#DFG: Canceling the Noise

Is there any level of suspension that you would advise Tom to accept?


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E5 Yaz

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GeorgeCostanza said:
Ditka of all people, the voice of reason on ESPN just now.
 
I'm avoiding the pre-game shows. Did they mention the nfl.com report at all?
 

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GeorgeCostanza said:
No they haven't. But differ is defending the Pats and just brought up seattles penchant for adderal right after Steve young fellated brady and Belichick.
E5 Yaz said:
I'm avoiding the pre-game shows. Did they mention the nfl.com report at all?
No they haven't. But differ is defending the Pats and just brought up seattles penchant for adderal right after Steve young fellated brady and Belichick.

Dilfer looked like he was legitimately upset at how bullshit the whole ball thing is. Ray Lewis kept quiet.
 

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E5 Yaz said:
It's unlikely to be discovered, but there's a less than rational part of me that really hopes it's discovered that the Colts took the air out of the Jackson interception ball
It is a little crazy but I've been coming around on the possibility. Jackson said he didn't notice anything different about the ball, but a major part of this cluster**** hinged on the leak that he noticed something, and that the Colts had previously noticed something in the November game.

This whole thing has been malicious from the start, and nothing about it would surprise me anymore, even sabotage. Which, by the way, would have to be treated with the harshest Goodell penalty yet.
 

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I want the same thing I've wanted since Mort's report.Annihation of the Seahawks so that they are extinct as a dynasty species. Humiliation and mockery of the media bozos who turned one plunge of an air pump into this attack on the integrity and reputation of the Patriots entire organization and fanbase. forced anal feeding is too good for them Shove their own bullshit up their asses.
I'm signing out to see if I can get up for the game.
 

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I hope the Patriots burst into the homes of each and every hater and fucking loser who's whined about cheating, eat their children alive in front of them, and then use the scattered bones as toothpicks.
 
Fuck 'em all.
 

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The Allented Mr Ripley said:
I hope the Patriots burst into the homes of each and every hater and fucking loser who's whined about cheating, eat their children alive in front of them, and then use the scattered bones as toothpicks.
 
Fuck 'em all.
 
Better keep your eyes open for wibi sitting astride on his stallion, he won't stand for these genocidal remarks.
 

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I got NBC on. Has anyone mentioned lately what dicks John Harbaugh, Tony Dungy and Peter King are?
 

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Remarkable. You will never ever be able to convince some people that the sun rises in the East and sets in the West if they believe otherwise. You can't always fix stupid.
 

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Just a terrible time for Rappaport's report to come out. It's going to be buried. The pre-game story lines were set long before today.
 

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riboflav said:
Just a terrible time for Rappaport's report to come out. It's going to be buried. The pre-game story lines were set long before today.
This will all be in the report. I'm wondering how ESPN operates that day. Blackout?
 

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Hoya81 said:
 


Florio is starting to realize that he may have been burned.
 
He was the first one to report that the balls may have been deflated significantly less than indicated in Morts' report. In typical Florio fashion, he's been playing both angles (NEP are cheaters vs. NFL is biased/incompetent).
 

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He was the first one to report that the balls may have been deflated significantly less than indicated in Morts' report
 
 
 
YO!!!!!! @sharksofvegas represent here.
 

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Papelbon's Poutine said:
 
They didn't play the whole quarter with the same ball. They get swapped out. 
 
Right, but the Indy equipment guy may have (innocently or maybe nefariously) bled off a few tenths measuring the INT ball, and then the officials did the same when they measured it.
 
For all we know "roughly two pounds down" could be a surprisingly high PSI number.
 

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riboflav said:
Just a terrible time for Rappaport's report to come out. It's going to be buried. The pre-game story lines were set long before today.
 
Almost as though the NFL wanted it this way ...
 

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snowmanny said:
Well, the evidence we have is that the Colts balls were >12.5 at halftime which is scientifically curious unless they were overinflated at some point or purposely chilled prior to pre-game testing, and that the Patriots ball that made it to the Indianapolis sideline was at a lower psi than other Patriots balls.  So, yes, there is circumstantial evidence of tampering by the Colts.  
 
The idea that the Colts' balls sat in a cold equipment truck overnight and were at game temperature when tested is completely plausible.
 

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SumnerH said:
 
The idea that the Colts' balls sat in a cold equipment truck overnight and were at game temperature when tested is completely plausible.
 
Especially given how paranoid coaches around the league seem to be about Foxborough. They would be leery of leaving the balls there overnight.
 

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SumnerH said:
 
The idea that the Colts' balls sat in a cold equipment truck overnight and were at game temperature when tested is completely plausible.
Right. There are plausible explanations as to why different balls would record different psis. And then there are conspiratorial theories that can, of course, be cut in a number of ways. Sometimes I (regrettably) fight fire with fire instead of an extinguisher.
 

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Discussion on NBC that just happened makes me almost not watch to watch the Super Bowl on NBC. There must be some internet based feed from a Russian channel or something that would be better.

No discussion of, you know, science or the reports that most balls were apparently just under. But Chris Collinsworth has more doubts because of the way Brady answered questions in an interview.

Kill me now. Is it 630 yet?
 

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djhb20 said:
Discussion on NBC that just happened makes me almost not watch to watch the Super Bowl on NBC. There must be some internet based feed from a Russian channel or something that would be better.

No discussion of, you know, science or the reports that most balls were apparently just under. But Chris Collinsworth has more doubts because of the way Brady answered questions in an interview.

Kill me now. Is it 630 yet?
 
Why would a guy say something like that without doing a single iota of research? It's beyond the pale.
 

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Collinsworth said "the NFL has opened a can of worms, and they are going to find worms."

I think that's true, but not in the way he meant it.
 

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Collinsworth said that Brady looked him in the eye Wednesday and told him flat out that he had nothing to do with it. And an interview taped Tuesday gives him pause? Fuck him with a garden rake.
 

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djhb20 said:
Collinsworth said "the NFL has opened a can of worms, and they are going to find worms."

I think that's true, but not in the way he meant it.
Look; put up or shut up Collinsworth. You know probably less than we do.  Dumb fuck.
 

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djhb20 said:
Discussion on NBC that just happened makes me almost not watch to watch the Super Bowl on NBC. There must be some internet based feed from a Russian channel or something that would be better.

No discussion of, you know, science or the reports that most balls were apparently just under. But Chris Collinsworth has more doubts because of the way Brady answered questions in an interview.

Kill me now. Is it 630 yet?
I just don't get why Tom Brady  is absolutely obligated to get mock interrogated by Media DA Bob Costas before the biggest game of his career. Instead of NBC whining about his answers they should be grateful he didn't simply say "There is an ongoing investigation and the players union has advised me against talking about it with you guys". If Bob keeps being petulant simply keep repeating which is kind of what happened but Costas would never dare cross examine Manning like that. Such garbage. 
 

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The question was whether it would be as big a deal if it was another team.

I don't think he was saying all teams do it. Maybe he was. Regardless, he was horrible in that segment.
 

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Sorry if this has been posted already:
 
https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-last-days-of-football/
 
So here’s a tip for when you’re out there surfing the internet and listening to everyone talk about the “integrity of the game.” Every time you hear that phrase, swap it out for “the value of the asset.” This makes things clearer. Because regardless of what you think about the deflated balls, Belichick winning so much has depleted the value of the other owner’s assets—and so if they can create a stir and dock him a first round pick, the way they did the last time, during so-called Spygate, when they managed to convince the world that filming something that is already being broadcast live in front of 80,000 people was a crime against integrity—then they are going to take that chance, fallout be damned.
One of the reasons everyone wants the Patriots out of the Super Bowl is that there may not be that many more to go around.
 

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djhb20 said:
The question was whether it would be as big a deal if it was another team.

I don't think he was saying all teams do it. Maybe he was. Regardless, he was horrible in that segment.
Of course he was. That's why I said fuck him with a garden rake. But I definitely got the impression that the can of worms thing did not relate to finding more as it relates directly to the Pats.
 

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mauidano said:
Look; put up or shut up Collinsworth. You know probably less than we do.  Dumb fuck.
Lost a lot of respect for him, he's been pretty decent to listen to most of the week