Sally Jenkins again hammers Goodell and Wells Report

SVN · Jun 17, 2015

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sport...fcbaa6-1456-11e5-89f3-61410da94eb1_story.html

One e-mail exchange, in which Brady complained that some game balls against the New York Jets were ludicrously overinflated. Is this evidence of ill intent? Hardly. Brady’s solution to the over-inflation was to suggest the refs check the rulebook. Not the act of a cheater.

How come there is no coverage of this part I always have wondered.

BradyBranch39 · Jun 17, 2015

new scientific analysis by the American Enterprise Institute, which shows the only inflation problem is in NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell’s head.

DarrylS · Jun 17, 2015

Note to Sally Jenkins et al take it one step further and do an investigation of the hypocrisy and duplicity of the NFL and their obvious bias..

Danger Zone · Jun 17, 2015

AEI says they were "astonished" at how the Wells Report manipulated its statistical findings.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sport...fcbaa6-1456-11e5-89f3-61410da94eb1_story.html

Sally Jenkins said:
The AEI’s report totally rejects the finding that the footballs used by the Patriots in the AFC Championship had a significant drop in air pressure compared to the Colts. But the truly damning sentence is this one, buried in its erudite phrasings and equations: “The Wells report’s statistical analysis cannot be replicated by performing the analysis as described in the report,” the AEI concludes.

Translated into normal English: The math didn’t add up. It’s a standard principle in science: If you can’t replicate a set of results, then there is a problem with them. A flaw or a fraud is at work. Either you made a mistake, or you made it up.

When the AEI analysts looked more closely at how such a mistake could have been made, what they found “astonished” them, says the report’s co-author Stan Veuger. The Wells report “relies on an unorthodox statistical procedure at odds with the methodology the report describes.” Translation: The Wells report said it would use one equation, but then used a different (and weird) equation to arrive at its numbers.

“It was really clumsy,” Veuger says. “It’s the kind of mistake you’d see in freshman statistics class.”

Another plain English phrase possibly applies to all of this:

Falsifying results.

(bold/emphasis is my own)

XLIX · Jun 17, 2015

Goodell is in for a penny, in for a pound. He is too stubborn, arrogant and pig headed to back down at this point. How can he come out and exonerate Brady without exonerating the team as well?

BradyBranch39 · Jun 17, 2015

RayClay · Jun 17, 2015

Ride Sally, Ride.

PatsWickedPissah · Jun 17, 2015

Keep it up! I would have Sally's baby!
Wait!
I'm SO confused.

ViperGTS · Jun 17, 2015

The problem was and is the media. They ran blind and ruined legacies and reputations. Let's hope Goodell comes to his senses soon. If the report is junk and invalid, then they should get the picks back and money. People say that's impossible, and I don't know why.

SVN · Jun 17, 2015

ViperGTS said:
The problem was and is the media. They ran blind and ruined legacies and reputations. Let's hope Goodell comes to his senses soon. If the report is junk and invalid, then they should get the picks back and money. People say that's impossible, and I don't know why.

Because they wouldve read report before it was released , digested it , talked to tom as goodell seems to be inviting now and then decided if it needs punishments or not. Instead they let the media leaks play out, asked the pats to not release the correct numbers when they gave it to them and even gave them the wrong numbers , lied via Dean Blandino saying they didnt know about the 'sting operation' when the email was sent a day before to all, tried to cover up by wells in his conference call saying that the email was ignored....i could go on and on but Iam getting angrier revisiting this crap.

SVN · Jun 17, 2015

Wont be surprised if the NFL now puts out something to bring the smear focus back on the pats.

Brady2Moss · Jun 17, 2015

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BradyFTW! · Jun 17, 2015

ViperGTS said:
The problem was and is the media. They ran blind and ruined legacies and reputations. Let's hope Goodell comes to his senses soon. If the report is junk and invalid, then they should get the picks back and money. People say that's impossible, and I don't know why.

It's not impossible. It will just never happen for the same reason that the Wells Report and subsequent punishments did happen. Because Goodell is a blowhard douchebag with a hard-on for taking down the Pats. And the last thing he'll ever do is willingly undermine his own authority, which giving the picks back would do.

Mack Herron · Jun 17, 2015

Does Goodell stand by the conclusions of the Wells report, dig in and refuse to budge — thus establishing that he’s incapable of fairly considering evidence and is a serial abuser of his powers?
Or does Goodell do the right thing and rescind Brady’s suspension on the basis of the new info in the AEI report — thus admitting that the league spent millions on a railroading farce?

Hmmmm......

Fixit · Jun 17, 2015

RayClay said:
Ride Sally, Ride.

Ice_Ice_Brady · Jun 17, 2015

Every journalist dreams of breaking some huge story or conspiracy, or being one of the few voices of reason who turns out to be correct. Then during one of the (sadly) biggest news stories of the year, there is evidence right under the noses of every journalist in America that shows the majority opinion is dead wrong, yet there are so few Sally Jenkins's out there. Deflategate has caused me to think that journalism is overall about as scummy as the financial industry, and now I understand how totalitarian states can so easily take over the gutless press.

RobertWeathers · Jun 17, 2015

SVN said:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sport...fcbaa6-1456-11e5-89f3-61410da94eb1_story.html

How come there is no coverage of this part I always have wondered.

Doesn't fit the agenda of the NFL or the mediots.

varjao · Jun 17, 2015

This article is heavy and direct to the point, it doesn't even go into the leaks route because that is hard to prove and distraction, it goes direct to the dirty, that is the fact that Wells and Exponent manipulated the data to get the results and direction they wanted.

I keep thinking that if this indeed goes to court and it's proven to be a fraud, what's going to happen to Wells? Will he be able to keep practicing? Do Lawyers need to get a license to be able to practice Law in America? Here in Brazil after getting the bachelor degree they still need to go through a two phase exam to get their licenses.

Although he was hired to do a private job for a private company and he was more in the role of a consultant than a Lawyer, his credibility goes down the toilet. If they bring back the Miami investigation and Jonathan Martin backs up all that **** that that o-line coach threw in the fan in a radio show a month or so ago that Wells omitted from his report, then there is strong evidence that Wells is a professional lackey.

I don't know how the law applies in America but I believe judges tend to work on sports litigation with different eyes like it's a world apart from the real world, and because of that impose light penalties and more revoking things than anything, because the reality is that this is as fraudulent as it gets and in a litigation between "real world" companies with similar situation people would face jail time for cooking data like this. Sorry if I'm a little off the track here.

RobertWeathers · Jun 17, 2015

Ice_Ice_Brady said:
Deflategate has caused me to think that journalism is overall about as scummy as the financial industry

...and for those of us who have friends in bonds and commodity markets, you are dealing with some seriously ethically-challenged people. Not to stereotype them too badly but sheesh.

RobertWeathers · Jun 17, 2015

Mack Herron said:
Hmmmm......

I posted in another thread that Reiss said that during the Bountygate appeal that Tags and the NFL were the ones who presented the AEI stuff - not the Saints.

With that said, the NFL didn't piss away $5m on a Bountygate investigation.

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