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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.It will if Kraft has damaging evidence that he can go public with.It would and he should. But outside of few people like Reiss and Curran, the media (even here, let alone nationally) will portray him as a whiner trying to deflect people away from misdeeds.
That's the thing you seem to keep missing. Outside of NE fans, no one cares if NE looks bad -- in fact, they like it! So Kraft can go ballistic all he wants, but it won't budge the needle on the narrative.
I've had this day circled for awhile, but nothing yet.Today would be the perfect day to release the Wells Report. Good Friday. Final Four and Easter/Passover this weekend.
That doesn't really make any sense, given their propensity to inact rule after rule favoring the offense.They were talking about deflategate on the radio today because of an interview with Greg Doyle and this dawned on me -
that the NFL has a rule in place to inflate a football to the level of it being not optimal for the offense.
That someone said that if the ball was to be less than 12 PSI then the offense would be at a great advantage. So we will pass a rule that will make all quarterbacks uneasy with handling the football to keep the integrity of the game intact so that the defense has a chance.
We can't give the offense that much of an advantage. We must overinflated the football for integrity.
Today would be the perfect day to release the Wells Report. Good Friday. Final Four and Easter/Passover this weekend.
I've been thinking the same thing, but there's two things that make me now say no - a) Schefter said the jetsetting Brady still hasn't been in for an interview (though Reiss seemed to contradict that) and b) if Wells report wasn't even in the league's hand by last week, I have a hard time seeing Goodell having come to a decision already. You know he has a dartboard in his office with a list of all possible decisions on it, and he wants to get enough throws on it to ensure he's making the right move.
NFL said:Our office has been conducting an investigation as to whether the footballs used in last Sunday’s AFC Championship Game complied with the specifications that are set forth in the playing rules. The investigation began based on information that suggested that the game balls used by the New England Patriots were not properly inflated to levels required by the playing rules, specifically Playing Rule 2, Section 1, which requires that the ball be inflated to between 12.5 and 13.5 pounds per square inch. Prior to the game, the game officials inspect the footballs to be used by each team and confirm that this standard is satisfied, which was done before last Sunday’s game.
I've had this day circled for awhile, but nothing yet.
I was amused by his protestations that he's now so terrribly, terribly BORED by the whole affair. This from the assclown who wanted the Pats banned from the NFL back in Feb. Translation: I've figured out that nothing was going on and I'm desperately trying to avoid looking like more of an idiot than I already do.
i wonder if Sharks of Vegas has any new info, they seemed to be pretty accurate when this was in its early stages
Don't see how you jumped to that conclusion, especially "Notice that the statement does not say the NFL is investigating if the balls were tampered with." That's the entire reason why there's an investigation. The refs inspect the balls before the game, if a ball is determined to be under pressure then they fixed it then there. Nowhere in that statement does it say the ball's pressure has to stay between 12.5 - 13.5 psi. They just have to get the okay from the refs. So since they got the okay from the refs then the only way the Patriots can get in trouble is if they tampered with the balls after the initial inspection. That's what Ted Well's is investigating.Here's the relevant piece of the NFL statement:
This statement says that prior to the game the balls were in spec. The statement also says they are investigating whether "the game balls used by the New England Patriots were not properly inflated to levels required by the playing rules, specifically Playing Rule 2, Section 1, which requires that the ball be inflated to between 12.5 and 13.5 pounds per square inch"
Putting those two things together that implies the NFL believes Rule 2, Section 1 applies throughout the entire game. If Rule 2, Section 1 does not apply throughout the game, then how is it even determinable if a ball is underpressured? What would you be testing against? Notice that the statement does not say the NFL is investigating if the balls were tampered with. It says they're investigating why the balls didn't comply with the specification. Which means there is a specification to comply with. Which means Rule 2, Section 1 applies throughout the game.
the concept of pressure's dependence upon temperature - and therefore the weather - was foreign to the principle figures involved in both leading up to the game, and the investigation that began immediately after it.
And, to be fair to the present-day morons, the people who drafted the rule in the first place.
He realizes it's a shut and dry case so he's milking all the cash he can get, at least that's my guess. Hell, he might be uncovering some ani-patriots conspiracy for all we knowThat's what Ted Well's is investigating.
WTF is he waiting for , a deathbed confession?
Boom. Fall guy.It was Kensil & Grigson who F'd up here.
and Goodell is lying through his teeth (de rigueur) stating he was unaware of Kensil's actions.