pop it in the fridge. Make your case during the hearing for a couple hours, by which time the ball will have cooled and reached equilibrium. Remove the ball and show the reading again. Case closed.

For best effect, have the judge do the gauging to prove impartiality.

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You'd also have to have every person in the room fall on the ball a few times, and maybe have the judge spike it...

perhaps everyone associated with this farcical tragi-comedy should be tested for possession of common sense.