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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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Mystery not solved.
Your false dichotomy doesn't impress me.
12 playing balls. 3 kicking balls. for 30 balls between each team. 6 other balls held by the refs in case they are needed, like it was in the Sunday game when the Patriots were required to use theirs in the 2nd half.
Your claim was that:
You have zero evidence anything was wrong with the balls the previous game, nor do you have evidence they tampered with the balls this game.
Would I win in court if I argued that while I did drive while under the influence its not my fault because I was under the legal limit before I started driving?
Plus how good would that go over if I had prior DUIs (spygate)? Their is a history of cheating here that can't be ignored.
I thought players get better with time. But Brady hasn't won anywhere close to how he did before spygate
Your claim was that:
You have zero evidence anything was wrong with the balls the previous game, nor do you have evidence they tampered with the balls this game.
Your claim was that:
You have zero evidence anything was wrong with the balls the previous game, nor do you have evidence they tampered with the balls this game.
If you can prove this is a common thing then maybe you have a point. Until then the Patriots cheated
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The refs tested the balls before the game. They were at the legal limit. There is no mention of filling temperature or storage temperature in the rules. Do the teams now also have to account for the laws of thermodynamics to make sure that their balls don't decrease in pressure during the first half of the game to slightly under legal?
If you can prove this is a common thing then maybe you have a point. Until then the Patriots cheated
When's the last time that a team has had all 12 of their balls tested in similar environmental conditions under similar circumstances at half-time? If you can prove this is a common thing then maybe you have a point. Until then the Patriots didn't cheat.
After Thursday's Pro Bowl practice at Luke Air Force Base in Glendale, Arizona, Jackson said he couldn't tell whether the ball he intercepted in the second quarter of a 45-7 loss to the New England Patriots was or wasn't deflated below the threshold allowed by the NFL.
"I'm a linebacker, I'm a defensive guy," Jackson said. "If anybody recognized anything it definitely wouldn't come from me."
After picking off Patriots quarterback Tom Brady with about 9:21 left in the first half, Jackson said he gave the ball to the Colts' equipment staff to save for him as a "souvenir." He didn't know what happened to the football after that and said it's still "beyond" him as to what the chain of events were.
Asked how the football got to NFL officials, Jackson said, "That's a question that I can't answer."
"I don't know how it got to this point," he said. "Somehow I'm in the middle of it."
I actually respect Lance Armstrong more than the Patriots. A bunch of other cyclists were caught doping. In the NFL the Patriots have had steroids users like every team but they are the only ones that we know for sure deflating balls and taping practices.
Spygate, deflategate and a repeat murderer, yeah this is the new americas team, literally. But that says more about today's america than it does the patriots.
If you can prove this is a common thing then maybe you have a point. Until then the Patriots cheated
I actually respect Lance Armstrong more than the Patriots. A bunch of other cyclists were caught doping. In the NFL the Patriots have had steroids users like every team but they are the only ones that we know for sure deflating balls and taping practices.
Spygate, deflategate and a repeat murderer, yeah this is the new americas team, literally. But that says more about today's america than it does the patriots.
2) You haven't proven they deflated balls
3) Hernandez has not been convicted in a court of law by a jury of his peers.
You're really coming off as a butthurt Patriots-hater. You're making a whole lot of accusations with little fact to back anything up, except your blind prejudice towards the team.
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The refs tested the balls before the game. They were at the legal limit. There is no mention of filling temperature or storage temperature in the rules. Do the teams now also have to account for the laws of thermodynamics to make sure that their balls don't decrease in pressure during the first half of the game to slightly under legal?
You would win in court if you were breathalyzed at .09 and by the time you got to the police station for a blood test, you had metabolized enough alcohol that you wound up at .07, which is a more fair analogy here.
Past bad acts generally cannot be used as evidence that you may have committed a crime based on the fact you have committed similar crimes in the past.
Sounds like you just don't like Brady and the Patriots.
Guilty until proven innocent? Nice!
When's the last time that a team has had all 12 of their balls tested in similar environmental conditions under similar circumstances at half-time? If you can prove this is a common thing then maybe you have a point. Until then the Patriots didn't cheat.
Seems like no other team has brought probable cause to have their balls checked.
Maybe just to prove a point the Patriots should start challenging every opoents balls in cold weather.
Funny, when Spygate was first breaking a lot of similar excuses were being made.
Its like sex offenders, they have to register and let everyone know where they live. Because lepoards don't change their spots.
Remember Brady was a life long back up and they went like 12-4 with Cassell. Yes Cassell