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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.And their source says good chance decision is given tomorrow. But I'll believe it when I see itmike greenberg ( mike and mike ) saying the suspension will stand at 4..
And their source says good chance decision is given tomorrow. But I'll believe it when I see it
I find this very interesting and wouldn't be happening without Kraft's approval.
I won't listen to a word that A-hole says...I can't stand steven a smith and his anti patriots rants!i dont know how credible stephen a smith is, but he's saying on first take that he's also hearing the suspension will stand. according to him, brady destroyed his phone/texts..
the story gets even stranger!!
nfl is confident they'll win in court..
Belichick already did that within one week of Framegate commencing.
And he delivered his findings at the press conference of January 24th.
http://blog.masslive.com/patriots/2015/01/post_19.html
"......I’ve talked to and gathered a lot of information from members of our staff, I have talked to other people familiar with this subject in other organizations and we have performed an internal study of the process and I think there are certainly other things that I can do and there’s maybe other research that can be done, but I say at this time, I definitely have enough information to share with you.....
......We simulated a game day situation in terms of the preparation of the football and where the footballs were at various points in time during the day, or night, as the case was Sunday. I would say that our preparation process for the footballs is what we do. I can’t speak for anybody else. It’s what we do. That process, we have found raises the PSI [pounds per square inch] approximately one pound. That process of creating a tackiness, a texture – the right feel, whatever that feel is, it’s just a sensation for the quarterback, what’s the right feel. That process elevates the PSI approximately one pound based on what our study showed, which was multiple footballs, multiple examples in the process, as we would do for a game. It’s not one football.
When the footballs are delivered to the officials locker room, the officials were asked to inflate them to 12.5 PSI. What exactly they did, I don’t know. But for the purposes of our study, that’s what we did. We set them at 12.5. That’s at the discretion of the official, though. Regardless of what we ask for, it’s the official’s discretion to put them where he wants. Again, that’s done in a controlled climate. The footballs are prepared in our locker room, they’re delivered to the officials locker room, which is a controlled environment. Whatever we have here is what we have there. When the footballs go out on to the field into game conditions, whatever those conditions are, whether it’s hot and humid, whether it’s cold and damp, whether it’s cold and dry, whether it’s whatever it is, that’s where the footballs are played with, and that’s where the measurements would be different than what they are, possibly different, than what they are in a controlled environment. That’s what we found.
We found that once the footballs were on the field over an extended period of time, in other words, they were adjusted to the climatic conditions and also the fact that the footballs reached an equilibrium without the rubbing process, that after that had run its course and the footballs had reached an equilibrium, that they were down approximately one-and-a-half pounds per square inch. When we brought the footballs back in after that process and re-tested them in a controlled environment as we have here, then those measurements rose approximately one half pound per square inch. So the net of one and a half, back to a half, is approximately one pound per square inch, to one and a half......"
I heard on the radio (Dale and Holley) that a member of the team would be able to observe the measurements - and when I say a member of the team I mean an actual player. D&H speculated that would fall to Garoppolo.
Has anyone heard anything remotely along these lines? I can't believe something that significant was missed by the MSM so I probably misheard it all.
Engineer here.
You have just described a small setof the myriad reasons this is an uncontrolled experiment rife with opportunity for fraud. I expect nothing but BAD for the Patriots to come from any such "experiment".
Physics does not need NYFL yahoos to affirm the Ideal Gas Law.
I remember as February turned to March turned to April we got more and more optimistic and positive articles coming from everywhere about how the Patriots are looking good, how the league is going to be looking bad, etc etc. And then the bomb dropped.
So yeah
I just started reading it and detected a pretty big error in the 2nd paragraph:
There will be more footballs used – 12 primary, 12 backup. Each will be numbered. All footballs will be set to 13 pounds per square inch before the game and then measured again afterward. At select games, the primary balls will be measured and removed at halftime and the second half will be played with the backups.
The writer made a mistake. It is not true that all footballs are being set to 13. Only those submitted outside the legal range get set to 13. It is very frustrating to combat ignorance when there is so much of it out there!
EDIT: I take back my unkind words. OK he botched the above, but he nailed the part about "the idea that New England grossly cheated comes from a wholly inaccurate and highly prejudicial ESPN report from January that the league never bothered to refute."
Please forgive!