Globe Troll gets quote from unnamed owner that there is more evidence of cheating not released

Possibility: "this" is deflating footballs, and the problem is lack of awareness of the ideal gas law.

I, for one, completely believe it. Once you understand this new information, the nurturing influence of Goodell and his minions becomes abundantly clear.

Stop being so ungrateful, Pats fans! You are embarrassing yourselves! Without the NFL's protective lies, leaks, goal post moving and bizarre legal arguments we would be dealing with charges much more serious than 0.35 pounds of air pressure.

Rob0729 said:

I am sure there are plenty of things the Wells Report hides. He are some examples:

• Wells badgering Walt Anderson who claims that he is sure he used the logoed gauge that he was wrong and he could have used the unlogoed one.
• The true facts of the set up by the League
• Any investigation of the leaks by the League
• The full text threads of the incriminating texts so we can see the two or three texts he pulled out in context
• Any interview transcript.
• Any single quote from interviews from Brady, McNally, or Jastremski
• What Jeffrey Pash edited out when he was "wordsmithing" the Wells Report
• The different revisions of the Exponent report since the one included in the Wells Report was dated the day the report was released to the public

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Excellent post. How Exponent was selected rather than other (more reputable) scientific consultants?

This "rumor" again strikes to the very heart of the issue that is engulfing the NEP franchise.
Team owners & execs and league front office execs firmly "believe" that BB has been cheating since 2001. It is an unquestioned article of faith among the True Believers. Therefore in their limited minds any bad rumor is fact that they accept as "evidence". This perverse thinking has metastasized and infected many teams and the entire league front office. Kraft tried appeasement but True Believers cannot be appeased.

Given this, I see the NYJFL now as beyond salvaging. Looks like I will really have to pull the ripcord on pro football after BB & Tom leave. Hope I don't need to eject sooner if egregious acts continue unabated this season or next knocking the Pats out of the payoffs.

An unnamed owner says the NFL has been holding unknown information for an undetermined amount of time

Wow, nice job Trollin'. You broke that big news story wide open

I'm calling ********.

The NFL and NFLPA have been meeting behind closed doors now. If there were more evidence, they would have brought it up to pressure a settlement. I don't believe there's more that the NFL held back and although I wouldn't bet on the outcome of the case, I'd bet the house on that one.

There have been LOTS of cold weather games played in Foxboro over the past few decades.

Since the NFL and the owners remain completely clueless about the ideal gas law, they are convinced that there was cheating then, if ever a football was gauged.

I love how worked up everyone gets over Google Derp, Dolphins Honk, Mac n' Cheese MCI.

Maybe if he were finally off the news feed.

People need to just ignore Volin completely and stopping reading his stuff and stop tweeting him.

Mike the Brit said:

Excellent post. How Exponent was selected rather than other (more reputable) scientific consultants?

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Sorry if someone has previously considered this, but it just occurred to me. I can certainly see someone at Columbia letting the cat out of the bag just because it was such a big deal. But what if someone within the LO realized they had no control over what Columbia would provide and someone realized that Exponent would provide them exactly what they wanted. Needing an excuse to drop Columbia, someone in the LO then leaked that they reached out to Columbia. Given what we now know, it's certainly plausible and very neatly fits in with the provided reason why Wells broke with Columbia. Why exactly would the LO be concerned with media leaks from Columbia? If it truly was a concern, they could have gone back to Columbia and gotten assurances that future leaks wouldn't happen. Seems like a bit of an overreaction to drop them just because of the story in the media.

I would bet the information the owner talks about is simply other accusations made to the league by other teams, which is probly irrelevant to the case and information that cannot be proven

adam941 said:

Sorry if someone has previously considered this, but it just occurred to me. I can certainly see someone at Columbia letting the cat out of the bag just because it was such a big deal. But what if someone within the LO realized they had no control over what Columbia would provide and someone realized that Exponent would provide them exactly what they wanted. Needing an excuse to drop Columbia, someone in the LO then leaked that they reached out to Columbia. Given what we now know, it's certainly plausible and very neatly fits in with the provided reason why Wells broke with Columbia. Why exactly would the LO be concerned with media leaks from Columbia? If it truly was a concern, they could have gone back to Columbia and gotten assurances that future leaks wouldn't happen. Seems like a bit of an overreaction to drop them just because of the story in the media.

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My guess? Columbia looked at the data for 15 minutes and laughed in the League's faces. Something along the lines of "There's not enough money in the world that you could give us, to make us feed into your ******** narrative."

TommyD4207 said:

My guess? Columbia looked at the data for 15 minutes and laughed in the League's faces. Something along the lines of "There's not enough money in the world that you could give us, to make us feed into your ******** narrative."

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I can just see the whole LO scrambling after that.

TommyD4207 said:

My guess? Columbia looked at the data for 15 minutes and laughed in the League's faces. Something along the lines of "There's not enough money in the world that you could give us, to make us feed into your ******** narrative."

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Well, wouldn't that be worth going to discovery for!

Mike the Brit said:

Well, wouldn't that be worth going to discovery for!

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Please, that was 6 months ago. Those notes have "mysteriously disappeared clerical error by now."

Unless of course, for some reason Columbia made note of it. But why would they?

Rob0729 said:

I am guessing if it was Johnson, Volin had to promise to take him for ice cream after he made his quote.

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Or maybe he promised Woody they could eat popcorn and watch "Game of Thrones" together, ogling the parade of floppy wieners.

By not challenging the NFL in an appeal, Kraft has brought this onto the Patriots. He accepted a guilty plea no matter how he couched it during that Chamberlainesque press conference and in proclamations after that.

Also, what the NFL considers facts and what the rest of humanity considers facts diverge around reality. In the NFL's world, conjecture is considered hard fact.

h0c2000 said:

By not challenging the NFL in an appeal, Kraft has brought this onto the Patriots. He accepted a guilty plea no matter how he couched it during that Chamberlainesque press conference and in proclamations after that.

Also, what the NFL considers facts and what the rest of humanity considers facts diverge around reality. In the NFL's world, conjecture is considered hard fact.

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Bill Belichick: Bob, did you really just give up those draft picks for no reason?

Bob Kraft: Yes.

Bill Belichick: You're a schmuck.

Let me guess...ESPN is taking volins report and running with it all day and by tomorrow it'll lead the national nightly news...f*ck tennis ball head

FCB02062 said:

Let me guess...ESPN is taking volins report and running with it all day and by tomorrow it'll lead the national nightly news...f*ck tennis ball head

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And then Wednesday, when NOTHING HAPPENS, ESPN will be all "what are they holding onto it for?" and Lester Munson will say words about things that he's not qualified to talk about.