[Colofornian]

...the effect of under inflating the ball is to make it a little less accurate, and a little less likely to go as far.

#1 In wet conditions, it's often more about the receivers retaining the ball than even Q's throwing it...because "everyone knows" the passes are likely to be shorter anyway.

#2 The HUGE assumption here is that Brady wasn't tossing around 11-psi footballs from Tuesday thru pre-game Sunday.

IoW, we already know New England cheated here. What we don't know is who the personal culprit(s) were.

So why do the apologists operating on behalf of the cheaters on this thread assume that cheating is done always on a moment's impulse, as if this all came up suddenly on a whim Sunday afternoon?

For all we know, Brady has his equipment manager ready up 11 psi footballs all week...which carried into pre-game Sunday...

And if you've been tossing 11 psi footballs all week as a professional QB, believe me, it won't be much less accurate than a 13 psi.

[TexasGator]

“IoW, we already know New England cheated here.”

Source? Duh .... There is no source. Just reporting that “If the report is accurate ...”

[lepton]

The HUGE assumption here is that Brady wasn’t tossing around 11-psi footballs from Tuesday thru pre-game Sunday.

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Wrong again. The assumption is that Bellichick gives them crappy balls to practice with and learn to deal with, constantly...as he’s been known to do for years, especially with bad weather games expected..