Dunno about any conspiracy theories but part of me feels like that was no accident. If Brady has a rep around the league for preferring footballs on the softer end of the range... then what's stopping someone from rigging a game against him? Just like the false Mort report was no accident... it feels like someone bet a lot of money on the Seahawks (and Jets?). That is something worthy of a congressional investigation if that is anywhere close to the truth.
And if Tom really did get the dorito dinks to always set the footballs to 12.5 PSI.... what's stopping the NFL from screwing with Pats games by deliberately making them 16 PSI again... knowing Tom probably won't be getting them "fixed" anymore?
I think the Pats need to be wary of that... and Bill order his team not to take the field as necessary until the refs fix the air pressure in the footballs. We all know how low this league will stoop and I put nothing past them.
Agreed.
Money is not about a conspiracy, nor is ego and power. I always asked these 2 questions:
1. Was Mike Kensil at the game on 10.16.14?
2. How did ref Bill Leavy allow the balls to be that far over the 13.5 limit, if the weather that day was in the low 60s and the balls returned to a slightly higher temp at, say 70 degrees, inside the stadium?
Lastly, why was Bill Leavy demoted in 2013, only to be PROMOTED after the 2014 season and why were both he and Kensil's offices moved on Park Ave?
Who promotes a recently demoted ref, for special consulting services if the ref was so poor at his job?
Could it be Bill Leavy knows that Kensil took some of those balls at the Jets request to try to cheat Brady and the Pats>?
You'd have to be ****faced to not see the gauge at around 16 PSI.
Lastly, how arrogant and sloppy is it that Wells put that in the report, apparently to show some kind of seed of intent AFETR 10.16.14 for Brady to order Jastremski to deflate balls for god knows what reason, but in the Wells Report itself from the game that day, ,Brady is quoted as speciyuing the PSI range of 12.5 - 13.5 because he was so annoyed?
Why would he ask to doublecheck the game manual and thre rule, if he wanted it below 12.5 for whatever the reason may be?
The whole discussion of PSI has never come up in the history of brady's career at any time and he had to doublecheck what it was because 4 balls were so egregiously over-inflated, giving the Jets an advantage.
It's just amazing to me.
Was Mike Kensil at the 10.16.14 Jets vs Pats game? Was he? The only way to find out, apparrently, is to drop a defamation suit and ask him on a federal stand.
The last obvious dead giveaway that nothing happened to the footballs vs the Colts is the idea McNally would have HAD to have been present to see if the refs added air to the balls at all, because it wouldn't make sense for McNally to tamper with the balls after Brady blessed them, mere hours earlier. So, if there is no security footage of McNally standing there looking over the refs shoulders as they check the PSIs, then why would he take it upon himself, in awe of Brady, to tamper with the QBs preferences? FOr ****s and giggles?
I mean, does Goodell really think intelligent people who aren't even Pats fans, are all going to believe this?
Thee are so many tells in the Wells Report, its not even funny. They erred in the fact they used the 10.14.16 game to show intent that brady is uptight about the PSI and then cherrypicked old texts, strung that together with the 10.16 game, which somehow meant between 10.16 and January, but only at home games, all of a sudden, Brady orchestrated this scheme?
Really? Brady has to have the ball at 11.5 or 11 to start a game to be a HOF QB? We're supposed to believe this? Not to mention, anyone who has ever thrown a football would rather have it harder, not softer. A slower rotating ball gets to its target slower. Duh.
It's just so preposterous.
If you wanted to soften the balls, just have Vince roll on the bag during the national anthem for chrissakes.
Also, why would a part time guy like that lie to BB, Kraft and Brady? He wouldn't.