Posted on 02/19/2015 4:54:08 AM PST by Colofornian
The unapproved kicking ball that sources told "Outside the Lines" that a Gillette Stadium officials' locker room attendant tried to introduce into the AFC Championship Game was handed to the man by an NFL employee, a source told ESPN's Adam Schefter on Wednesday.
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I still don’t get it. How does this article make it so they are owed an apology for cheating?
Of course they are all Jets, Giants, Yankees, Knicks and Rangers fans. Most of the main stream media live in the NYC area and they are biased towards the hometown team.
It is only natural. It is no different than us hating the Yankees. We don’t hate Jeter(at least I don’t). We respect him. However, we do all hate ARod. However, even most Yankee fans hate ARod.
Well, 3% is the annual average of "Brady betterment"...and it's really "only" 3% because Brady had some down years 2012 and 2013.
In 2000 thru 2006 -- which included a couple of Super Bowl teams, mind you -- Brady was completing 60, 61, 62, 63%. Brady was ALREADY a good QB.
So...'06 he completed 61.8%. Suddenly it's 68.9% the next season ... where one of the few variables is that Brady has new Patriot-minted footballs to operate with...
Now a 7.1% completion % improvement = sudden 11.5% upturn...If you're earning $61,800 per year and then get a raise to $68,900 the very next year...your boss has given you an 11.5% raise over the previous year.
11.5%!!! In a season where the Pats ALSO -- just as suddenly -- essentially stopped fumbling!
That...is quite dramatic! No gradual improvement there! (Something you'd expect from already high-quality Qs)
And then even coming off of an injury in '08, Brady had completion % higher in 09, 10, 11 than any of 00-06 (same with 2014, btw):
09: 65.7%
10: 65.9%
11: 65.6%
You portend that the only change in the history of Patriots football is the ball. Really?
You ask a very good Q here...for my response, see my next post to Cletus D. Yokel...
Somebody posted an FR article yesterday mentioning that the NFL ref was "suspicious" because he was given a ball at halftime by a Pat employee who wasn't normally involved in handling footballs.
So it raised a "chapter II" of deflategate.
Now if this guy was only "involved" because an NFL employee handed him the ball, it makes sense...and there's nothing "sinister" or "conspiracy" about this new "chapter II."
But...you're right re: the overall scandal...nothing has changed about deflategate.
#1...Brady led the Pats to Super Bowl championships in 2002, 2004, and 2005...so we're not talking about some young QB with "potential" here making a sudden market improvement...
...we're talking about a great QB suddenly getting out-of-this-world better!
(2) Receivers not having “bricks for hands”. Has that improved over your time-frame? Yep.
You know, when I first saw the fumble story...that the Pats suddenly went from a fumble every 42 touches (2000-2006) to a fumble every 74 touches (2007-2014)...and that latter stat was year in, year out success...I said..."ya know, if they were suddenly doing that...then it would also show in Brady's % of completions...because if it was the football that was helping Pat RB hold onto the ball suddenly, then it would carry across the board to the receivers in holding onto passes...Looked at the stats, and sure enough...confirmation present...
The original deflategate ‘facts’ are as bogus as the Patriot employee ‘facts’ in the last couple days.
At least the little league has standards still: http://downtrend.com/71superb/jesse-jackson-alert-cheating-black-little-league-team-losing-their-title-is-racist
NFL should learn from the little league and vacate all wins from the cheaters in seasons they cheated.
You are truly an idiot hmm I wonder if bradys improvement in 2007 had anything to do with having randy moss as a receiver? Instead of the non hall of fame receivers he had before. I know you have to believe the patriots cheated cause the alternative is to admit that your team just sucks.
Not really. If these “leaks” are true (note most of our leaks previous were not) it’s showing the league discipline around balls is seriously lacking, and that it’s most likely the refs who just plain flubbed it and let under inflated balls into the game.
What’s so shocking about that? The whole reason numerous QBs lobbied the NFL to give them more control over the balls the teams used was to give the QBs the kind of balls the liked to play with. So yes, the rule had the benefit they TOLD the competition committee it would have.
And that fumble thing has been totally debunked multiple times. It’s just bad math and stupid thinking. Really, some folks just need to get over it.
BTW the only ball that was two pounds under was the ball the colts had unsupervised possession of.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/report-only-one-pats-football-was-badly-underinflated/ar-AA8S9L1
It shows that crew wasn’t doing a particularly good job controlling the balls. Coupled with other leaks (like being no record of the PSIs from the pre-game inspection, and the half time measurements not being nearly as bad as the initial leak) it’s looking like if the balls were under-inflated they were submitted to the refs that way and not caught. Which really isn’t on the Pats, that’s what the inspection process is for, so all the “cheating” talk becomes extra silly.
Knowingly giving a deflated ball as your game ball is cheating. Taking advantage of a weak inspection system doesn’t make it any less cheating.
That’s like saying if you can sneak a bomb on a plane it’s the TSA’s fault and you’re ok because they were supposed to stop you.
No more so than knowingly holding a guy at the line. There’s a reason the inspection happens, they’re supposed to catch this. Of course we know from interviews Aaron Rodgers has given that they don’t always catch it (he’s said he likes his over inflated, submits them that way, and gets annoyed when they let air out), notice nobody whines about him being a cheater even though he’s outright said he breaks this rule. Also keep in mind the latest leaks (so at least as unsubstantiated as the original leaks) is that 1 ball was close to 2 pounds under and the rest were just a bit under.
It’s nothing like sneaking a bomb on a plane. That’s intended to kill people. This is a game. Nobody gets killed.
What’s the penalty for sneaking an illegal football on to the field and using it during the game? See...it’s not like holding at the line. It’s cheating.
Just like what’s the penalty for capturing the other teams plays by hacking the wireless system?
Patriots are cheaters...that’s a proven fact.
bttt
They didn’t sneak anything on the field. The evidence we have is they submitted the balls to the refs, and the refs said they were OK, and those balls were used. Had they “sneaked” the penalty ranges from a stern letter from the league (happened to the Vikings and Panthers earlier in the season when they were caught heating the balls on the sideline) to a fine of fairly negligible amount.
Nobody has caught them hacking anything.
They got busted a long time ago for violating a stupid rule the league didn’t even need and immediately post dated when they changed the rules to allow the defense a radio. People need to get over it.
He’s already been shown the fumble statistics in the article are a mixture of cherry picking and junk. He’s just trolling.
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