Not a Patriots fan, but I hope they destroy the sea gulls.
Belichick is a fricking football genius and the other coaches are piqued about that.
Based on the assumption that the sky is red, the chances that it's being blue today was a coincidence is like winning 20 lotteries in a row.
This story blows itself up in its first lines. They sky is not red, and football fumbles do not follow a normal distribution.
Belichick is a great coach and manager. No question. His past record speaks for itself.
That is not an endorsement of his team over my Seahawks, however
Go Hawks!
Go Pats! :)
Go Hawks!
Seahawks 44, Patriots 9. Give or take a field goal. That is all.
And Parcells was crazy about stripping footballs for fumbles.
People hate ‘em, cuz they ain’t ‘em.
What annoys me about “deflategate” is that the press has been far more interested in that than in any of the Obama scandals, particularly the IRS scandal. I also wish the press would retire the practice of adding the suffix “gate” to scandals; that is SO played out.
To understand Bill Belichick you Need to google and read about his father Steve who was an Assistant Coach & Scout for Navy at Annappolis for more than 30 years.
Bill was learning from his father how to study film when he was 10 years old! He is the greatest NFL coach of his generation because he has been studying the game for more than fifty years with a laser like focus that most don’t appreciate...
A deflated football is easier to grip which means it’s less likely to be fumbled, and more likely to be caught but doesn’t help in a blowout. Just like election fraud doesn’t help in a blowout election but makes a real difference in a close election. NE has been caught cheating in the past and that’s what they do. I believe they’ve probably been using deflated balls for years.
Any sandlot kid knows he can dig his fingernails into a deflated football. This gives the football more rapid spin/rotation and accuracy. The strings are the only thing you can dig your fingernails into at 13 + psi-
If your fingers ain`t on the strings in a scramble, byebye.
A 12.5 + psi football is impossible to dig your fingernails into [dangling participle, I know]
Did anybody check Tom Brady`s fingernails in that game?
At 13 +psi, in cold weather, that ball is like a small hard boulder when it comes at you truying to catch it...jammed finger knuckles is the result.
A deflated ball won`t jam your knuckles.
We ain`t stupoid, y`know.
Check that ball boy`s bank account- Is he drivin` a Ferrari?
Have your fumbles ruled to be incomplete passes.
Green Bay exposed Seattle even though they lost on special teams...
Seattle has no down field threats at wide receiver, so ...
Stack the box against the run ... Put a spy on the quarterback and ...
Seattle cannot score enough points to win unless you hand them the game, like Green Bay did.
Cheaters over the Assholes by 10 (but I do like Russell Wilson).
And I am perfectly willing to concede that Belichick has studied the game thoroughly and works very hard to elminate fumbles by intensive training and coaching.
And yet ironically my respect for Belichick's knowledge of the game makes his denials about knowing anything about ball inflation matters so incredibly unbelievable. And he then said to talk to Tom Brady about ball inflation. This makes me even more suspicious. I think someone truly innocent would just deny everything. If the officials tested 12 balls before the game--yet at half-time 11 of them were faulty--then that is simply incredible. And yet somehow the balls used by the Colts were all O.K.
And didn't the Colts complain about this in November?
What mystifies me is this: "Why should a coach of Belichick's talents want to cheat?"