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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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Those are just a few things that popped into my head the first few days. Then over the next few days there were so many more reasons to believe it was deliberate.
Yeah 10 balls right around 1 psi low supposedly 1 2 psi and 1 0 psi. To me that just shows when you only have 90 seconds you can miss 1 ball and take air out of another ball twice by mistake.
What a crock of shit.
He didn't even deflate them for the full 2.2 seconds required, and he missed two balls. (The one in the very front, and the one that's on top, in the bag's handle for most of it)
And he still came in at 77 seconds. So, you do the math...
Edit: Also note they never actually checked the pressure of the balls after.
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What a crock of shit.
He didn't even deflate them for the full 2.2 seconds required, and he missed two balls. (The one in the very front, and the one that's on top, in the bag's handle for most of it)
And he still came in at 77 seconds. So, you do the math...
Edit: Also note they never actually checked the pressure of the balls after.
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He did it 12 times, but missed two balls. Watch again. I will take a screenshot for you and point to the balls he missed if that's what it really takes.
Furthermore, if you had simply read the article instead of just watching the pretty video, you would see:
He did it 12 times, but missed two balls. Watch again. I will take a screenshot for you and point to the balls he missed if that's what it really takes.
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I wasn't asking you specifically. It was a general comment. And have you never heard the idiom "Do the math" before?
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This is all speculation on your part.
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He did it 12 times, but missed two balls. Watch again. I will take a screenshot for you and point to the balls he missed if that's what it really takes.
Furthermore, if you had simply read the article instead of just watching the pretty video, you would see:
No, I don't. The two missed balls and lack of time with each ball is very relevant, no matter how much you wish it to not be. So you now agree it took him 77 seconds, and retract your previous silly statements?
I wasn't asking you specifically. It was a general comment. And have you never heard the idiom "Do the math" before?
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This is all speculation on your part.
As far as the single person bathroom--the experiment was done in a single stall. Pretty good chance that a full bathroom with a sink and maybe both a toilet and a urinal would be larger than a single stall with just a toilet, even allowing that the stall appeared to be a larger handicapped stall.
The attendant would have had 24 balls with him but I'm sure they wouldn't be all mixed together in one bag. So while taking up a little more space I wouldn't think it would be much of a hindrance. Just toss the other bag off to the side and get to the deflation.
The 77 seconds falls well under the 90 seconds the attendant was in the bathroom. For the experiment they had determined that it took 2.2 seconds to deflate the football by 2psi. So the guy deflating the football is estimating that time when he is deflating each football. Granted, that is a pretty difficult task.
However, there is a huge margin of error built in to the experiment already. As we have already heard the actual footballs from the game were deflated only 1psi, with one apparently not deflated at all and one deflated 2psi, as previously discussed. So, if it takes 2.2 seconds to deflate the football 2psi, it is reasonable that it likely takes about 1.1 seconds to deflate the football 1psi. At least that should be close enough for this experiment. So the guy in the video was shooting for 2.2 seconds. Even if in reality he only held the pin in each ball for around half of his desired time, it should have been long enough to let out 1psi.
It would have been nicer if they had shown the actual pressure in the footballs after the test, but you really can't shoot down the results just because you don't like the argument. It isn't conclusive, but I think the experiment indeed shows it would be possible for the attendant to deflate all twelve balls in 90 seconds.
Myth not yet busted.