Posted on 01/23/2015 12:52:58 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
For more than a decade, Tom Brady has established himself as one of the greatest quarterbacks of all-time, one of the sport’s most popular and respected players. On Wednesday, Brady may have jeopardized his credibility for good.
Like Patriots coach Bill Belichick, Brady denied having anything to do with footballs being deflated in the AFC Championship Game and denied knowing it had occurred until the next day, but to the quarterback’s former peers, the NFL’s golden boy lost some of the luster he had earned in his 15-year career.
“I did not believe what Tom had to say,” former quarterback and ESPN analyst Mark Brunell said.
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I think it’s roughly the equivalent of a corked bat or doctored ball in baseball.
Baseball takes those kinds of cheating seriously, and will suspend the player.
Brady should sit a few games, starting now.
He’s probably so used to playing with under inflated footballs that he doesn’t remember what a proper one feels like.
I was willing to give Brady the benefit of the doubt on this one until Aikman addressed the controversy. Now? Not so much.
Obviously the Patriots didn't think the game would be a blowout, unless this sort of cheating was something they did for every game, and was therefore as much a part of the pre-game routine as putting on the uniform.
George Blanda played QB very effectively well into his 40s and he was no Brady. I’m a Romo fan, but deflated balls or not, Brady is the best in football and there are a LOT of jealous wanna-bes taking shots at him. Brunel never came close to a Super Bowl.
I agree with everything here except your last line. HOWEVER, if, ultimately it is proved the Patsies cheated, they should forfeit the playoff win and, if they win, the SB. Armstrong rule.
10 out of 10 players who lost against the Pats agree!
As a life long Stiller fan, I have no love for the "B boys from Boston" but I think this is too much noise about nothing.
Tire pressure will change by one psi for approximately every 10 degrees of temperature change. Lower temperatures lead to lower pressure and higher temperatures to higher pressure.
If the balls were inflated in a room at 72 degrees to a psi of 12.5 and then taken out side, where the temp was about 49 then the psi would fall to about 10.5 psi.
Where the hell is the big conspiracy and the big mystery?
I know that reporters don't have a clue about psi but one would think that the NFL officials might know about some science.
Nixon did not need Watergate to win either.
If it is all on Brady, he’ll probably get away with it. Don Sutton and Gaylord Perry certainly doctored baseballs at least during the later parts of their career. Both are in the Hall of Fame. This is a rough football equivalent.
Physicists don’t agree with your calculations.......and you haven’t explained why the Colts’ footballs didn’t experience a similar decrease.
BWAHAHAA!!!
“Can’t beat us, Call us cheaters”
This is so overblown.
D’qwell Jackson now states that he never said anything about the game ball, never noticed any difference and doesn’t know how that got started.
This is Harbaugh getting back at Brady & Belichick for making him look like an idiot and a whiner - in a game where his team led by 2 touchdowns(twice) and still lost the game.
Brady prepped 24 balls - why weren’t they all low on psi?
Where is the information from the NFL? There is only a rumor that the balls were 2 lbs softer.
Where were the refs? Aaron Rogers states that he likes a harder over - inflated ball and tries to sneak those by the refs. That statement says it all. The refs don’t check every single ball - often just picking them up and feeling them - rather than putting a gauge in them.
Finally we come to retired players who have suddenly become choir boys.
Waaaah!!!! Brunell, Bettis, and the rest of you - you’re a bunch of losers.
The Patriots beat the Ravens 35-31 the previous weekend.
“We did not notice anything,” said Harbaugh.
“We never had a ball that they ever used or anything like that on offense, so we don’t know anything about that in our game. We didn’t have a chance to handle any of their offensive footballs.”
The refs did not check all the balls. It’s as simple as that. Nobody deflated the balls after the fact - they were purposely under inflated to begin with.
I can’t find the link - but there is an ex-Bears ball handler that stated the routinely just heft the balls and do not check each and every one with a gauge,
Were the Colts balls filled to 14.5 pounds in a 72 degree room since they measured in compliance? (12.5 - 13.5) kind of think not.
NEW ENGLAND CHEATRIOTS: Proudly cheating, occasionally
getting caught, and denying since (at least) 1982.
Troy Aikman really surprised me, he really thinks the Patriots need to be severely punished, even more than Sean Payton was for “BountyGate”.
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