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Not sure why many are assuming that eleven balls being under inflated is indicative of guilt.
There are many possible explanations that have been apparently overlooked by some in this thread. For example, the physics based on temperature drop from inside the referee's locker room, to outside temperature that night. Also, whether or not the referees did not check the pressure prior to the game, as they are supposed to do.
The PSI is meaningless without a baseline comparison. Unless there is some visual or eyewitness testimony of nefarious dealings, then it shouldn't mean a thing. There are too many other plausible explanations.
The Patriots will be excoriated in the court of public opinion regardless. But the NFL really needs to have some sort of smoking gun, beyond the PSI measurement.
I'm convinced now that belichick saw his team put the ball on the ground 3 or 4 times vs bal & decided to have the game balls deflated to be softer to give his players a better grip on the ball....inexcusable
I have no problem with Bill pushing the rules and doing what it takes to win. Just don't think it was needed in this case. The risk wasn't worth the reward.
But again, we still don't know if it was intentional or not.
Anyways, stop calling for his job. He's not getting fired, and there is not a single person we could hire that would be a better HC than him.
Actually, this is a better look for him. It makes him totally oblivious to what was going on with the balls. Or the refs are just incompetent and didn't let him know they tested the balls. I mean if he knew, he would have said, yeah the officials mentioned the balls were under regulation so we used new ones.
Man, all I know is for a billion dollar organization, Pats PR really is not very aggressive. They need to take more of a Redskins PR approach for stuff like this
Well the claim is they were altered before they went to the ground.The fact that all of the balls weighed the same seems to make it unlikely they could have been altered once the game started. Regardless of all the eyes and cameras that could see the activity, I doubt the balls would weigh in the same if some one was lowering it by feel.
It is possible they were low when given to the refs, but then it is on the refs to catch it.
This reminds me of wrestlers going to extreme measures to get their weight within a certain class.
That report was contradicted by Jackson himself. He didn't notice it. He handed the ball to the equipment manager. He noticed it.
Nah Darius. You still got your ass kicked.
Someone from the Pats needs to get a statement out refuting this.