revisiting (yawn) deflategate details--why did Wells not trust refs judgment of which gauge was used

[Palm Beach Pats Fan]

They were thinking of the CHILDREN

You know, 'cause of INTEGRITY

 

[AQPE]

"These are the conclusions on which our facts are based."

- Exponent Inc. 2015

 

[Tony2046]

The gauge readings or which gauge was used was just a red herring to cover their "I never knew about the IGL and started a witch hunt" asses. OR to cover their "We'll use PSI to bring down the Pats and no one will care" asses.

They claim the footballs should have measured approximately 11.37 without knowing exactly any of the conditions. Room temps, which gauge, rain temp, etc..... all were estimated.



This is the average of what they measured at halftime. (Notice one gauge is within their estimated PSI range and the other is about 0.26 psi under.)



The football intercepted and measured by the Colts on the sidelines measured:




It's amazing that they were able to turn 0.26 psi (their number), a bathroom trip and a text message into a HOF career wrecking report.

Interesting that the intercepted ball was measured three times and all were within range.

 

[The Brandon Five]

The gauge readings or which gauge was used was just a red herring to cover their "I never knew about the IGL and started a witch hunt" asses. OR to cover their "We'll use PSI to bring down the Pats and no one will care" asses.

They claim the footballs should have measured approximately 11.37 without knowing exactly any of the conditions. Room temps, which gauge, rain temp, etc..... all were estimated.



This is the average of what they measured at halftime. (Notice one gauge is within their estimated PSI range and the other is about 0.26 psi under.)



The football intercepted and measured by the Colts on the sidelines measured:




It's amazing that they were able to turn 0.26 psi (their number), a bathroom trip and a text message into a HOF career wrecking report.

Interesting that the intercepted ball was measured three times and all were within range.

That last reading is lulz-worthy. So the last reading (after releasing some air to make the first two measurements) is the highest and above the expect range? Obviously the Colts illegally inflated that ball between the second and third reading!

 

[Tony2046]

That's pretty much it. Wells was given the direction: "We know the Patriots are guilty, find some evidence to back us up" rather than "Investigate everything that happened that day and report back."

The one item from Walt Coleman's account of that day that Wells didn't accept was which gauge he used. It's been shown here before, but the logo gauge and non-logo gauge have some significant differences, enough that it would stand out which one you used to check 48 footballs. If Well's felt Coleman's memory was shaky about which gauge he used, how could Wells accept Coleman's version of everything else that happened that day as being reliable?

The report was tailored to show that the non logo gauge was used (since that was the one that made the balls look more deflated and thus the Patriots more guilty) fits into the larger pattern of any activity that made the Patriots sound suspicious was highlighted, but any explanation that team personnel offered about these activities was rejected.

On the topic of the gauges, two facts to ponder:

- All of the gauges that the Colts, Patriots, and officials used during last year's AFCCG have disappeared. The teams no longer have them and Wells, Exponent and the NFL claim they don't know where they are. It's awfully convenient that the equipment that was used is no longer available for any sort subsequent testing or even just to do a side by side comparison.

- When Exponent did their testing, they said they used 40 gauges to run their experiments. Here's the catch: they were 40 models of the same gauge. How could they determine if it was possible to get different readings off of different gauges if all of them were the same? It would be like trying to compare the acceleration of a comparable model Ford with a Honda and running the tests using 10 of the same model Ford.

To add to your gauge statement. They were New Gauges and measured various readings ranging from 12.6 - 13.2 in a controlled 13.0 psi test environment.

 

[aluminum seats]

If it weren't for that stupid ass McNally tweet would there be a single piece of "evidence" that even insinuates that there was any wrong doing?

That's why I wish the fat moron would speak up already

 

[JarOfMayo51]

If Don Yee hadn't instructed Brady to get rid of his cell phone they would have absolutely nothing but a single text from McNally

People use the destroyed cell phone as evidence of his guilt. . Which is pretty funny, seeings how that came out way after the fact when the nfl realized the that we live in a world governed by the laws of physics.. so the narrative was changed to Brady being devilish and destroying evidence.. when in fact he didn't destroy any evidence, they still had all the texts they needed but they wanted to sway public opinion and they succeeded


It's amazing how literally nothing can be turned into a big "scandal" and people eat it right up for the most part because most of the population isn't too bright, or are incredibly ignorant as they live their lives that they will just believe what they are told