Manning got the league to allow QBs to "prepare" their footballs. I think that's what he's getting at.
Hoya81 said:I think he's making reference to how the ball gets flat as the game goes on.
canderson said:Why on earth would the league want this to go away? They'll milk this until media days next week, when about 30 minutes before they issue a release finding "nothing here to see."
Everyone is talking about the NFL in its dead week. This is NFL gold.
When talking about balls, it's all about the size of your hands.Byrdbrain said:So it isn't an advantage to have it the way Aaron Rogers wants it but it is an advantage to have it the other way.
Got it.
The investigation should include GB, right?uncannymanny said:I'm assuming they have to comb through hours of tape as well. It's not going to be just examining the balls.
timelysarcasm said:
More importantly, the referees handle the ball every play. They'd feel if it was deflated.
"You just can't imagine a ball being under inflated for a significant portion of the game to make a difference, and not be noticed by the referee," he says.
timelysarcasm said:
"You just can't imagine a ball being under inflated for a significant portion of the game to make a difference, and not be noticed by the referee," he says.
Van Everyman said:I'm a Democrat but fuck it, let's strip the Corporation of Public Broadcasting of federal funding.
What the media will take from this is that Belichick will take any little advantage he can get.timelysarcasm said:
Obligatory: But they never PLAYED the game!11!!!1!timelysarcasm said:
Which is exactly one of the things I teach the boys that I coach in soccer and lax: take whatever the ref will give you. (obviously, without fouling or hurting anyone)Filet-O-Fisk said:What the media will take from this is that Belichick will take any little advantage he can get.
It is called the butterfly effect. The ball was so deflated causing the spiral to be so wobbly that it traveled back in time and hit Bostick in the facemask.MyDaughterLovesTomGordon said:I'm irrationally infuriated by all of this, but particularly with all the faux-media piling on.
Yahoo doesn't even know what game it was:
timelysarcasm said:
"You just can't imagine a ball being under inflated for a significant portion of the game to make a difference, and not be noticed by the referee," he says.
timelysarcasm said:
Still, Goff doubts the ball was deliberately deflated. (snip)
"You just can't imagine a ball being under inflated for a significant portion of the game to make a difference, and not be noticed by the referee," he says.
timelysarcasm said:
To be fair, it was around 50 on Sunday wasn't it?drleather2001 said:Another stupid thing to consider:
Colts players are not used to playing in the cold, wet, conditions. It's entirely plausible that balls feel different when your hands and the ball are exposed to different conditions. Numb fingers aren't exactly known for precision.
There is no Rev said:
I can't believe how sloppy it was of Belichick and Brady to leave all of these breadcrumbs!bmoore997 said:Are you kidding me. Don't know how much more of this I can take.
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/01/20/brady-said-in-2011-he-likes-deflated-footballs/
Ed Hillel said:I can't believe how sloppy it was of Belichick and Brady to leave all of these breadcrumbs!
I loved El Guapo's post: "C'mon, no credit for burying footballs?".There is no Rev said:
While looking for a pic of Belichick shopped as The Riddler, I found this Raider Forum thread talking about the ineligible receiver formations and how awesome Belichick is and how they wish they had a coach like that.
This is what I was thinking.geoduck no quahog said:Would one of you SOSH athletes do me a favor?
Take your high quality football and inflate it to 12.5 psi. Fuck with it. Then deflate it to 12.0 PSI. Can you tell the difference by feel? I'm curious.
Obviously a softer ball is easier to intercept and a harder ball is more difficult to intercept. Brady was just trying to respect the football gods by taking it easy on the Colts.weeba said:I'm at "fuck all of this" level. It's Super Bowl week. 12 days to the game and this is all that's being talked about. I've been refraining from responding to a friend on facebook since Monday morning who is going on about this; all I want to say to him is "you're an idiot". I don't think that will go over too well.
Then again, we would have gotten away with it if Brady didn't throw any interceptions. He needs to tighten that up.
pappymojo said:Obviously a softer ball is easier to intercept and a harder ball is more difficult to intercept. Brady was just trying to respect the football gods by taking it easy on the Colts.
In law school there's a name for the guy who jumps the shark with the hypothetical that goes beyond all bounds of any practical significance and then poses to the law professor, "wouldn't that be legal?" or "that wouldn't be a breach, right?" You, my friend, are a gunner.TimothyWSClark said:Let's say the patriots inflate the football in the sauna...and just cool the football surface enough to be room temp. Throughout the game the ball cools and you have excess deflation...perhaps an extra 1.5 PSI o of the expected 0.5. You might get the football PSI as low as 10.5. You didn't adulterate the football. You didn't alter the pressure after the referee checked it. You simply created a system that would changeover the course of the game. Clearly that violates the spirit of the rules, but the letter of them? Maybe not.
At my school, we just called them douchebags.BroodsSexton said:In law school there's a name for the guy who jumps the shark with the hypothetical that goes beyond all bounds of any practical significance and then poses to the law professor, "wouldn't that be legal?" or "that wouldn't be a breach, right?" You, my friend, are a gunner.
That works. I'll never forget the guy who posited the one-legged pregnant woman who routinely smoked crack as a hypothetical for discussing assumption of risk in the context of running a marathon. Dead seriously, too. He thought he was making a valid point.DegenerateSoxFan said:At my school, we just called them douchebags.