What's more amazing is all the nfl reporters steno graphically sent out that tweet and from what I'm seeing zero followup which is just malpractice.
Just like the Josh Brown situation was "Much ado about nothing." Until that blew up in the Giants face
Shaughnessy would argue that Hernandez did it even if Odin Lloyd walked into the courtroom.
I mean lets take away the fact that Rooney Mara is pretty hot if you've ever watched house of cards. Mara is out of touch. The Pats got jobbed. That Mara quote is pretty much an admission of that.
Mike 'you are in big f*cking trouble!' Kensil is nodding at this from his new office in China.
That's Kate Mara in HoC, but the point remains. Rooney Mara was in the American version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, piercings, shaved eyebrows, and all. To bring it back to the point at hand, this is all bullshit and nothing will come of it because the only thing that could come of it with a little digging is egg on the league's face. So it will be more of "Nothing to see here, move on."
Agreed, Where the hell is the investigation? They were a whole point below acceptable levels. We want justice.
Which protocol wasn't followed in the Patriots' case? You know, aside from the refs not being sure which gauge they used to fill up the balls, or us having no proof that they even did that in the first place considering no record of the PSI prior to the game starting exists.
Except of course the protocol that says you can't fuck with balls on the sideline which the Giants did. Holy fuck, do I hate this clownshow of a league.
I would guess Goodell is referring to the chain of custody situation with the Patriots balls. Also fuck him.
Exactly. It's in the rulebook, the Chargers got a $20K fine for doing something similar. Only the officials are allowed to test the PSIs of the footballs. Not the Giants, not the Steelers, not nobody.
Yep I screwed up on that one. But this is ridiculous. The double standard is truly amazing
I'm not saying they should lose a draft pick or anything, but don't come out with a blatant lie that protocols were followed, At least hit them with the $25k fine.
It gets easier if you don't pay attention to stuff like this. As you noted, the league is clownshow and after what the Patriots/Brady went through as well as having to hear the cries about cheating, a New England fan can only retain sanity by watching the games and ignoring everything else. I appreciate the posters here who allow me to filter out all of the hot takes and only focus on the news (injuries, coach & player comments). I won't do it myself after the stupidity out of the league, its messengers and its mouth-breathing fans over the past ~ two years.
Isn't the obvious answer that Goodell opened his mouth and announced the PSI sampling prematurely, and the NFL's lawyers then pointed out to him that it might not be a good idea to document evidence that has the potential to completely undercut their legal case against Brady? (Because at that point the case was still in litigation.) Which is how Goodell came to announce last year that no records were being kept of the random sampling and the only comment the NFL had was that there was no problem.
Lots of posters and reporters are writing the same thought, but didn't they acknowledge that cold weather reduces air pressure in the Wells Report and that the Pats balls being .1 or .2 outside of the expected range meant the balls were tampered with? Why are people saying that acknowledging that Pitt's balls were below 12.5 PSI would have been some sort of massive revelation by the NFL that science actually exists. This is why they pivoted to the procedural stuff like destroying the cell phone because focusing on the science would have lost them the battle in the court of public opinion.
Right, the entire conclusion of the Wells report was that weather did not FULLY explain the decrease in PSI (even though, of course, it did).
I think there are a few problems. The Exponent data is somewhat buried and that league knows that many -- probably a large majority -- are still laboring under the misimpression that the Patriots balls were 2 PSI below expected. While you and I everyone posting in this thread knows that the true difference found by Exponent -- even assuming their gauge shenanigans and that the Colts balls were measured in the same conditions -- is only .1 to .4 PSI from what Exponent "expected," this fact is not well known. I think if the league were to actually acknowledge that balls are routinely used at 11 PSI, there would be a "wait what" moment at least for some. And maybe it causes someone to actually ask the question that has no answer -- so, you mean this guy went into the bathroom and was able to uniformly release .2 PSI from each ball in 80 seconds? That stretches credibility. And, in any event, why would anyone bother?
But the Giants DID grab a couple of balls, measure them at 11.4 and 11.8 PSI, and bitch to the league about deflated balls (not quite sure the order of those last two events). And that info was then leaked to the press, presumably by those very same Giants to let people know what scumbags the Steelers are.
