Posted on 06/13/2015 11:42:01 AM PDT by detective
With the Tom Brady appeal hearing only 10 days away, it could be time for another Angry Ted Wells conference call.
The American Enterprise Institute, whose truly independent analysis helped several former Saints players ultimately avoid discipline in the bounty scandal, has examined the 243-page report from the NFL’s investigator in the #DeflateGate scandal. And AEI has determined the Wells report to be “unreliable.”
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There was never any proof, just speculation and "more likely than not" phrases.
Anyone who knows anything about football knows the psi of the footballs did not have an effect on the outcome of the AFC Championship Game against the Colts.
It was shown that the lower temperatures and the wet ball would reduce the psi of the footballs.
Anyone who knows anything about football knows the psi of the footballs did not have an effect on the outcome of the AFC Championship Game against the Colts.
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I think Brady proved that he could care less if balls are properly inflated. There does seem to be evidence, though, that he can’t play with balls that are overinflated.
I read the report when it came out, and I couldn’t believe how flimsy the evidence is. The NFL really has no reliable standard for determining football pressure and that’s all the report proved.
Good Lord, people, this isn’t a criminal investigation. There is no standard of “reasonable doubt” here.
Brady refused to fully cooperate with investigators. Fact.
Pats organization refused to fully cooperate with investigation. Fact.
The punishments laid down reflect not only the results of the report, but also the ongoing pattern of deception and lack of integrity that have become hallmarks of Kraft’s organization. Kraft’s decision to not appeal only confirms the crookedness of the outfit.
Brady gave a 5 hr interview, they already had Jewreski and McNally’s texts. This spin was nonsense, so Wells and Goodell could cover up a failed sting by Goodell’s Leiutenants and Grigson.
The balls behaved EXACTLY as gas law dictated.
BTW here is the AEI report that buries Wells’s Drek:
https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/On-the-Wells-report.pdf
http://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Deflategate_infographic_larger_b.jpg
The Patriot homers will ignore all evidence and make excuses. Sports is the one time where conservatives act like brainwashed democrats. Your facts are the reason there was fairly significant punishment for Brady and the organization. There was already knowledge they were playing with illegal balls as shown in the letter to the league. Then they acted inappropriately with the game balls after the officials checked them. Then by halftime he balls were below allowed psi. After being caught they denied, refused access and blew off the Investigation as not serious. The issue has nothing to do with the outcome of the game. Bringing it up is obnoxious. I bet dollars to donuts they did the same a week earlier in a razor thin win over the Ravens. Slight advantage would easily have made the difference. Bottom line, the punishment was not even challenged in the end by the organization. It was just.
“Brady refused to fully cooperate with investigators. Fact.”
The way I understand it is that Brady refused to hand over his phone and text messages. Big difference.
Yes, he was asked to turn over certain records and texts from certain dates to corroborate his story. He refused. By definition, that is lack of full cooperation.
Cleveland’s GM got four games for on-field violations of league policy. Same goes for Atlanta. Jimmy Irsay got six games for something that didn’t even happen on the field. All of these men cooperated with the League and acted contrite after getting busted.
Brady and Kraft, meanwhile, acted like petulant children who got caught with their hands in the cookie jar but deny it anyway. They mocked the entire process and questioned the League’s integrity, even in the face of pretty damning evidence. Frankly they should’ve gotten more.
By the same measure...the Colts played with “illegal ball”. Why? Because the played outdoors with a temperature not between 94F and 56F. No football can start within the limit prescribed in the rules and end within it.
For starting at 12.6 - within the rule - at 75F, it would be illegal at 72F and below...just from temperature change,
Your posted statement doesn’t mean what you think it means. Of course their balls were out of the range...it more than two degrees cooler on the field during the game than it was where they were measured.
That’s part of the reason the converse was true: that a ball pumped up to 13 PSI during the early/middle part of halftime while the ball was still cold was at 13.7 PSI when measured after the game...per the Wells Report.
The ball that kicked off the whole thing was apparently within the expected range from cooling alone...per the Wells report.
By the same measure...the Colts played with “illegal balls”. Why? Because they played outdoors with a temperature not between 94F and 56F. No football can start within the limit prescribed in the rules and end within it without additional factors.
For starting at 12.6 PSI - within the rule - at 75F, it would be illegal at 72F and below...just from temperature change, That isn’t a conspiracy or outlandish claim...it’s several hundred years of basic physics known and published with replicated proofs before the reign of William and Mary, and on which a major part of the industrial revolution is based.
Your posted statement doesn’t mean what you think it means. Of course their balls were out of the range...it was more than two degrees cooler on the field during the game than it was where they were measured.
That’s part of the reason the converse was true: that a ball pumped up to 13 PSI during the early/middle part of halftime while the ball was still cold was at 13.7 PSI when measured after the game...per the Wells Report.
The ball that kicked off the whole thing was apparently within the expected range from cooling alone...per the Wells report.
Actually it is the Patriot haters who are ignorant/ignoring basic science. And even the timeline of the supposed damning tapes.
Roger Goodell is the doofus who gave an NFL thug a two game suspension for beating the crap out of a woman.
Now he is showing he is tough about the psi of game balls.
His new found toughness is sadly misplaced. Goodell should be FIRED!
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