revisiting (yawn) deflategate details--why did Wells not trust refs judgment of which gauge was used

Tony2046 said:

The gauge readings or which gauge was used was just a red herring to cover their "I never knew about the IGL and started a witch hunt" asses. OR to cover their "We'll use PSI to bring down the Pats and no one will care" asses.

They claim the footballs should have measured approximately 11.37 without knowing exactly any of the conditions. Room temps, which gauge, rain temp, etc..... all were estimated.

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This is the average of what they measured at halftime. (Notice one gauge is within their estimated PSI range and the other is about 0.26 psi under.)

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The football intercepted and measured by the Colts on the sidelines measured:

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It's amazing that they were able to turn 0.26 psi (their number), a bathroom trip and a text message into a HOF career wrecking report.

Interesting that the intercepted ball was measured three times and all were within range.

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Koma said:

That's pretty much it. Wells was given the direction: "We know the Patriots are guilty, find some evidence to back us up" rather than "Investigate everything that happened that day and report back."

The one item from Walt Coleman's account of that day that Wells didn't accept was which gauge he used. It's been shown here before, but the logo gauge and non-logo gauge have some significant differences, enough that it would stand out which one you used to check 48 footballs. If Well's felt Coleman's memory was shaky about which gauge he used, how could Wells accept Coleman's version of everything else that happened that day as being reliable?

The report was tailored to show that the non logo gauge was used (since that was the one that made the balls look more deflated and thus the Patriots more guilty) fits into the larger pattern of any activity that made the Patriots sound suspicious was highlighted, but any explanation that team personnel offered about these activities was rejected.

On the topic of the gauges, two facts to ponder:

- All of the gauges that the Colts, Patriots, and officials used during last year's AFCCG have disappeared. The teams no longer have them and Wells, Exponent and the NFL claim they don't know where they are. It's awfully convenient that the equipment that was used is no longer available for any sort subsequent testing or even just to do a side by side comparison.

- When Exponent did their testing, they said they used 40 gauges to run their experiments. Here's the catch: they were 40 models of the same gauge. How could they determine if it was possible to get different readings off of different gauges if all of them were the same? It would be like trying to compare the acceleration of a comparable model Ford with a Honda and running the tests using 10 of the same model Ford.

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VectorPrime said:

If it weren't for that stupid ass McNally tweet would there be a single piece of "evidence" that even insinuates that there was any wrong doing?

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