#DFG: Canceling the Noise
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If you're gonna mess with the balls, why not do the kicking balls too? A slight variation on the pressure of those balls would have much more of an effect on the game action I would think.
Ah that's right I forgot. My bad.
I'm guessing that'll be the case with all the balls starting next year.
I'm guessing that'll be the case with all the balls starting next year.
Collins worth suggesting that Brady should be more defiant and definitive in his denial. That is what BB & Kraft did and there are plenty of critics who skewered them for that and called them phonies and hypocrites etc. Really a no-win. If you are a Patriot hater, you are going to spin anything that any of them do or don't say to fit your own agenda. F Collinsworth for acting like he now knows something bc of the way Brady answered questions in the interview with Costasjohnmd20 said:
RememberTheGronkans said:
And fuck you Bill Nye. Of course, I already felt that way. But fuck you anyway.
What a giant, spotlight loving, douche.
Chris Carter really really really needs to shut the fuck up. Like stuff a bag of big porn star cocks in his mouth shut up.
Dilfer is giving it to him good though.
Dilfer is giving it to him good though.
So after watching Goodell play shrinking violet over the past few days and basically disappear after the game... what is the over/under on days before he is no longer commissioner?
My dick just got inflated beyond 13.5 psi. tonight. There's nothing the NFL can do but blow me.
Too many threads to read: Has http://www.its.caltech.edu/~jjewell/documents/deflategate_joe_jewell_analysis.pdf been posted previously? Theoretical argument suggesting that simply inflating the balls quickly would have led to a ~2 psi deflation, and that the whole thing is innocuous.
SumnerH said:
I wouldn't be too sure of that. He has boxed himself into a bad place.
This non-issue has been so badly mishandled that whatever he ultimately does he will enrage a significant percentage of his bosses. That doesn't bode well for long-term job security.
"Armen Keteyian has an eye-opening interview with NFL executive vice president of football operations Troy Vincent on Showtime’s “60 Minutes Sports” show that airs Tuesday night.
Two things surprised me the most. Vincent admitted it was Colts GM Ryan Grigson who turned in the Patriots for the suspected under-inflated football."
Should GM's be making that kind of complaint to the league?
http://mmqb.si.com/2015/02/02/super-bowl-49-patriots-defeat-seahawks/print/
Two things surprised me the most. Vincent admitted it was Colts GM Ryan Grigson who turned in the Patriots for the suspected under-inflated football."
Should GM's be making that kind of complaint to the league?
http://mmqb.si.com/2015/02/02/super-bowl-49-patriots-defeat-seahawks/print/
Hoya81 said:
Should the NFL give credence to a guy who traded a first round pick for Trent Richardson?
Hoya81 said:
Some of us have been making this same point for literally 2 weeks: that turning this into a "serious violation that will be investigated", Goodell set a precedent that rewards people who amount to nothing more than spiteful tattle-tails. For, like, the 100,000th time: he should have said they'd look into it after the season because it was a technical equipment violation that had no bearing on performance. The end. Then he should have told Grigson to cut the shit in private.
Brian Greene! That's worth four Nyes and three NDTs put together. I'm going to get drunk and reread The Elegant Universe.lambeau said:
Sorry I don't have a link or more data, but the Seattle local news just now teased a "new report" that only one of twelve balls measured under 12.5. Sorry if it's a red herring, but hopefully someone can confirm. I wouldn't put it past this local news to report inaccurately, but it seemed worth mentioning here.
EDIT: It's the same source as Rapoport, but slightly more sensationalized. Carry on.
EDIT: It's the same source as Rapoport, but slightly more sensationalized. Carry on.
Not sure if this is the right thread for the press conference.
- Brady still sounds really sick.
- Brady saying again how proud he is of the team for not giving up.
- Q: How much longer can you keep doing this? A: I love doing this.
- Q: Talk about 4th quarter. A: I made a few stupid throws to put us in the hole ... Coaches put in a lot of work to get us to this point ... We had 2 great weeks of practice ...
Edit:
- Q: Were you concerned Edelman had a concussion? A: Yeah he took a big hit ... He ran an in cut and Chancellor gave him a big hit ... We're from the same area of California, for him to work his way up the depth chart speaks to him and his work ethic and upbringing. Just a phenomenal player who played the biggest game of his life in the biggest game of his career. We had a great time last night talking about it.
- Q: When Kearse made that play were you having Tyree flashbacks? A: I turned away to celebrate because I thought it was knocked away, and then he got up and started running and I was like "What happened?" I was confident the whole game we were going to win, but that play gave me a little bit of doubt... but then the defense made an amazing play. ... It took us 99 yards of the football field to stop them.
Another edit: Haha this is so strange. The regional manager of Chevrolet West is speaking and presenting Brady with his truck, and just said something like:
"This is the most capable versatile truck on the mid-sized truck market... just like Tom Brady."
I feel like the entire world has gone surreal since that magic bullet flubber-style slow-motion heart attack inducing bizarro juggling bouncing miracle catch by Kearse, and it's just continuing.
Belichick speaking now.
- Brady still sounds really sick.
- Brady saying again how proud he is of the team for not giving up.
- Q: How much longer can you keep doing this? A: I love doing this.
- Q: Talk about 4th quarter. A: I made a few stupid throws to put us in the hole ... Coaches put in a lot of work to get us to this point ... We had 2 great weeks of practice ...
Edit:
- Q: Were you concerned Edelman had a concussion? A: Yeah he took a big hit ... He ran an in cut and Chancellor gave him a big hit ... We're from the same area of California, for him to work his way up the depth chart speaks to him and his work ethic and upbringing. Just a phenomenal player who played the biggest game of his life in the biggest game of his career. We had a great time last night talking about it.
- Q: When Kearse made that play were you having Tyree flashbacks? A: I turned away to celebrate because I thought it was knocked away, and then he got up and started running and I was like "What happened?" I was confident the whole game we were going to win, but that play gave me a little bit of doubt... but then the defense made an amazing play. ... It took us 99 yards of the football field to stop them.
Another edit: Haha this is so strange. The regional manager of Chevrolet West is speaking and presenting Brady with his truck, and just said something like:
"This is the most capable versatile truck on the mid-sized truck market... just like Tom Brady."
I feel like the entire world has gone surreal since that magic bullet flubber-style slow-motion heart attack inducing bizarro juggling bouncing miracle catch by Kearse, and it's just continuing.
Belichick speaking now.
Belichick just brought up halftime in KC again:
(paraphrase): "I thought our team played as hard as we could play. We didn't play well, we didn't coach well, but we competed as hard as we could. I thought that was a tough night for us ... and I thought in the end that was a key moment for our football team."
on Revis: "We tried to sign Aqib ... He ended up going to Denver ... Revis was available ... Sometimes those things just work out."
(paraphrase): "I thought our team played as hard as we could play. We didn't play well, we didn't coach well, but we competed as hard as we could. I thought that was a tough night for us ... and I thought in the end that was a key moment for our football team."
on Revis: "We tried to sign Aqib ... He ended up going to Denver ... Revis was available ... Sometimes those things just work out."
Since we debated the idea that the NFL purposefully stoked the Deflategate fire to increase Super Bowl ratings...
The game did a 49.7 overnight rating, which is a record. But, that's just 4% higher than last year's blowout, and 3% higher than Ravens-49ers from the year before. Like I kept saying, Super Bowl ratings are remarkably consistent. The teams playing and the closeness of the game have a very small impact on the overall audience.
It never made sense that the NFL would risk trashing the reputation of the league (well, trash it *more*) to gain 4% in TV ratings.
The game did a 49.7 overnight rating, which is a record. But, that's just 4% higher than last year's blowout, and 3% higher than Ravens-49ers from the year before. Like I kept saying, Super Bowl ratings are remarkably consistent. The teams playing and the closeness of the game have a very small impact on the overall audience.
It never made sense that the NFL would risk trashing the reputation of the league (well, trash it *more*) to gain 4% in TV ratings.
Agreed, I mentioned somewhere earlier in this Goliath of a thread that I thought the NFL stood to lose more than it gained. Like a few million others, I'm very interested to see not only the results of the NFL's horribly conducted "investigation", but would love to see some sort of report on the handling of this complete cluster fuck. I'm guessing the latter is a bit much to ask.
I didn't know Edelman was from CA until this weekend. Place of birth is Redwood City, 7 miles down 101 from San Mateo, where Brady is from. Julian even went to College of San Mateo before Kent State. I'd always thought he was a Midwest guy because of Kent State. Duh. In an interview sometime before the game, I did hear him say, when asked about Ohio, gee, all the cars you see there are American made. Too bad he didn't win a Chevy truck also.dynomite said:
Stitch01 said:
There's unmistakeable audio evidence from the 2006 AFCCG. But no one cares because it doesn't fit a lazy, pre-existing narrative.
ifmanis5 said:
No they won't. The league wants offense and there's more offense when the QBs have balls that they like,
Comfortably Lomb said:
Exactly. As long as the league is wildly popular and profitable, the owners will not mess with success.SumnerH said:
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Peter King's latest MMQB column (I know, I know) contains this section, with one relevant nugget bolded here:
So aside from it being a secondhand report, this at least confirms or clarifies one detail in the chain of events - it wasBarzini Grigson all along. Presumably Irsay just knew of it in order to leak news of the reporting later that night.
So aside from it being a secondhand report, this at least confirms or clarifies one detail in the chain of events - it was
I have skimmed this thread (with rage) pretty consistently, and I have not seen this in here. If it's a repeat, my apologies.
This is an article that was published on the Rolling Stone website last week, then quickly taken down. I think it cuts to the heart of this whole stupidity and why it became the focus of the sports and news media for the past couple weeks:
Everything Stupid Is Alive, and Everything Stupid Can Kill You
And here's a Deadspin breakdown of the appearance and disappearance of said article.
This is an article that was published on the Rolling Stone website last week, then quickly taken down. I think it cuts to the heart of this whole stupidity and why it became the focus of the sports and news media for the past couple weeks:
Everything Stupid Is Alive, and Everything Stupid Can Kill You
And here's a Deadspin breakdown of the appearance and disappearance of said article.
It was wildly popular and profitable before Goodell, so its not as though correlation equals causation here. A monkey could hold the title of commish and the league will make money.Lose Remerswaal said:
Goodell has been at the helm for PR disaster after PR disaster. I don't think replacing him will hurt profitability or popularity. It likely can only help.