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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.How about a link at least?Hello and please don't ask me to post it here because I don't know how But great article on a retired QB saying how all qbs including himself doing what Tom Brady is getting picked on. Please read it and kindly someone post it here.Thanks
http://www.breitbart.com/sports/201...hat-tom-brady-did-common-officials-dont-care/
Why be anonymous? Stand up and shout it.
Why be anonymous? Stand up and shout it.
Troy Aikman played exactly 12 years12 year vet? It might be Jeff Garcia. Any other possibilities?
12 year vet? It might be Jeff Garcia. Any other possibilities?
The evidence clearly suggests that in our case nobody did anything. Thus the "everybody does it" angle isn't all that helpful, IMO. And it doesn't talk about changing the pressure after it goes to the ref.
Very interesting read, though... thanks! It shows that many refs are pretty sloppy and they do just give them a squeeze test sometimes, rather than bothering to gauge them.
I dont think anything happened in the AFCCG. Which means all this is totally moot.
But, sure, I'm open to the idea that the deflator may have done it even in front of the refs, in a prior game. It may even have been done with referee approval.
I think it has to be a more recently retired player who played under the current rules where QBs are able to prepare the footballs the way they want themTroy Aikman played exactly 12 years
For guys who played 12 years in the NFL
Kurt Warner ( yeah not likely), Scott Mitchell, Joe Montana, Bernie Kosar (didn't BB bench him- no love lost) and Joe Theismann.. My money would be on Joe, as he usually says positive things re TB and BB......
I think it has to be a more recently retired player who played under the current rules where QBs are able to prepare the footballs the way they want them
I think it has to be a more recently retired player who played under the current rules where QBs are able to prepare the footballs the way they want them
The evidence clearly suggests that in our case nobody did anything. Thus the "everybody does it" angle isn't all that helpful, IMO. And it doesn't talk about changing the pressure after it goes to the ref.
Very interesting read, though... thanks! It shows that many refs are pretty sloppy and they do just give them a squeeze test sometimes, rather than bothering to gauge them.
12 year vet? It might be Jeff Garcia. Any other possibilities?
I think what he is referring to is all the prep work that goes into getting the balls ready and how exactly TB can be. BTW - it would not surprise me that if a QB likes the balls low on the psi that they send them in at 12 knowing that for the most part the refs don't really check.
I think the whole "Anderson was so careful during the pre-game measuring" is a crock. And that whole "in 19 years nobody has ever left the officials room with the ball unless I accompany them" BS.
From the Wells Report:
Paul Galanis, who was stationed just outside the entrance to the Patriots locker room, across the corridor from the top of the center tunnel, said that it was routine for McNally to walk to the field with the game balls unaccompanied. He estimated that McNally goes to the field approximately 10% of the time with game officials and approximately 25-30% of the time with Richard Farley, and the other times he is walking by himself.
This jives exactly with what McNally said but all the NFL employees are just covering their backsides.
Not necessarily. With the prior system, QBs might have also been very adamant about PSI even if they didn't prep the balls themselves.
In many ways, PSI is totally different from the 2006 changes. In those rules, it was clear they were talking about scuffing the ball.
But the PSI concern predates 2006.
“I know personally because I’ve had it happen to me,” he continued. “I would tell my ball boy, who I paid $200 a week, to scrub the footballs and prepare them to present to NFL officials at 12.5 PSI. Then all of a sudden during the game when one of my footballs was introduced into [the] game by officials, and it did not feel right, I’d tell [the] official to ‘get rid of that ball.’ I would explain to [the] official, ‘What the hell did you do to that ball? It’s not what I introduced to you guys, you over inflated it.'”