Posted on 01/22/2015 9:56:26 AM PST by TangledUpInBlue
Belichick addressed the controversy for the first time Thursday morning and made a number of strong and precise comments that, if he isn't telling the truth, can be fairly easily contradicted or even proven completely false. If that were to happen, his reputation would be finished.
Instead he claimed ignorance, threw the controversy onto quarterback Tom Brady who always should have been at the center of this and willingly and purposefully put himself in a box.
Belichick repeatedly mentioned he believes current and former players or staff members or anyone else will confirm what he said. He all but asked NFL investigators and the media to go ask them.
This suggests what Belichick said was honest. He's a smart man extremely smart and even his greatest critics will concede that. Only a fool would say what he said if his comments were so easily disproved. This strategy would run against every bit of lawyerly advice.
So he didn't come out and just say, "No explanation," for how the Patriots' footballs wound up underinflated in the first half of their rout of the Colts.
He said he never heard a word of this until Monday morning not from officials, not from staffers, not from the media.
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Yemen falls to ISIS, and our country is fixated on Tom Brady’s balls.
Brady seemed evasive when first asked if he could tell the difference between the first half balls and the second half ones.
Also: “I get the snap, I drop back, I throw the ball,” Brady said. “I grip it and I try to throw the ball. That’s the extent of me touching the football.” Trying to imply that he really doesn’t handle it much at all so he wouldn’t know about any inflation issues. It doesn’t smell right.
They should make it like the Stick Check in Hockey.
We could easily have real time telemetry data.
Just like the Indycar and Formula 1 guys do with tire pressures.
We’ll be watching velocity, spin rpm, etc on our television sets in just a few years I predict.
15% of the weight I believe.
DOH!
So called deflated balls were used in the first half. Hard rock balls were used in the second half when Patriots beat the Colts like a drum. This entire “non-story” is something cooked up by the Colts because they are tired of getting their bell rung by the Patriots.
Michael Sam said the balls he inspected were fine.
Funny!
To me the way rule 2 is written it leaves the door open to manipulation of game time pressure based upon temperature manipulation of some sort. I didn’t run any ideal gas law calcs to check the professors numbers. However I think it is a neat idea and not outside the rule as written to do this if you want a softer ball to play with. I admire innovation of this type.
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