Patriots make major update to Wells Report In Context site

[Rob0729]

They just posted a long article about the myths of Deflategate. The bottom is signed by their law firm.

Probably won't mean anything, but could this be a first shot of something more?

The Wells Report in Context

 

[varjao]

nope, the only people who access that site are us.

 

[Huckleberry1]

I'm encouraged by any efforts to fight back.

 

[AtomicDawg]

The next time the Pats do anything substantial to fight and actually garner national attention will be the first time. Nothing we haven't seen before.

 

[RobertWeathers]

I'm encouraged by any efforts to fight back.

Too bad its not really fighting back.

 

[Kontradiction]

This isn't the "first shot" of anything. As varjao just pointed out, the only people who read and care about that website are PatsFans and a couple of local beat reporters. Otherwise, changes to that website fall upon deaf ears.

 

[Gator Mike]

Too little, too late.

If the Patriots were really interested in fighting at least in the Court of Public Opinion, they need to do more than post an article on a web site that only Patriots fans read.

 

[PatsWickedPissah]

All righty then!
GAME OVAH NFL!!!!

 

[Froob]

The top secret overthrow Goodell plan is underway, just you wait anyday now...

 

[Rob0729]

Thinking about it, it could be a pre-emptive strike for Brady if he loses in court. Basically saying if the league doesn't back off Brady even if they win (since this is more about retaining power and not Brady at this point), that they will seek legal remedy.

 

[FCB02062]

Krafty lost all shot at getting those picks back when he pulled a France circa 1940 when he "gave up" for the "good" of the 32...

Thankfully it looks like Krafty Bob has declined to have a Draft Party down at Jonathan City this year...

 

[aluminum seats]

Too little, too late.

If the Patriots were really interested in fighting at least in the Court of Public Opinion, they need to do more than post an article on a web site that only Patriots fans read.

To be honest, posting **** on that website sort of pisses me off more than if they didn't do anything.

 

[Huckleberry1]

Too bad its not really fighting back.

We disagree, imo going public with information debunking deflategate is something that seriously pisses off the league office and is definitely fighting back.

 

[Gronkowski123]

kraft's a gutless worm.

**** him

 

[RobertWeathers]

We disagree, imo going public with information debunking deflategate is something that seriously pisses off the league office and is definitely fighting back.

Thats not fighting.

What Clark Hunt is doing is fighting.

 

[ReverendMaynard]

This just pisses me off more. To see all the ways we were ****ed over, all in one concise document, many of which were known long before the punishments were announced and still have to live with the fact that Kraft did not even attempt an appeal... It's absolutely disgusting.

 

[RobertWeathers]

Thinking about it, it could be a pre-emptive strike for Brady if he loses in court. Basically saying if the league doesn't back off Brady even if they win (since this is more about retaining power and not Brady at this point), that they will seek legal remedy.

Such as?

Bob is not suing the NFL.

 

[Rob0729]

Such as?

Bob is not suing the NFL.

It could be an empty threat, but he might be doing everything he thinks he can to save Brady. I never said he would follow through with the threat, but it might be the message he is sending.

 

[wolverinejoe80]

can they please update this typo?

Roderick MacKinnon is a professer at The Rockefeller University. In 2003 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry. His other awards include the 2003 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize, the 2001 Gairdner Foundation International Award, the 2001 Perl-UNC Neuroscience Prize, the 2000 Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Science and the 1999 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award.

 

[Ring 6]

There is a lot of interesting stuff in here that I had not heard before.
this one is incredible

There was so much imprecision about the halftime events that no one seemed to notice there was an extra, unexplained Patriots’ football on Mr. Farley’s list. Rule 2 mandated that, prior to the game, Referee Anderson was to ensure that there were 12 footballs placed in the Patriots “primary bag” for use during the game. Of those 12 footballs, one was taken out of play and set aside as a souvenir in the first half after James Develin caught a touchdown pass. A second football — the one intercepted by the Colts — had been set aside and was not one of the 11 Patriots’ footballs measured at halftime. That left 10 Patriots footballs to be measured at halftime. However, Mr. Farley wrote down that 11 Patriots footballs were measured. Buried in a footnote of the Wells Report (p. 68) is the effort to explain this extra football. Utilizing the same “certainly possible” approach to witness interviewing, the Wells Report attributes to Mr. Anderson that it was “certainly possible” there were actually 13 footballs initially put in the primary bag, not the 12 he was responsible to ensure were there. The possibility of an extra football being put in the primary bag raises even further issues about the precision of the pre-game gauging, as well as about what Mr. Anderson actually said, which is in the unreleased interview notes. In all events, what is “certainly possible” is not “more likely than not,” which is the required standard of proof for the League to find a rule violation.