Bob Griese: "Let the QB decide how much air to put in the football"

[oldrover]

Bob Griese: Let quarterbacks decide how much air to put in the ball

Nice that he said it. But why so late? My guess is that during the whole Deflategate fiasco, Shula deflated Bob's balls.

 

[deroc5050]

Tom Should have kept his balls a little more inflated because apparently he plays even better when they are.

 

[Ice_Ice_Brady]

Any story that doesn't explicitly acknowledge that the balls were never tampered with is inexcusable. The balls were never tampered with. The balls were never deflated outside of natural laws. All evidence shows that Brady never played better at home. His passer rating is identical in home/road splits, which is better than anyone else.

 

[Koma]

This has been said before, but if the PSI really, really made the huge difference the league and their media pawns tried to portray, why there never an effort sometime over the last 70 years or so to expand the acceptable PSI range?

Teams are always looking for franchise type QBs. If PSI was really critical, wouldn't some teams argue to relax the rules a little. It would be a win-win for the league. The guys who were great playing with a 12.5 - 13.5 PSI football would still be great. Maybe Akili Smith and Heath Shuler would have been great playing with a 14 PSI football. Maybe Brady Quinn and Matt Leinart would have gone to the Pro Bowl if they could have used an 11.5 PSI football.

The fact is, PSI never mattered to the NFL until January of 2015 and then it went right back to not mattering.

 

[sb1]

I say tonight would be a great night for the league to release the PSI measurements!

 

[ivanvamp]

The fact is, PSI never mattered to the NFL until January of 2015 and then it went right back to not mattering.

This a thousand times over. I know we've all been over all this already, but please consider:

- A month before the AFCCG, the Panthers were actually caught on television tampering with footballs during a cold weather game in Minnesota, warming up footballs with those big heaters to pump up the balls to Cam's liking. Caught ON TV. The NFL simply sent them a note saying, hey you can't do that.

- This year, the Steelers are caught by the Giants using under inflated footballs. The NFL simply dismisses the whole thing, saying the balls were handled properly (proper procedures were followed). Note, they never said anything about the PSI being under the legal limit.

In between those two events we have the Patriots. And with the Patriots came the biggest NFL scandal in league history - if you judge it by the penalty they suffered.

So to review:

- Before the 2015 AFCCG, PSI and tampering = NOTHING.
- The 2015 AFCCG involving the Patriots, PSI and tampering = BIGGEST SCANDAL IN LEAGUE HISTORY.
- After the 2015 AFCCG, PSI and tampering = NOTHING.

The only thing that is different is..... The New England Patriots. That alone is the difference between PSI and tampering being nothing or the biggest scandal in league history.

 

[TB_Helmet]

Measure PSI in a football, put it in a fridge for 15 minutes, measure it again.

Then, give us back our ****ing draft picks.

 

[RobertWeathers]

2.5 years later people are still talking about ball pressure.

The only people that consider this to be relevant are the ones who are blind NFL loyalists, too goddamn lazy to do any research, not paying attention or too f-ing stupid.

Bob Griese might have hit the superfecta here.

 

[PlanB]

I say tonight would be a great night for the league to release the PSI measurements!

can't release what you don't have

 

[NashuaPats]

I disagree with his statement that there should not be a minimum psi level. There needs to be a standard. Whether it's strictly 13.0 or a range of 12.5 - 13.5, either is fine. This is completely irrelevant to deflategate because as Ice Ice Brady said, the balls were never tampered with. It's a shame that so many are still so ignorant on this subject (not us here on Patsfans though).

 

[Joey007]

This isn't 2015 anymore. I don't think there's anything else to say about all of this that hasn't been said before.

Bob must get his news through telegrams, because he's a little behind here.

 

[ErniesPinkStripes]

2.5 years later people are still talking about ball pressure.

The only people that consider this to be relevant are the ones who are blind NFL loyalists, too goddamn lazy to do any research, not paying attention or too f-ing stupid.

Bob Griese might have hit the superfecta here.

Unfortunately this is not true. I've had conversations with many nfl fans (otherwise intelligent people, some even pats fans) who can't explain, but feel /think something happened - they're still hanging onto the 90 second bathroom trip.

My stance was that science says nothing unnatural occurred and that they could not tell me something did, they didn't have the proof. Obviously no retort but it's sad that otherwise objective, reasonable people will hold onto false information, "feelings" and circumstantial evidence in the face of science and logic.

 

[Ring 6]

Tom Should have kept his balls a little more inflated because apparently he plays even better when they are.

They have been the same the entire time. Less psi when it's cold more when it's hot.

 

[neuronet]

What psi can someone actually feel the difference? We should do some psychophysics with fans of all teams (not just pats fans obviously). Double blind test where the question is, which ball has higher psi (experiment 1), and is the psi of these balls different or the same (experiment 2)? Let's objectively determine this number, as a function of psi.

(I assume it is very hard to detect deltaPSI when the psi is high, versus low--that is, if you go from 7 to 7.5 most people could tell, but few could tell the difference between 13 and 13.5)