What is missing in the 'DeflateGate' NFL analysis? Simple. How the Colts, once succumbing to a 14-0 deficit, had to THEN shift from running the ball 40% of the time to running it only less than 17% the rest of the first half upon falling behind by those scores. It was, after all, "Deflady Brady's" deep pass down the left side of the field to S. Vereen (30 yards) to the Indy 17-yard line that set up the second Patriot score. One wonders what might have happened on that pass in the driving rain had the "underinflation" not been at play...or even if the Patriots would have risked tossing a deep ball if the Patriot offense was "in the know" about DeflateGate...So..."Deflady Brady" doesn't now acknowledge he "felt" anything different about those first-half footballs? What? And pitchers in the Major Leagues can't tell the difference 'tween T-ball rubber balls and Major League baseballs, either?
Yeah funny how the Colts player who had an interception knew that the ball didn’t feel right.
Sour grapes.
You've got the gangster Seahawks, who lead the NFL in on-the-field cheating (if my memory serves me right, they led BOTH 2013 and 2014 in penalties)...
...and then you have the Patriots, who lead the NFL in off-the-field cheating.
Yup. Cheaters do indeed prosper!
Belichick tried to blame it on a bladder infection.
weak.
very weak.
I think the Pats would have mopped up the place with the Colts regardless.
Of course, that doesn’t excuse any cheating that may have gone on.
Who knows, maybe Deflategate is the only way to get Joe Sixpack thinking about ethics and rules on a national level.
I think part of the Ballghazi feeding frenzy is the result of the media sitting on their collective hands as Obama has played fast and loose with the rules again and again. The Patriots are a safe target for those scumbags to unleash whatever dormant journalistic urges they have left after six long years of shilling for the Big Cheater.
If we could only translate the outrage over deflated balls to the frauds in DC, we’d be getting somewhere.
At least you’re not hating on the Mormons.
Keep up the good work, one day at a time.
You are so right. Brady can probably tell how many ounces low the balls are. To stand up there and say he couldn’t tell the difference proves to me he is a bald faced liar. He knew it and so did a lot of other people.
By the way, I didn’t care who won. I don’t even like professional thug football.
Before every down a referee held the ball and placed it on the field. How come none of them noticed the deflation?
The final score was 45-7.
Patriots would have won even if they’d have been forced to play using basketballs inflated to 35 psi.
That the Patriots are known cheating bastards is irrelevant here.
People say it’s a small issue. If it’s no big deal then why did they do it?
Dallas stomped the Colts. They had no business being in that game vs NE. balls or no balls, they were overmatched.
Interesting analysis.
Brady is lying....and not very convincingly.
Eric Kester, who was a ball boy for the Chicago Bears in 2003, says he can’t speculate about the controversy dubbed “Deflate-Gate,” but he remembers how the preparation worked — starting with the delivery of factory-fresh balls a few days before a game.
“We would then work with the quarterbacks to customize the balls to their liking. This involved scrubbing them with stiff horsehair brushes to rub off the leather’s slippery silicone sheen, and occasionally inflating or deflating the balls a very small amount, which I believe is legal to a degree. Quarterbacks are very particular about the way a ball feels in their hand, and we worked meticulously to match their particular preferences,” Kester said.
Two hours before kickoff, he would bring the balls to the referees’ locker room for inspection.
“I recall them having a pressure gauge in the locker room, but most often they just squeezed the balls, turned them over in their hands a few times each, and inspected the laces. I don’t recall them ever rejecting one of our balls,” he said.
“My thought process was, ‘Let’s get the balls exactly the way our quarterback wants them, and if the refs reject one or two before the game, no big deal. But there’s no harm giving them our ideal balls and hoping they make it through inspection.’”
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/super-bowl-xlix/deflate-gate-nfl-ball-boys-perspective-preparing-footballs-n290801
So, if they hadn’t have cheated they only would have won 30-7?
That’s what confounds me about this whole thing.
I’m rooting against both of the teams. Let’s have another two teams for the SB this year. As someone said, Seahawks cheat during the game; Pats before. Cheats all. NFL is corrupt. Referees corrupt. Obama corrupt etc etc.
The Colts lost the game based on the control of the line of scrimmage. In the last four games the Colts played the Pats they had could not EVER stop the run. You can not throw it to TY Hilton on every down. The only thing that the Colts did well was contain Gronkowski for most of the game. The Colts should have never beat Denver. They are a one dimensional football team. Baltimore would have crushed the Colts if they had played.