Blake: Every team deflates footballs

[wolverinejoe80]

No way.

No effing way.

If Brady and Bellichick got up there and bald-faced lied, their legacy is severely damaged, adn the Patriots' fan base will not recover. This wasn't an immediate reaction thing, either. Their press conferences were thought-out.

There's no way they're lying, in my opinion. If I'm wrong, I'm done with the Pats, adn I suspect a lot of other people are, too.

And if they did lie, they cast a dark, dark shadow over the last 15 years.

oh, grow a pair. it's just a friggin deflated football. brady din't kill anybody. he didnt steal your wife or mine.

AND WE ALL LIE. people lie and cheat everyday. to me this is going 70mph on 65mph zone. absolutely not a big deal. i don't believe brady did it, but if he did it then i'll just laugh it off.

 

[50-yard-line]

oh, grow a pair. it's just a friggin deflated football. brady din't kill anybody. he didnt steal your wife or mine.

AND WE ALL LIE. people lie and cheat everyday. to me this is going 70mph on 65mph zone. absolutely not a big deal. i don't believe brady did it, but if he did it then i'll just laugh it off.

Grow a pair?

Really?

No, sorry, I take honor more seriously than that. I don't give a rat's ass about 1psi or whatever in a football. I do have much lesser opinions of people who can look you in the face and categorically lie.

 

[BradyManny]

Keep in mind, Blake's career ended in 2005, the year before the rules were changed to allow QBs to have balls broken in. Prior to that, they had to deflate balls just to get them down to the 12.5-13psi range, I would bet.

That said, it was still AGAINST THE RULES and violated the INTEGRITY OF THE GAME, I guess.

Good catch.

 

[BradyManny]

AND WE ALL LIE. people lie and cheat everyday. to me this is going 70mph on 65mph zone.

I agree that even if they were guilty of it, the charge is as trivial as going a few over the speed limit as you say.

However, if you get up in a hugely televised press conference (in our hypothetical world where you or I have jobs where we speak to the whole world when charged with speeding, of course) and say you didn't speed, and first your manager, and then even the CEO of your company get up and say you told them you didn't speed, and that they have your back - then you better f**king not have sped. That would be a problem.

 

[hambone1818]

Blake's last year was 2005 when the NFL supplied the balls and I have no idea what the procedure was in terms of hand-off to the teams. It wasn't until 2006 when the rule changed to allow teams to use their own balls and have the officials inspect them.

So you really can't take Blakes words and apply them to the current issue unless you choose to ignore the fact that the method of ball supply was completely changed.

And I can't possibly imagine the press ignoring facts.

This needs to be highlighted here and repeated...it's a completely different process now. When the NFL provided shiny new balls to teams I can completely understand doctoring them to 'break them in' and I'm sure they were hard as hell, pump a few psi out and they're a lot more comfortable. It's why Brad Johnson paying a kid to scuff up the footballs is interesting in terms of the 'cheating' and 'competitive advantage' angles but does not speak to what happens in the NFL today.

To be clear: this info does not exonerate the Pats, no more than it points to Brady/BB lying in their pressers.

As an aside, I saw a newspaper clipping from the 80's, Phil Jackson talking about his teams deflating basketballs back in the day because he played for a relatively short team, they wanted to lessen the bounce to minimize the damage done by taller teams. I think this Blake revelation is no more relevant to present-day NFL than the Jackson report, other than the fact that every team in every sport will look for a competitive advantage.

 

[Joker]

why...does the speeding fine increase? The judge can throw the book at them, increasing the fine by a 1000% ?

I will dedicate my LIFE to destroying Roger Goodell if ANYTHING happens to ANY Patriot....coach, player, owner, ball boy, ticket taker...you name it. I will bombard all media with this cretin's lies until SOMEONE takes notice...and that includes every federal investigatory arm of the government that is applicable. He is a STUPID person and I guarantee he has NOT led a pristine, saintly life. I will find the cracks and then wage neverending war until he's destroyed. Not taken down a peg, not admonished or sanctioned...DESTROYED.

Arrogant little rich boy punk has stepped in it and the stink is going to STICK to him the rest of his rotten life.