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Forget the science for a moment, since everybody else in the media and the league is, and the Wells report did about as much "research" as Jenny McCarthy did on vaccines.
If it's true McNally deflated the balls, how do we know he wasn't doing this to **** over Brady and the Patriots? He's threatened to mess with the balls numerous times to piss off Brady.
And the one thing the Wells report totally overlooks, which quite frankly looks pretty obvious, is where the **** was the advantage exactly?
Brady's 1st half with deflated balls:
11/21, 52%, 95 yards, 4.5 YPA, 1 TD, 1 INT, 60.6 RAT
Pats 17, Colts 7
Brady's 2nd half with properly inflated balls:
12/14, 86%, 131 yards, 9.4 YPA, 2 TDs, 0 INT, 145.2 RAT
Pats 28, Colts 0
There could be scheme changes or second half adjustments or the Patriots became more focused and more pissed after NFL officials were measuring the balls. Or maybe whatever McNally did just wasn't very helpful, and may have been the opposite.
North Americans have a problem with understanding the concept of balance. It's all about maximization and quite frankly, people often think to the extremes. Lots of fat is bad, therefore most people think any fat is bad, when the truth is there's something in the middle that works best. And just because a QB wants less air doesn't mean they want no air. If Brady has a choice between 12.5 and 13, he chooses 12.5. But that doesn't mean 10 is better than 12.5, and 3 is better than 10.
So for all we know, Brady wanted lower, and McNally might have said fine, **** it, I'll give you way lower then *******. You certainly can't argue that whatever he did was helpful.
If it's true McNally deflated the balls, how do we know he wasn't doing this to **** over Brady and the Patriots? He's threatened to mess with the balls numerous times to piss off Brady.
And the one thing the Wells report totally overlooks, which quite frankly looks pretty obvious, is where the **** was the advantage exactly?
Brady's 1st half with deflated balls:
11/21, 52%, 95 yards, 4.5 YPA, 1 TD, 1 INT, 60.6 RAT
Pats 17, Colts 7
Brady's 2nd half with properly inflated balls:
12/14, 86%, 131 yards, 9.4 YPA, 2 TDs, 0 INT, 145.2 RAT
Pats 28, Colts 0
There could be scheme changes or second half adjustments or the Patriots became more focused and more pissed after NFL officials were measuring the balls. Or maybe whatever McNally did just wasn't very helpful, and may have been the opposite.
North Americans have a problem with understanding the concept of balance. It's all about maximization and quite frankly, people often think to the extremes. Lots of fat is bad, therefore most people think any fat is bad, when the truth is there's something in the middle that works best. And just because a QB wants less air doesn't mean they want no air. If Brady has a choice between 12.5 and 13, he chooses 12.5. But that doesn't mean 10 is better than 12.5, and 3 is better than 10.
So for all we know, Brady wanted lower, and McNally might have said fine, **** it, I'll give you way lower then *******. You certainly can't argue that whatever he did was helpful.
