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So What Does Everyone Think About Deflate-Gate?
January 22, 2015 at
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The title says it. What does everyone think about this bizarre "Deflate-Gate" deal that is far more interesting that this year's Super Bowl? Belichick reaffirmed that he knew nothing at all about the football preparation and denied having anything to do with it.
Tom Brady is supposed to be talking publicly very soon and may be admitting to arranging to have the footballs prepped to the way he likes them.
So, is this a big deal? Is this something that happens with pretty much every team and it has just become public?
Tom Brady is supposed to be talking publicly very soon and may be admitting to arranging to have the footballs prepped to the way he likes them.
So, is this a big deal? Is this something that happens with pretty much every team and it has just become public?
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He said "I think if you like your football you should be able to keep your football. If you like your air pressure you should be able to keep your air pressure."
He said "I think if you like your football you should be able to keep your football. If you like your air pressure you should be able to keep your air pressure."
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Bottom line, if the league didn't want QBs setting up their game balls then they wouldn't give the footballs back to the team after the inspection. Unfortunately they are now stuck between a rock and a hard place.
All in all, I don't think this particular offense is anything to go crazy over, but it's part of an overall pattern of cheating that has come out of this franchise, and I personally think at some point, there has to be penalties that exceed fines and draft picks. Take a win away and watch how they stop cheating.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vd3D2gs
one was proven to have involvement, the other has not. player safety for intentionally targeting players to injure them is far worse, at least IMO, than having a football at 9.5psi versus 11.5-12.5...
Obviously safety is the bigger issue, but the fact that Belichick is a repeat offender leads me to believe he's going to bring the hammer down on him.
He said "I think if you like your football you should be able to keep your football. If you like your air pressure you should be able to keep your air pressure."
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vd3D2gs
All in all, I don't think this particular offense is anything to go crazy over, but it's part of an overall pattern of cheating that has come out of this franchise, and I personally think at some point, there has to be penalties that exceed fines and draft picks. Take a win away and watch how they stop cheating.
No one knows if it happened after, no one knows if the refs checked it and it passed. That's all assumptions.
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No one knows if it happened after, no one knows if the refs checked it and it passed. That's all assumptions.
In the case at hand, if it turns out the balls were already under-inflated and it was missed during the inspection then I wouldn't fault anybody on the Patriots. I would like to hear directly from the individual who actually inspected the balls in the first place and see if they seem credible or not.