A supervisor of officials: "There have been ball inflation issues in past"

Ross12 · Aug 2, 2015

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Um. Officials aren't exactly helping the #NFL on the ball inflation PR battle with #Patriots. (From @MarkKaboly_Trib)

scott99 · Aug 2, 2015

Great find ! The moronic NFL wasted millions to find out balls may leak air, yet they crucify the Pats and portray them as cheaters. I ask myself everyday, why do they do that ?

BelichickFan · Aug 2, 2015

Not surprisingly the NFL missed the obvious solution to this. Let teams use whatever ball inflation they want. Rodgers likes hard. Great. Others like soft. Great. The refs don't need to be checking, inflating, deflating, all QB would be within a reasonable range. You can't throw a truly deflated ball at an NFL level.

patsfan13 · Aug 2, 2015

The measure process if done transparently will embarrass the league. Hopefully reporters will badger the NFL to release the readings when the weather get cold this season.

Great find.

scott99 · Aug 2, 2015

BelichickFan said:
Not surprisingly the NFL missed the obvious solution to this. Let teams use whatever ball inflation they want. Rodgers likes hard. Great. Others like soft. Great. The refs don't need to be checking, inflating, deflating, all QB would be within a reasonable range. You can't throw a truly deflated ball at an NFL level.

Exactly what a somewhat intelligent Jet's fan has said all along in my office. Let them have whatever inflation level they want. Said the whole Deflategate thing is stupid.

RobertWeathers · Aug 2, 2015

Lol. What a 1/2 ass, sham or a house of cards this 10b mess of a league really is.

Rob0729 · Aug 2, 2015

Here is the full article

http://triblive.com/sports/steelers/8801576-74/camp-game-ball#axzz3hfaNU3wu

fair catch fryar · Aug 2, 2015

scott99 said:
Exactly what a somewhat intelligent Jet's fan has said all along in my office. Let them have whatever inflation level they want. Said the whole Deflategate thing is stupid.

Whhaat? "Somewhat intelligent" Jets fans exist. I guess there just might be a bigfoot then after all.

fair catch fryar · Aug 2, 2015

robertweathers said:
Lol. What a 1/2 ass, sham or a house of cards this 10b mess of a league really is.

The most "F'd" part about it......it all is because of Goodell. If this guy is still employed as the commissioner a year from now, I'll be surprised.

farn · Aug 2, 2015

It's astounding. But everyone knew the NFL never cared about this until January of this year. The astounding part is that the NFL can't even control their own employees from saying (truthful) things that hurt them.

RobertWeathers · Aug 2, 2015

fair catch fryar said:
The most "F'd" part about it......it all is because of Goodell. If this guy is still employed as the commissioner a year from now, I'll be surprised.

This doesn't happen under Tags.

I'd reccomend the Rolling Stone article on Goody from last year. Tags had some sharp words.

NashuaPats · Aug 2, 2015

scott99 said:
Great find ! The moronic NFL wasted millions to find out balls may leak air, yet they crucify the Pats and portray them as cheaters. I ask myself everyday, why do they do that ?

I'm with you on that. What makes the most sense is that it started with Kensil, a Pats hater, pushing it and then picked up by Goodell who was desperate for a PR victory after his horrible year. Yet, that still doesn't sit well with me.

I can't get past the fact that the balls fell in line with the IGL and the NFL lied about it creating this monster of a fabricated story defaming one of the sport's all time greats.

Goodell has said that Exponent's science fully supports tampering despite so many scientists coming forward to dispute it and none, to my knowledge, agreeing with Exponent's conclusions.

It just seems that Goodell is completely corrupt, has not one ounce of integrity, and zero wisdom. How could he be that despicable?

patsfan13 · Aug 2, 2015

NashuaPats said:
I'm with you on that. What makes the most sense is that it started with a Kensil, a Pats hater, pushing it and then picked up by Goodell who was desperate for a PR victory after his horrible year. Yet, that still doesn't sit well with me.

I can't get past the fact that the balls fell in line with the IGL and the NFL lied about it creating this monster of a fabricated story defaming one of the sport's all time greats.

Goodell has said that Exponent's science fully supports tampering despite so many scientists coming forward to dispute it and none, to my knowledge, agreeing with Exponent's conclusions.

It just seems that Goodell is completely corrupt, has not one ounce of integrity, and zero wisdom. How could he be that despicable?

Kensil set the sting, Gardi and Padh were in on it with Blandino, when the IGL info started coming out, the suits realized that if an attempt to smear a SB team was exposed that Goodell might be toast. The 'investigation' is a cover up of the sting, to protect Goodell. He more likely than not did know until he was told the week after the game about the sting and the science problem that Head Smart labs pointed out. Everything else is throwing others under the bus to protect the boss.

This is a sports version of Watergate for those old enough to remember, with Goodell playing Nixon and. Kensil as the head of the 'Plumbers'.

Hoodie · Aug 2, 2015

patsfan13 said:
This is a sports version of Watergate for those old enough to remember, with Goodell playing Nixon and. Kensil as the head of the 'Plumbers'.

Let's hope the end result is the same.

Dr Pain · Aug 2, 2015

patsfan13 said:
Kensil set the sting, Gardi and Padh were in on it with Blandino, when the IGL info started coming out, the suits realized that if an attempt to smear a SB team was exposed that Goodell might be toast. The 'investigation' is a cover up of the sting, to protect Goodell. He more likely than not did know until he was told the week after the game about the sting and the science problem that Head Smart labs pointed out. Everything else is throwing others under the bus to protect the boss.

This is a sports version of Watergate for those old enough to remember, with Goodell playing Nixon and. Kensil as the head of the 'Plumbers'.

My dream is that Mort and ESPN are staying mum on this because they are working a big story on this and when you shoot at a king you must kill him. I know it is a fantasy but I can have them though.

Bella*chick · Aug 2, 2015

BelichickFan said:
Not surprisingly the NFL missed the obvious solution to this. Let teams use whatever ball inflation they want. Rodgers likes hard. Great. Others like soft. Great. The refs don't need to be checking, inflating, deflating, all QB would be within a reasonable range. You can't throw a truly deflated ball at an NFL level.

Absolutely COMMON SENSE solution here! Any competitive advantage is negated by the other team using what is most comfortable for them. It's just so obvious and easily the BEST solution.

Froob · Aug 2, 2015

I wonder if Goodell is just trying to find out just how far he can push it like that episode of Always's Sunny when Dennis finds that dude's wallet and just starts living his life.

The Boston Patriot · Aug 2, 2015

robertweathers said:
This doesn't happen under Tags.

I'd reccomend the Rolling Stone article on Goody from last year. Tags had some sharp words.

Got a link?

tuckeverlasting · Aug 2, 2015

fair catch fryar said:
The most "F'd" part about it......it all is because of Goodell. If this guy is still employed as the commissioner a year from now, I'll be surprised.

and i'll be disappointed.

RayClay · Aug 2, 2015

BelichickFan said:
Not surprisingly the NFL missed the obvious solution to this. Let teams use whatever ball inflation they want. Rodgers likes hard. Great. Others like soft. Great. The refs don't need to be checking, inflating, deflating, all QB would be within a reasonable range. You can't throw a truly deflated ball at an NFL level.

I posted something similar. It is asinine, in a league that has always favored more offense with changed rule emphasis, who's stars were Brady and Manning, the best QBs who pushed for the right to work the finish of the balls, to think that the NFL wants QBs to use balls that are in any way uncomfortable for them. It would make no sense.

The ball doesn't carry the running back into the end zone, nor does it magically turn incompletions into completions.

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