#1...these refs don't make their living tossing & catching footballs day in, day out, during football season. (guess who does?)
The pace of the NFL is fairly frenetic...not standing there...weighing the ball in hands each play.
#2...Baseball umpires may catch a scruffed up or cut-up baseball, but thats because they are constantly tossing out baseballs during the game...even when they don't carefully scrutinize them...Football refs simply rotate in the same balls...and don't have a "toss them out" mechanic ingrained in them
If baseball umps didn't toss out so many balls & used the same old 12 balls during the course of the same game, & didn't want to slow the game down by scrutinizing them...yes, you'd have more cut-up/scruffed-up/ lopsided (from that hard-hit double hit the previous inning) baseballs remaining in play.
And what? You don't know what pitchers can do with that? Or a slightly lopsided ball?
And for a pitcher who's been throwing with such baseballs 92 to 93% of ALL pitches the first half of a game then to give a press conference indicating they couldn't tell the difference when what they do is to throw baseballs for a living & toss them almost day in day out February thru October????
Wow!
Just how gullible ARE the Patriot online apologists to believe Brady's press-conference comments hook line & sinker?
The pace of the NFL is fairly frenetic...not standing there...weighing the ball in hands each play.”
I agree. Brady has the ball such a short time under very frenetic conditions so he would never notice small pressure changes.
Not a Patriot fan, but what was thw difference in the second half again?