Patriots being investigated after Colts game (3 Viewers)

[sho nuff]

Per a league source... When pressed on certain facts relating to Bradys potential knowledge or involvement, the answers were regarded by some in the room (i.e., some who arent paid to exonerate Brady) as not entirely credible.

If the source is indeed from the league and credible, he is going to eat those 4 games.

Sooo, worse case, Brady is stuck with a suspension that is 2 games less than the Steelers face of the franchise got for raping a woman?

Yay, wave that towel Steeler fans , love and adore the rapist, but hate Brady because he might have done something that pales in comparison to what your "hero" did.

Oh the rape was no big deal you say? You want to stick to football? Ok, lets talk about what Terry Bradshaw admitted the Steelers illegally did to the footballs back in their steroid fueled, err dynasty days

You don't hate Brady cuz the steelers on their best freaking day can't beat him, no, no, no, no, no; you hate him because you are morally opposed to rapists, um cheaters, um teams with qbs that are rapists and or cheat that aren't the steelers, ya, ya that's the ticket.

Steeler fan stone throwers, salt of the earth I tell ya, salt of the earth; god bless em.........

Do urself and your franchise a favor and stop with the stone throwing

I challenge all the stone throwers to make their team allegiances clear so the more probable than not standard can be applied equally. Or is that somehow unfair? Of course there are a the cowardly who use alias's and we will just have to do our best to ignore them all together.

Thinking he is guilty and deserving of a suspension does not mean its about hatred.im a Packers fan...poke all you want. Does not change what likely happened with the pats.

 

[Bayhawks]

Someone Brady trusts needs to pull him aside and explain that if he takes this to federal court he's not protecting his legacy, he's taking a sledgehammer to it.

Depends. If he is truly innocent, and he feels the courts would exonerate him, go for it. The questions remains: why did he refuse to cooperate, with regards to copies of the requested texts. If there is a valid reason (not the nonsense that some Pats homers have suggested in this thread), going to court wouldn't destroy his legacy.

If, however, there is something to hide in those texts, or he just arrogantly thinks "I'm Tom Brady, they can't do this to me," then yeah, going through the courts would be stupid.

 

[NE_REVIVAL]

Per a league source... When pressed on certain facts relating to Bradys potential knowledge or involvement, the answers were regarded by some in the room (i.e., some who arent paid to exonerate Brady) as not entirely credible.

If the source is indeed from the league and credible, he is going to eat those 4 games.

Sooo, worse case, Brady is stuck with a suspension that is 2 games less than the Steelers face of the franchise got for raping a woman?

Yay, wave that towel Steeler fans , love and adore the rapist, but hate Brady because he might have done something that pales in comparison to what your "hero" did.

Oh the rape was no big deal you say? You want to stick to football? Ok, lets talk about what Terry Bradshaw admitted the Steelers illegally did to the footballs back in their steroid fueled, err dynasty days

You don't hate Brady cuz the steelers on their best freaking day can't beat him, no, no, no, no, no; you hate him because you are morally opposed to rapists, um cheaters, um teams with qbs that are rapists and or cheat that aren't the steelers, ya, ya that's the ticket.

Steeler fan stone throwers, salt of the earth I tell ya, salt of the earth; god bless em.........

Do urself and your franchise a favor and stop with the stone throwing

I challenge all the stone throwers to make their team allegiances clear so the more probable than not standard can be applied equally. Or is that somehow unfair? Of course there are a the cowardly who use alias's and we will just have to do our best to ignore them all together.

Thinking he is guilty and deserving of a suspension does not mean its about hatred.im a Packers fan...poke all you want. Does not change what likely happened with the pats.

I'm not denying there are many who have no bias toward Brady and NE and believe there was some wrong doing; maybe there was. That does not change the rank hypocrisy being displayed by so many of the haters who's main problem with the Brady is the obscene amount of success he and NE have had over the last 14 years.

Here is that "poke" you asked for.

Aaron Rodgers likes his footballs overinflated

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/01/20/aaron-rodgers-likes-his-footballs-overinflated/

“‘I like to push the limit to how much air we can put in the football, even go over what they allow you to do and see if the officials take air out of it,'” Simms said Rodgers told them before the game.

.....

On his weekly radio show with ESPN Milwaukee, Rodgers confirmed that he prefers the balls to be overinflated, and that he doesn’t think there should be a maximum air pressure.

Like fish in a barrel.........

 

[Bayhawks]

Per a league source... When pressed on certain facts relating to Bradys potential knowledge or involvement, the answers were regarded by some in the room (i.e., some who arent paid to exonerate Brady) as not entirely credible.

If the source is indeed from the league and credible, he is going to eat those 4 games.

Sooo, worse case, Brady is stuck with a suspension that is 2 games less than the Steelers face of the franchise got for raping a woman?

Yay, wave that towel Steeler fans , love and adore the rapist, but hate Brady because he might have done something that pales in comparison to what your "hero" did.

Oh the rape was no big deal you say? You want to stick to football? Ok, lets talk about what Terry Bradshaw admitted the Steelers illegally did to the footballs back in their steroid fueled, err dynasty days

You don't hate Brady cuz the steelers on their best freaking day can't beat him, no, no, no, no, no; you hate him because you are morally opposed to rapists, um cheaters, um teams with qbs that are rapists and or cheat that aren't the steelers, ya, ya that's the ticket.

Steeler fan stone throwers, salt of the earth I tell ya, salt of the earth; god bless em.........

Do urself and your franchise a favor and stop with the stone throwing

I challenge all the stone throwers to make their team allegiances clear so the more probable than not standard can be applied equally. Or is that somehow unfair? Of course there are a the cowardly who use alias's and we will just have to do our best to ignore them all together.

Thinking he is guilty and deserving of a suspension does not mean its about hatred.im a Packers fan...poke all you want. Does not change what likely happened with the pats.

I'm not denying there are many who have no bias toward Brady and NE and believe there was some wrong doing; maybe there was. That does not change the rank hypocrisy being displayed by so many of the haters who's main problem with the Brady is the obscene amount of success he and NE have had over the last 14 years.

Here is that "poke" you asked for.

Aaron Rodgers likes his footballs overinflated

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/01/20/aaron-rodgers-likes-his-footballs-overinflated/

“‘I like to push the limit to how much air we can put in the football, even go over what they allow you to do and see if the officials take air out of it,'” Simms said Rodgers told them before the game.

.....

On his weekly radio show with ESPN Milwaukee, Rodgers confirmed that he prefers the balls to be overinflated, and that he doesn’t think there should be a maximum air pressure.

Like fish in a barrel.........

Fish in a barrel?

The bolded is essentally what NE SAID they did (at the other extreme): prep the balls, set them to the lowest allowable PSI, then let the refs inspect them, hope they pass, then allow the PSI to drop as a result of their prep (essentially raising the temp of the balls by vigourously rubbing them), which results in a ball below the lower threshold. IMO, that's not "cheating;" it's pushing the envelope. The cheating is when the Pats allegedly tampered with the balls AFTER the refs inspected them. Based on the texts that we've read/heard about, IMO, there's reason to believe that McNally and Jastremeski did that, and possible with Brady directing them to do so, or knowing they were doing so.

Now, you may think that Brady is innocent and he didn't have anything to do with post-inspection deflation, that's another issue, but comparing what Rodgers said to what Brady is being suspended for is almost as ridiculous as comparing deflating footballs (post-inspection) to teams who get penalized alot for hits to the head.

 

[sho nuff]

Per a league source... When pressed on certain facts relating to Bradys potential knowledge or involvement, the answers were regarded by some in the room (i.e., some who arent paid to exonerate Brady) as not entirely credible.

If the source is indeed from the league and credible, he is going to eat those 4 games.

Sooo, worse case, Brady is stuck with a suspension that is 2 games less than the Steelers face of the franchise got for raping a woman?

Yay, wave that towel Steeler fans , love and adore the rapist, but hate Brady because he might have done something that pales in comparison to what your "hero" did.

Oh the rape was no big deal you say? You want to stick to football? Ok, lets talk about what Terry Bradshaw admitted the Steelers illegally did to the footballs back in their steroid fueled, err dynasty days

You don't hate Brady cuz the steelers on their best freaking day can't beat him, no, no, no, no, no; you hate him because you are morally opposed to rapists, um cheaters, um teams with qbs that are rapists and or cheat that aren't the steelers, ya, ya that's the ticket.

Steeler fan stone throwers, salt of the earth I tell ya, salt of the earth; god bless em.........

Do urself and your franchise a favor and stop with the stone throwing

I challenge all the stone throwers to make their team allegiances clear so the more probable than not standard can be applied equally. Or is that somehow unfair? Of course there are a the cowardly who use alias's and we will just have to do our best to ignore them all together.

Thinking he is guilty and deserving of a suspension does not mean its about hatred.im a Packers fan...poke all you want. Does not change what likely happened with the pats.

I'm not denying there are many who have no bias toward Brady and NE and believe there was some wrong doing; maybe there was. That does not change the rank hypocrisy being displayed by so many of the haters who's main problem with the Brady is the obscene amount of success he and NE have had over the last 14 years.

Here is that "poke" you asked for.

Aaron Rodgers likes his footballs overinflated

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/01/20/aaron-rodgers-likes-his-footballs-overinflated/

“‘I like to push the limit to how much air we can put in the football, even go over what they allow you to do and see if the officials take air out of it,'” Simms said Rodgers told them before the game.

.....

On his weekly radio show with ESPN Milwaukee, Rodgers confirmed that he prefers the balls to be overinflated, and that he doesn’t think there should be a maximum air pressure.

Like fish in a barrel.........

Like fish in a barrel.

This has been discussed before...what Rodgers does is "before" any inspection. If they catch it...great...he does nothing.

What the Patriots are accused of...and having been found more likely than not to be guilty of is tampering with balls after inspection.

Rodgers actions...not really against league rules.

Patriots...against league rules.

Too easy

 

[Faust]

Decision on Brady's appeal on hold until next week?

 

[Dr. Octopus]

I challenge all the stone throwers to make their team allegiances clear so the more probable than not standard can be applied equally. Or is that somehow unfair? Of course there are a the cowardly who use alias's and we will just have to do our best to ignore them all together.

I "hate" Brady because I'm a Jets fan and he's a Pat. I don't really hate him as a person and think he's the second best QB in NFL history - just hate him in the sports fan sense.

I'm enjoying the Pats getting dragged through the mud of course, but said form the very beginning of this thread that it's much ado about nothing. However the Pats arrogance and cheating ways (not interested in rehashing all of it so don't bother) puts a target on their back that they somewhat deserve.

All of that said, frankly I don't really care what happens with the suspension since I think the Pats can go 3-1 or 2-2 at worst without him. In a way I think it may be fun to watch Jimmy G early in the season (on opening night at least) and see what he has.

I also think the Pats fans trying to either spin things on this topic or showing their flat out ignorance in some cases is very funny. If I was a Pats fan I'd take comfort in the Super Bowl victory that isn't going away and not offer lame defenses and conspiracy theories that make me look like a loon.

 

[NE_REVIVAL]

Per a league source... When pressed on certain facts relating to Bradys potential knowledge or involvement, the answers were regarded by some in the room (i.e., some who arent paid to exonerate Brady) as not entirely credible.

If the source is indeed from the league and credible, he is going to eat those 4 games.

Sooo, worse case, Brady is stuck with a suspension that is 2 games less than the Steelers face of the franchise got for raping a woman?

Yay, wave that towel Steeler fans , love and adore the rapist, but hate Brady because he might have done something that pales in comparison to what your "hero" did.

Oh the rape was no big deal you say? You want to stick to football? Ok, lets talk about what Terry Bradshaw admitted the Steelers illegally did to the footballs back in their steroid fueled, err dynasty days

You don't hate Brady cuz the steelers on their best freaking day can't beat him, no, no, no, no, no; you hate him because you are morally opposed to rapists, um cheaters, um teams with qbs that are rapists and or cheat that aren't the steelers, ya, ya that's the ticket.

Steeler fan stone throwers, salt of the earth I tell ya, salt of the earth; god bless em.........

Do urself and your franchise a favor and stop with the stone throwing

I challenge all the stone throwers to make their team allegiances clear so the more probable than not standard can be applied equally. Or is that somehow unfair? Of course there are a the cowardly who use alias's and we will just have to do our best to ignore them all together.

Thinking he is guilty and deserving of a suspension does not mean its about hatred.im a Packers fan...poke all you want. Does not change what likely happened with the pats.

I'm not denying there are many who have no bias toward Brady and NE and believe there was some wrong doing; maybe there was. That does not change the rank hypocrisy being displayed by so many of the haters who's main problem with the Brady is the obscene amount of success he and NE have had over the last 14 years.

Here is that "poke" you asked for.

Aaron Rodgers likes his footballs overinflated

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/01/20/aaron-rodgers-likes-his-footballs-overinflated/

“‘I like to push the limit to how much air we can put in the football, even go over what they allow you to do and see if the officials take air out of it,'” Simms said Rodgers told them before the game.

.....

On his weekly radio show with ESPN Milwaukee, Rodgers confirmed that he prefers the balls to be overinflated, and that he doesn’t think there should be a maximum air pressure.

Like fish in a barrel.........

Like fish in a barrel.

This has been discussed before...what Rodgers does is "before" any inspection. If they catch it...great...he does nothing.

What the Patriots are accused of...and having been found more likely than not to be guilty of is tampering with balls after inspection.

Rodgers actions...not really against league rules.

Patriots...against league rules.

Too easy

Hahahaaaa

Sooo, he knowingly admits to over inflating (above what the rules specify,,,ie cheating) the balls and your position is if the league\refs don't catch him then its not cheating? He knew for a fact there where times he was playing with over inflated (ie illegal) balls, but because the refs missed it, it wasn't cheating. Seriously? Um ok...............

 

[Chicago Hooligan]

In the absence of new information, I'm glad we can fall back on mindless antagonism.

 

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[IvanKaramazov]

If anything can make people change their minds on this issue, it's fresh and novel points like the thing about Aaron Rodgers.

 

[sho nuff]

Per a league source... When pressed on certain facts relating to Bradys potential knowledge or involvement, the answers were regarded by some in the room (i.e., some who arent paid to exonerate Brady) as not entirely credible.

If the source is indeed from the league and credible, he is going to eat those 4 games.

Sooo, worse case, Brady is stuck with a suspension that is 2 games less than the Steelers face of the franchise got for raping a woman?

Yay, wave that towel Steeler fans , love and adore the rapist, but hate Brady because he might have done something that pales in comparison to what your "hero" did.

Oh the rape was no big deal you say? You want to stick to football? Ok, lets talk about what Terry Bradshaw admitted the Steelers illegally did to the footballs back in their steroid fueled, err dynasty days

You don't hate Brady cuz the steelers on their best freaking day can't beat him, no, no, no, no, no; you hate him because you are morally opposed to rapists, um cheaters, um teams with qbs that are rapists and or cheat that aren't the steelers, ya, ya that's the ticket.

Steeler fan stone throwers, salt of the earth I tell ya, salt of the earth; god bless em.........

Do urself and your franchise a favor and stop with the stone throwing

I challenge all the stone throwers to make their team allegiances clear so the more probable than not standard can be applied equally. Or is that somehow unfair? Of course there are a the cowardly who use alias's and we will just have to do our best to ignore them all together.

Thinking he is guilty and deserving of a suspension does not mean its about hatred.im a Packers fan...poke all you want. Does not change what likely happened with the pats.

I'm not denying there are many who have no bias toward Brady and NE and believe there was some wrong doing; maybe there was. That does not change the rank hypocrisy being displayed by so many of the haters who's main problem with the Brady is the obscene amount of success he and NE have had over the last 14 years.

Here is that "poke" you asked for.

Aaron Rodgers likes his footballs overinflated

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/01/20/aaron-rodgers-likes-his-footballs-overinflated/

“‘I like to push the limit to how much air we can put in the football, even go over what they allow you to do and see if the officials take air out of it,'” Simms said Rodgers told them before the game.

.....

On his weekly radio show with ESPN Milwaukee, Rodgers confirmed that he prefers the balls to be overinflated, and that he doesn’t think there should be a maximum air pressure.

Like fish in a barrel.........

Like fish in a barrel.

This has been discussed before...what Rodgers does is "before" any inspection. If they catch it...great...he does nothing.

What the Patriots are accused of...and having been found more likely than not to be guilty of is tampering with balls after inspection.

Rodgers actions...not really against league rules.

Patriots...against league rules.

Too easy

Hahahaaaa

Sooo, he knowingly admits to over inflating (above what the rules specify,,,ie cheating) the balls and your position is if the league\refs don't catch him then its not cheating? He knew for a fact there where times he was playing with over inflated (ie illegal) balls, but because the refs missed it, it wasn't cheating. Seriously? Um ok...............

He knowingly says he may play around with it to see if they catch it (and was probably saying it tongue in cheek anyway...but even if not...not the same as what the pats are accused of).

You trying to equate that to Brady and the Pats is a huge failure in logic.

 

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This is a thread about the Patriots. Wtf did you expect, Pats fans to just ignore it?

At least Moleculo approaches this thread from a slightly technical regard, even though I disagree with some of what he says a lot of what he says is sound logic. What are these guys excuses?

 

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This is a thread about the Patriots. Wtf did you expect, Pats fans to just ignore it?

At least Moleculo approaches this thread from a slightly technical regard, even though I disagree with some of what he says a lot of what he says is sound logic. What are these guys excuses?

Enjoying your blind ignorance?

 

[AngryPatriot]

I like {icon} 's avatar, who might that glorious behind belong to?

I have a feeling Goodell and Wells are not big enough men to admit crucial flaws and drop ALL punishments, for the "integrity of the game". btw- that is Goodells favorite catch phrase and if he hears "Brady" he's programmed to say it. I don't know why he developed this hate for the Pats or Brady/Bellichick/Kraft but it has clouded his judgement.

FREE TOM BRADY!!!!!!!!!

 

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This is a thread about the Patriots. Wtf did you expect, Pats fans to just ignore it?

At least Moleculo approaches this thread from a slightly technical regard, even though I disagree with some of what he says a lot of what he says is sound logic. What are these guys excuses?

Enjoying your blind ignorance?

You wanna unpack this ####show of a post?

 

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This is a thread about the Patriots. Wtf did you expect, Pats fans to just ignore it?

At least Moleculo approaches this thread from a slightly technical regard, even though I disagree with some of what he says a lot of what he says is sound logic. What are these guys excuses?

Enjoying your blind ignorance?

 

[NE_REVIVAL]

Per a league source... When pressed on certain facts relating to Bradys potential knowledge or involvement, the answers were regarded by some in the room (i.e., some who arent paid to exonerate Brady) as not entirely credible.

If the source is indeed from the league and credible, he is going to eat those 4 games.

Sooo, worse case, Brady is stuck with a suspension that is 2 games less than the Steelers face of the franchise got for raping a woman?

Yay, wave that towel Steeler fans , love and adore the rapist, but hate Brady because he might have done something that pales in comparison to what your "hero" did.

Oh the rape was no big deal you say? You want to stick to football? Ok, lets talk about what Terry Bradshaw admitted the Steelers illegally did to the footballs back in their steroid fueled, err dynasty days

You don't hate Brady cuz the steelers on their best freaking day can't beat him, no, no, no, no, no; you hate him because you are morally opposed to rapists, um cheaters, um teams with qbs that are rapists and or cheat that aren't the steelers, ya, ya that's the ticket.

Steeler fan stone throwers, salt of the earth I tell ya, salt of the earth; god bless em.........

Do urself and your franchise a favor and stop with the stone throwing

I challenge all the stone throwers to make their team allegiances clear so the more probable than not standard can be applied equally. Or is that somehow unfair? Of course there are a the cowardly who use alias's and we will just have to do our best to ignore them all together.

Thinking he is guilty and deserving of a suspension does not mean its about hatred.im a Packers fan...poke all you want. Does not change what likely happened with the pats.

I'm not denying there are many who have no bias toward Brady and NE and believe there was some wrong doing; maybe there was. That does not change the rank hypocrisy being displayed by so many of the haters who's main problem with the Brady is the obscene amount of success he and NE have had over the last 14 years.

Here is that "poke" you asked for.

Aaron Rodgers likes his footballs overinflated

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/01/20/aaron-rodgers-likes-his-footballs-overinflated/

“‘I like to push the limit to how much air we can put in the football, even go over what they allow you to do and see if the officials take air out of it,'” Simms said Rodgers told them before the game.

.....

On his weekly radio show with ESPN Milwaukee, Rodgers confirmed that he prefers the balls to be overinflated, and that he doesn’t think there should be a maximum air pressure.

Like fish in a barrel.........

Like fish in a barrel.

This has been discussed before...what Rodgers does is "before" any inspection. If they catch it...great...he does nothing.

What the Patriots are accused of...and having been found more likely than not to be guilty of is tampering with balls after inspection.

Rodgers actions...not really against league rules.

Patriots...against league rules.

Too easy

Hahahaaaa

Sooo, he knowingly admits to over inflating (above what the rules specify,,,ie cheating) the balls and your position is if the league\refs don't catch him then its not cheating? He knew for a fact there where times he was playing with over inflated (ie illegal) balls, but because the refs missed it, it wasn't cheating. Seriously? Um ok...............

He knowingly says he may play around with it to see if they catch it (and was probably saying it tongue in cheek anyway...but even if not...not the same as what the pats are accused of).

You trying to equate that to Brady and the Pats is a huge failure in logic.

FTR, I don't think there was anything tongue and cheek about it, but I do agree with you that what NE & Brady are accused of is obviously worse. Both are cheating, but tampering with the balls after the fact is obviously worse without a doubt.

 

[Faust]

Why Tom Brady will play for Patriots in 2015 NFL season opener

 

[Godsbrother]

Why Tom Brady will play for Patriots in 2015 NFL season opener

I've been saying all along he is going to play the opener. No way on earth the NFL wants the reigning SB winning QB sitting out of the season opener.

 

[Ditkaless Wonders]

Per a league source... When pressed on certain facts relating to Bradys potential knowledge or involvement, the answers were regarded by some in the room (i.e., some who arent paid to exonerate Brady) as not entirely credible.

If the source is indeed from the league and credible, he is going to eat those 4 games.

Sooo, worse case, Brady is stuck with a suspension that is 2 games less than the Steelers face of the franchise got for raping a woman?

Yay, wave that towel Steeler fans , love and adore the rapist, but hate Brady because he might have done something that pales in comparison to what your "hero" did.

Oh the rape was no big deal you say? You want to stick to football? Ok, lets talk about what Terry Bradshaw admitted the Steelers illegally did to the footballs back in their steroid fueled, err dynasty days

You don't hate Brady cuz the steelers on their best freaking day can't beat him, no, no, no, no, no; you hate him because you are morally opposed to rapists, um cheaters, um teams with qbs that are rapists and or cheat that aren't the steelers, ya, ya that's the ticket.

Steeler fan stone throwers, salt of the earth I tell ya, salt of the earth; god bless em.........

Do urself and your franchise a favor and stop with the stone throwing

I challenge all the stone throwers to make their team allegiances clear so the more probable than not standard can be applied equally. Or is that somehow unfair? Of course there are a the cowardly who use alias's and we will just have to do our best to ignore them all together.

Thinking he is guilty and deserving of a suspension does not mean its about hatred.im a Packers fan...poke all you want. Does not change what likely happened with the pats.

I'm not denying there are many who have no bias toward Brady and NE and believe there was some wrong doing; maybe there was. That does not change the rank hypocrisy being displayed by so many of the haters who's main problem with the Brady is the obscene amount of success he and NE have had over the last 14 years.

Here is that "poke" you asked for.

Aaron Rodgers likes his footballs overinflated

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/01/20/aaron-rodgers-likes-his-footballs-overinflated/

“‘I like to push the limit to how much air we can put in the football, even go over what they allow you to do and see if the officials take air out of it,'” Simms said Rodgers told them before the game.

.....

On his weekly radio show with ESPN Milwaukee, Rodgers confirmed that he prefers the balls to be overinflated, and that he doesn’t think there should be a maximum air pressure.

Like fish in a barrel.........

Like fish in a barrel.

This has been discussed before...what Rodgers does is "before" any inspection. If they catch it...great...he does nothing.

What the Patriots are accused of...and having been found more likely than not to be guilty of is tampering with balls after inspection.

Rodgers actions...not really against league rules.

Patriots...against league rules.

Too easy

Hahahaaaa

Sooo, he knowingly admits to over inflating (above what the rules specify,,,ie cheating) the balls and your position is if the league\refs don't catch him then its not cheating? He knew for a fact there where times he was playing with over inflated (ie illegal) balls, but because the refs missed it, it wasn't cheating. Seriously? Um ok...............

He knowingly says he may play around with it to see if they catch it (and was probably saying it tongue in cheek anyway...but even if not...not the same as what the pats are accused of).

You trying to equate that to Brady and the Pats is a huge failure in logic.

FTR, I don't think there was anything tongue and cheek about it, but I do agree with you that what NE & Brady are accused of is obviously worse. Both are cheating, but tampering with the balls after the fact is obviously worse without a doubt.

I'm going to disagree with you. In my reading of the rule teams have no obligation to turn the balls over to the Ref at any particular PSI. Their obligation is simply to turn the balls over for the Refs to get them to the proper PSl, and then, unstated in the rule, but clearly part and parcel of the rule, to not then change what the Refs have inflated the balls to.

Submitting the balls at 10 PSI or 20 PSI is fine. The Refs then have to make them correct, and the team then has to play with the balls the Refs have adjusted.

the cheating only arises if one changes the PSI established or verified by the Refs. There has never been an allegation that Rodgers does this. There is an allegation that Brady was aware his guys do this, and that he rewarded them for doing so. That allegation is based on some credible science, and upon some credible circumstantial evidence from text communications. Whether you find the evidence sufficiently credible to arrive at a conclusion of culpability on the part of Brady to the standard of it being more probable than not that he had knowledge of the practice and rewarded the practice I leave to your fair-minded rationality, but to try to drag Rodgers into this to deflect that analysis away from Brady exhibits a lack of understanding of the issues.

 

[SeniorVBDStudent]

Unless the contention is thst the refs knowingly allowed rodgers' overinflated balls to pass inspection or that the league tolerated multiple uncalibrated gauges, i.e. selective and non uniform enforcement of the rules which continues to be a credible hypothesis based on statements made by more qbs than just rodgers. Or is it your contention that inspection has always been fullproof and properly documented? Clearly the lack of institutional control on the leaguez part viz the rodgers anecdote and others has legal merit.

 

[NE_REVIVAL]

Per a league source... When pressed on certain facts relating to Bradys potential knowledge or involvement, the answers were regarded by some in the room (i.e., some who arent paid to exonerate Brady) as not entirely credible.

If the source is indeed from the league and credible, he is going to eat those 4 games.

Sooo, worse case, Brady is stuck with a suspension that is 2 games less than the Steelers face of the franchise got for raping a woman?

Yay, wave that towel Steeler fans , love and adore the rapist, but hate Brady because he might have done something that pales in comparison to what your "hero" did.

Oh the rape was no big deal you say? You want to stick to football? Ok, lets talk about what Terry Bradshaw admitted the Steelers illegally did to the footballs back in their steroid fueled, err dynasty days

You don't hate Brady cuz the steelers on their best freaking day can't beat him, no, no, no, no, no; you hate him because you are morally opposed to rapists, um cheaters, um teams with qbs that are rapists and or cheat that aren't the steelers, ya, ya that's the ticket.

Steeler fan stone throwers, salt of the earth I tell ya, salt of the earth; god bless em.........

Do urself and your franchise a favor and stop with the stone throwing

I challenge all the stone throwers to make their team allegiances clear so the more probable than not standard can be applied equally. Or is that somehow unfair? Of course there are a the cowardly who use alias's and we will just have to do our best to ignore them all together.

Thinking he is guilty and deserving of a suspension does not mean its about hatred.im a Packers fan...poke all you want. Does not change what likely happened with the pats.

I'm not denying there are many who have no bias toward Brady and NE and believe there was some wrong doing; maybe there was. That does not change the rank hypocrisy being displayed by so many of the haters who's main problem with the Brady is the obscene amount of success he and NE have had over the last 14 years.

Here is that "poke" you asked for.

Aaron Rodgers likes his footballs overinflated

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/01/20/aaron-rodgers-likes-his-footballs-overinflated/

“‘I like to push the limit to how much air we can put in the football, even go over what they allow you to do and see if the officials take air out of it,'” Simms said Rodgers told them before the game.

.....

On his weekly radio show with ESPN Milwaukee, Rodgers confirmed that he prefers the balls to be overinflated, and that he doesn’t think there should be a maximum air pressure.

Like fish in a barrel.........

Like fish in a barrel.

This has been discussed before...what Rodgers does is "before" any inspection. If they catch it...great...he does nothing.

What the Patriots are accused of...and having been found more likely than not to be guilty of is tampering with balls after inspection.

Rodgers actions...not really against league rules.

Patriots...against league rules.

Too easy

Hahahaaaa

Sooo, he knowingly admits to over inflating (above what the rules specify,,,ie cheating) the balls and your position is if the league\refs don't catch him then its not cheating? He knew for a fact there where times he was playing with over inflated (ie illegal) balls, but because the refs missed it, it wasn't cheating. Seriously? Um ok...............

He knowingly says he may play around with it to see if they catch it (and was probably saying it tongue in cheek anyway...but even if not...not the same as what the pats are accused of).

You trying to equate that to Brady and the Pats is a huge failure in logic.

FTR, I don't think there was anything tongue and cheek about it, but I do agree with you that what NE & Brady are accused of is obviously worse. Both are cheating, but tampering with the balls after the fact is obviously worse without a doubt.

I'm going to disagree with you. In my reading of the rule teams have no obligation to turn the balls over to the Ref at any particular PSI. Their obligation is simply to turn the balls over for the Refs to get them to the proper PSl, and then, unstated in the rule, but clearly part and parcel of the rule, to not then change what the Refs have inflated the balls to.

Submitting the balls at 10 PSI or 20 PSI is fine. The Refs then have to make them correct, and the team then has to play with the balls the Refs have adjusted.

the cheating only arises if one changes the PSI established or verified by the Refs. There has never been an allegation that Rodgers does this. There is an allegation that Brady was aware his guys do this, and that he rewarded them for doing so. That allegation is based on some credible science, and upon some credible circumstantial evidence from text communications. Whether you find the evidence sufficiently credible to arrive at a conclusion of culpability on the part of Brady to the standard of it being more probable than not that he had knowledge of the practice and rewarded the practice I leave to your fair-minded rationality, but to try to drag Rodgers into this to deflect that analysis away from Brady exhibits a lack of understanding of the issues.

Hey DW, we can agree to disagree on this but the rule clearly states the ball should be between 12.5 – 13.5 PSI. The entire crux of your argument boils down to “if the ref doesn’t catch it then it’s not cheating”. So by that reasoning it should be ok to fill the ball with helium or some other gas and as long as the ref approves then it’s not cheating. How about a football that was made out of unapproved material, or inserting some sort of electronic device? Do you really feel its not cheating if the ref misses it?

As I’ve said, it is certainly fair to argue the difference in degree\level of cheating, but what Brady is accused of and what Rodgers freely admitted to doing are both cheating; the only difference being the level.

 

[Ditkaless Wonders]

Per a league source... When pressed on certain facts relating to Bradys potential knowledge or involvement, the answers were regarded by some in the room (i.e., some who arent paid to exonerate Brady) as not entirely credible.

If the source is indeed from the league and credible, he is going to eat those 4 games.

Sooo, worse case, Brady is stuck with a suspension that is 2 games less than the Steelers face of the franchise got for raping a woman?

Yay, wave that towel Steeler fans , love and adore the rapist, but hate Brady because he might have done something that pales in comparison to what your "hero" did.

Oh the rape was no big deal you say? You want to stick to football? Ok, lets talk about what Terry Bradshaw admitted the Steelers illegally did to the footballs back in their steroid fueled, err dynasty days

You don't hate Brady cuz the steelers on their best freaking day can't beat him, no, no, no, no, no; you hate him because you are morally opposed to rapists, um cheaters, um teams with qbs that are rapists and or cheat that aren't the steelers, ya, ya that's the ticket.

Steeler fan stone throwers, salt of the earth I tell ya, salt of the earth; god bless em.........

Do urself and your franchise a favor and stop with the stone throwing

I challenge all the stone throwers to make their team allegiances clear so the more probable than not standard can be applied equally. Or is that somehow unfair? Of course there are a the cowardly who use alias's and we will just have to do our best to ignore them all together.

Thinking he is guilty and deserving of a suspension does not mean its about hatred.im a Packers fan...poke all you want. Does not change what likely happened with the pats.

I'm not denying there are many who have no bias toward Brady and NE and believe there was some wrong doing; maybe there was. That does not change the rank hypocrisy being displayed by so many of the haters who's main problem with the Brady is the obscene amount of success he and NE have had over the last 14 years.

Here is that "poke" you asked for.

Aaron Rodgers likes his footballs overinflated

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/01/20/aaron-rodgers-likes-his-footballs-overinflated/

“‘I like to push the limit to how much air we can put in the football, even go over what they allow you to do and see if the officials take air out of it,'” Simms said Rodgers told them before the game.

.....

On his weekly radio show with ESPN Milwaukee, Rodgers confirmed that he prefers the balls to be overinflated, and that he doesn’t think there should be a maximum air pressure.

Like fish in a barrel.........

Like fish in a barrel.

This has been discussed before...what Rodgers does is "before" any inspection. If they catch it...great...he does nothing.

What the Patriots are accused of...and having been found more likely than not to be guilty of is tampering with balls after inspection.

Rodgers actions...not really against league rules.

Patriots...against league rules.

Too easy

HahahaaaaSooo, he knowingly admits to over inflating (above what the rules specify,,,ie cheating) the balls and your position is if the league\refs don't catch him then its not cheating? He knew for a fact there where times he was playing with over inflated (ie illegal) balls, but because the refs missed it, it wasn't cheating. Seriously? Um ok...............

He knowingly says he may play around with it to see if they catch it (and was probably saying it tongue in cheek anyway...but even if not...not the same as what the pats are accused of).

You trying to equate that to Brady and the Pats is a huge failure in logic.

FTR, I don't think there was anything tongue and cheek about it, but I do agree with you that what NE & Brady are accused of is obviously worse. Both are cheating, but tampering with the balls after the fact is obviously worse without a doubt.

I'm going to disagree with you. In my reading of the rule teams have no obligation to turn the balls over to the Ref at any particular PSI. Their obligation is simply to turn the balls over for the Refs to get them to the proper PSl, and then, unstated in the rule, but clearly part and parcel of the rule, to not then change what the Refs have inflated the balls to.Submitting the balls at 10 PSI or 20 PSI is fine. The Refs then have to make them correct, and the team then has to play with the balls the Refs have adjusted.

the cheating only arises if one changes the PSI established or verified by the Refs. There has never been an allegation that Rodgers does this. There is an allegation that Brady was aware his guys do this, and that he rewarded them for doing so. That allegation is based on some credible science, and upon some credible circumstantial evidence from text communications. Whether you find the evidence sufficiently credible to arrive at a conclusion of culpability on the part of Brady to the standard of it being more probable than not that he had knowledge of the practice and rewarded the practice I leave to your fair-minded rationality, but to try to drag Rodgers into this to deflect that analysis away from Brady exhibits a lack of understanding of the issues.

Hey DW, we can agree to disagree on this but the rule clearly states the ball should be between 12.5 – 13.5 PSI. The entire crux of your argument boils down to “if the ref doesn’t catch it then it’s not cheating”. So by that reasoning it should be ok to fill the ball with helium or some other gas and as long as the ref approves then it’s not cheating. How about a football that was made out of unapproved material, or inserting some sort of electronic device? Do you really feel its not cheating if the ref misses it?

As I’ve said, it is certainly fair to argue the difference in degree\level of cheating, but what Brady is accused of and what Rodgers freely admitted to doing are both cheating; the only difference being the level.

I am going to be very comfortable agreeing to disagree.

 

[The General]

It's not the same. If you believe that team Brady had a system for letting air out after the refs did their thing.

If it were Brady would admit to it and not go through the whole act they have going on.

 

[Warrior]

You mean the entitled arrogance of having been in the 6 of the last 15 Super Bowls, having won 4, dominating the AFC east? Well, it is entitled or deserved or whatever you want to call it. It has been awesome to tell you the truth, nothing like winning the SB!!

Pats fans had nothing to do with the Pats team making/winning those SBs. Therefore, the arrogance is in no way 'entitled' unless Tom Brady is posting in this thread.

 

[NE_REVIVAL]

It's not the same. If you believe that team Brady had a system for letting air out after the refs did their thing.

If it were Brady would admit to it and not go through the whole act they have going on.

Not certain you were replying to my post, but ftr I have included the disclaimer that Rodgers admitted cheating and Bradys alleged cheating are not the same level\degree; only that they are both clearly cheating.

 

[Old Smiley]

You mean the entitled arrogance of having been in the 6 of the last 15 Super Bowls, having won 4, dominating the AFC east? Well, it is entitled or deserved or whatever you want to call it. It has been awesome to tell you the truth, nothing like winning the SB!!

Pats fans had nothing to do with the Pats team making/winning those SBs. Therefore, the arrogance is in no way 'entitled' unless Tom Brady is posting in this thread.

Dude, I wore my special socks, okay?

 

[DropKick]

Per a league source... When pressed on certain facts relating to Bradys potential knowledge or involvement, the answers were regarded by some in the room (i.e., some who arent paid to exonerate Brady) as not entirely credible.

If the source is indeed from the league and credible, he is going to eat those 4 games.

Sooo, worse case, Brady is stuck with a suspension that is 2 games less than the Steelers face of the franchise got for raping a woman?

Yay, wave that towel Steeler fans , love and adore the rapist, but hate Brady because he might have done something that pales in comparison to what your "hero" did.

Oh the rape was no big deal you say? You want to stick to football? Ok, lets talk about what Terry Bradshaw admitted the Steelers illegally did to the footballs back in their steroid fueled, err dynasty days

You don't hate Brady cuz the steelers on their best freaking day can't beat him, no, no, no, no, no; you hate him because you are morally opposed to rapists, um cheaters, um teams with qbs that are rapists and or cheat that aren't the steelers, ya, ya that's the ticket.

Steeler fan stone throwers, salt of the earth I tell ya, salt of the earth; god bless em.........

Do urself and your franchise a favor and stop with the stone throwing

I challenge all the stone throwers to make their team allegiances clear so the more probable than not standard can be applied equally. Or is that somehow unfair? Of course there are a the cowardly who use alias's and we will just have to do our best to ignore them all together.

Thinking he is guilty and deserving of a suspension does not mean its about hatred.im a Packers fan...poke all you want. Does not change what likely happened with the pats.

I'm not denying there are many who have no bias toward Brady and NE and believe there was some wrong doing; maybe there was. That does not change the rank hypocrisy being displayed by so many of the haters who's main problem with the Brady is the obscene amount of success he and NE have had over the last 14 years.

Here is that "poke" you asked for.

Aaron Rodgers likes his footballs overinflated

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/01/20/aaron-rodgers-likes-his-footballs-overinflated/

“‘I like to push the limit to how much air we can put in the football, even go over what they allow you to do and see if the officials take air out of it,'” Simms said Rodgers told them before the game.

.....

On his weekly radio show with ESPN Milwaukee, Rodgers confirmed that he prefers the balls to be overinflated, and that he doesn’t think there should be a maximum air pressure.

Like fish in a barrel.........

Like fish in a barrel.

This has been discussed before...what Rodgers does is "before" any inspection. If they catch it...great...he does nothing.

What the Patriots are accused of...and having been found more likely than not to be guilty of is tampering with balls after inspection.

Rodgers actions...not really against league rules.

Patriots...against league rules.

Too easy

Hahahaaaa

Sooo, he knowingly admits to over inflating (above what the rules specify,,,ie cheating) the balls and your position is if the league\refs don't catch him then its not cheating? He knew for a fact there where times he was playing with over inflated (ie illegal) balls, but because the refs missed it, it wasn't cheating. Seriously? Um ok...............

He knowingly says he may play around with it to see if they catch it (and was probably saying it tongue in cheek anyway...but even if not...not the same as what the pats are accused of).

You trying to equate that to Brady and the Pats is a huge failure in logic.

FTR, I don't think there was anything tongue and cheek about it, but I do agree with you that what NE & Brady are accused of is obviously worse. Both are cheating, but tampering with the balls after the fact is obviously worse without a doubt.

Rodgers over-inflating the ball with the expectation that the refs have a good chance of missing it is, in fact, on the same level as Brady. You're splitting hairs with this distinction.

I think the bigger point you're missing is how well do the officials test and manage the footballs? I've thought all along this probably varies greatly across officials and maybe contributed to the problem.

 

[sho nuff]

Changing things after inspection is the same as Rodgers claiming he pumps them up more to see if the refs will catch it?

Oof...

 

[MaxThreshold]

Per a league source... When pressed on certain facts relating to Bradys potential knowledge or involvement, the answers were regarded by some in the room (i.e., some who arent paid to exonerate Brady) as not entirely credible.

If the source is indeed from the league and credible, he is going to eat those 4 games.

Sooo, worse case, Brady is stuck with a suspension that is 2 games less than the Steelers face of the franchise got for raping a woman?

Yay, wave that towel Steeler fans , love and adore the rapist, but hate Brady because he might have done something that pales in comparison to what your "hero" did.

Oh the rape was no big deal you say? You want to stick to football? Ok, lets talk about what Terry Bradshaw admitted the Steelers illegally did to the footballs back in their steroid fueled, err dynasty days

You don't hate Brady cuz the steelers on their best freaking day can't beat him, no, no, no, no, no; you hate him because you are morally opposed to rapists, um cheaters, um teams with qbs that are rapists and or cheat that aren't the steelers, ya, ya that's the ticket.

Steeler fan stone throwers, salt of the earth I tell ya, salt of the earth; god bless em.........

Do urself and your franchise a favor and stop with the stone throwing

I challenge all the stone throwers to make their team allegiances clear so the more probable than not standard can be applied equally. Or is that somehow unfair? Of course there are a the cowardly who use alias's and we will just have to do our best to ignore them all together.

Thinking he is guilty and deserving of a suspension does not mean its about hatred.im a Packers fan...poke all you want. Does not change what likely happened with the pats.

I'm not denying there are many who have no bias toward Brady and NE and believe there was some wrong doing; maybe there was. That does not change the rank hypocrisy being displayed by so many of the haters who's main problem with the Brady is the obscene amount of success he and NE have had over the last 14 years.

Here is that "poke" you asked for.

Aaron Rodgers likes his footballs overinflated

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/01/20/aaron-rodgers-likes-his-footballs-overinflated/

“‘I like to push the limit to how much air we can put in the football, even go over what they allow you to do and see if the officials take air out of it,'” Simms said Rodgers told them before the game.

.....

On his weekly radio show with ESPN Milwaukee, Rodgers confirmed that he prefers the balls to be overinflated, and that he doesn’t think there should be a maximum air pressure.

Like fish in a barrel.........

Like fish in a barrel.

This has been discussed before...what Rodgers does is "before" any inspection. If they catch it...great...he does nothing.

What the Patriots are accused of...and having been found more likely than not to be guilty of is tampering with balls after inspection.

Rodgers actions...not really against league rules.

Patriots...against league rules.

Too easy

Hahahaaaa

Sooo, he knowingly admits to over inflating (above what the rules specify,,,ie cheating) the balls and your position is if the league\refs don't catch him then its not cheating? He knew for a fact there where times he was playing with over inflated (ie illegal) balls, but because the refs missed it, it wasn't cheating. Seriously? Um ok...............

He knowingly says he may play around with it to see if they catch it (and was probably saying it tongue in cheek anyway...but even if not...not the same as what the pats are accused of).

You trying to equate that to Brady and the Pats is a huge failure in logic.

FTR, I don't think there was anything tongue and cheek about it, but I do agree with you that what NE & Brady are accused of is obviously worse. Both are cheating, but tampering with the balls after the fact is obviously worse without a doubt.

Rodgers over-inflating the ball with the expectation that the refs have a good chance of missing it is, in fact, on the same level as Brady. You're splitting hairs with this distinction.

I think the bigger point you're missing is how well do the officials test and manage the footballs? I've thought all along this probably varies greatly across officials and maybe contributed to the problem.

What? Are you on crack?

 

[amnesiac]

Changing things after inspection is the same as Rodgers claiming he pumps them up more to see if the refs will catch it?

Oof...

different circumstances to be sure. but if the ref misses it, isn't the end result the same?

they are both playing with balls outside the specs, no?

 

[Stealthycat]

Colts - proven deflators , broke the rules, no penalty, no investigation

Packers - admitted deflators , broke the rules, no penalty, no penalty, no investigation

Patriots - proven deflators, broke the rules - fined draft picks and QB suspended ( well, more probable than not anway )

makes perfect sense doesn't it ?

 

[Bayhawks]

Patriots - proven deflators, broke the rules - fined draft picks and QB suspended ( well, more probable than not anway )

makes perfect sense doesn't it ?

Well, when you put it that way, yes, it does.

 

[DropKick]

Per a league source... When pressed on certain facts relating to Bradys potential knowledge or involvement, the answers were regarded by some in the room (i.e., some who arent paid to exonerate Brady) as not entirely credible.

If the source is indeed from the league and credible, he is going to eat those 4 games.

Sooo, worse case, Brady is stuck with a suspension that is 2 games less than the Steelers face of the franchise got for raping a woman?

Yay, wave that towel Steeler fans , love and adore the rapist, but hate Brady because he might have done something that pales in comparison to what your "hero" did.

Oh the rape was no big deal you say? You want to stick to football? Ok, lets talk about what Terry Bradshaw admitted the Steelers illegally did to the footballs back in their steroid fueled, err dynasty days

You don't hate Brady cuz the steelers on their best freaking day can't beat him, no, no, no, no, no; you hate him because you are morally opposed to rapists, um cheaters, um teams with qbs that are rapists and or cheat that aren't the steelers, ya, ya that's the ticket.

Steeler fan stone throwers, salt of the earth I tell ya, salt of the earth; god bless em.........

Do urself and your franchise a favor and stop with the stone throwing

I challenge all the stone throwers to make their team allegiances clear so the more probable than not standard can be applied equally. Or is that somehow unfair? Of course there are a the cowardly who use alias's and we will just have to do our best to ignore them all together.

Thinking he is guilty and deserving of a suspension does not mean its about hatred.im a Packers fan...poke all you want. Does not change what likely happened with the pats.

I'm not denying there are many who have no bias toward Brady and NE and believe there was some wrong doing; maybe there was. That does not change the rank hypocrisy being displayed by so many of the haters who's main problem with the Brady is the obscene amount of success he and NE have had over the last 14 years.

Here is that "poke" you asked for.

Aaron Rodgers likes his footballs overinflated

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/01/20/aaron-rodgers-likes-his-footballs-overinflated/

“‘I like to push the limit to how much air we can put in the football, even go over what they allow you to do and see if the officials take air out of it,'” Simms said Rodgers told them before the game.

.....

On his weekly radio show with ESPN Milwaukee, Rodgers confirmed that he prefers the balls to be overinflated, and that he doesn’t think there should be a maximum air pressure.

Like fish in a barrel.........

Like fish in a barrel.

This has been discussed before...what Rodgers does is "before" any inspection. If they catch it...great...he does nothing.

What the Patriots are accused of...and having been found more likely than not to be guilty of is tampering with balls after inspection.

Rodgers actions...not really against league rules.

Patriots...against league rules.

Too easy

Hahahaaaa

Sooo, he knowingly admits to over inflating (above what the rules specify,,,ie cheating) the balls and your position is if the league\refs don't catch him then its not cheating? He knew for a fact there where times he was playing with over inflated (ie illegal) balls, but because the refs missed it, it wasn't cheating. Seriously? Um ok...............

He knowingly says he may play around with it to see if they catch it (and was probably saying it tongue in cheek anyway...but even if not...not the same as what the pats are accused of).

You trying to equate that to Brady and the Pats is a huge failure in logic.

FTR, I don't think there was anything tongue and cheek about it, but I do agree with you that what NE & Brady are accused of is obviously worse. Both are cheating, but tampering with the balls after the fact is obviously worse without a doubt.

Rodgers over-inflating the ball with the expectation that the refs have a good chance of missing it is, in fact, on the same level as Brady. You're splitting hairs with this distinction.

I think the bigger point you're missing is how well do the officials test and manage the footballs? I've thought all along this probably varies greatly across officials and maybe contributed to the problem.

What? Are you on crack?

Why, because I'm objective? If you notice there are some officials more/less diligent in inspecting the balls and you take advantage of that to get a ball to your specifications but outside the league's accepted range into the game, you've done the same thing. Again, you're just splitting hairs.

I'm not hammering Brady or Rodgers. My point (and I'm not surprised you missed it) is that no one is looking at the refs role in this...

 

[BigSteelThrill]

Thinking he is guilty and deserving of a suspension does not mean its about hatred.im a Packers fan...poke all you want. Does not change what likely happened with the pats.
I'm not denying there are many who have no bias toward Brady and NE and believe there was some wrong doing; maybe there was. That does not change the rank hypocrisy being displayed by so many of the haters who's main problem with the Brady is the obscene amount of success he and NE have had over the last 14 years.

Here is that "poke" you asked for.

Aaron Rodgers likes his footballs overinflated

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/01/20/aaron-rodgers-likes-his-footballs-overinflated/

“‘I like to push the limit to how much air we can put in the football, even go over what they allow you to do and see if the officials take air out of it,'” Simms said Rodgers told them before the game.

.....

On his weekly radio show with ESPN Milwaukee, Rodgers confirmed that he prefers the balls to be overinflated, and that he doesn’t think there should be a maximum air pressure.

Like fish in a barrel.........

Like fish in a barrel.

This has been discussed before...what Rodgers does is "before" any inspection. If they catch it...great...he does nothing.

What the Patriots are accused of...and having been found more likely than not to be guilty of is tampering with balls after inspection.

Rodgers actions...not really against league rules.

Patriots...against league rules.

Too easy

Hahahaaaa

Sooo, he knowingly admits to over inflating (above what the rules specify,,,ie cheating) the balls and your position is if the league\refs don't catch him then its not cheating? He knew for a fact there where times he was playing with over inflated (ie illegal) balls, but because the refs missed it, it wasn't cheating. Seriously? Um ok...............

He knowingly says he may play around with it to see if they catch it (and was probably saying it tongue in cheek anyway...but even if not...not the same as what the pats are accused of).

You trying to equate that to Brady and the Pats is a huge failure in logic.

FTR, I don't think there was anything tongue and cheek about it, but I do agree with you that what NE & Brady are accused of is obviously worse. Both are cheating, but tampering with the balls after the fact is obviously worse without a doubt.

Rodgers over-inflating the ball with the expectation that the refs have a good chance of missing it is, in fact, on the same level as Brady. You're splitting hairs with this distinction.

I think the bigger point you're missing is how well do the officials test and manage the footballs? I've thought all along this probably varies greatly across officials and maybe contributed to the problem.

What? Are you on crack?

Why, because I'm objective? If you notice there are some officials more/less diligent in inspecting the balls and you take advantage of that to get a ball to your specifications but outside the league's accepted range into the game, you've done the same thing. Again, you're just splitting hairs.

I'm not hammering Brady or Rodgers. My point (and I'm not surprised you missed it) is that no one is looking at the refs role in this...

That's on the league. You turn it in within specs and then you dont fuqqin touch it.

 

[Devine Intervention]

This Brady and Rodgers thing is stupid. It's not against the rules to submit footballs for inspection above or below those limits.

However. It is illegal to change those levels after the levels have been decided on by the officials.

Even if by some chance Rodgers gets through with a ball that's 16 psi and realizes that's too high half way through and wants to lower it mid game to the legal 13. That is illegal to do that.

So notice, one is illegal. The other one isn't.

 

[[icon]]

Anyone know if there is any sort of precedence for this? You know, like another team submitting over-inflated balls or something?

I think something like that would inject some refreshing new discourse into this thread!

 

[DropKick]

This Brady and Rodgers thing is stupid. It's not against the rules to submit footballs for inspection above or below those limits.

However. It is illegal to change those levels after the levels have been decided on by the officials.

Even if by some chance Rodgers gets through with a ball that's 16 psi and realizes that's too high half way through and wants to lower it mid game to the legal 13. That is illegal to do that.

So notice, one is illegal. The other one isn't.

We have evidence that, on the very same day as "deflategate", Aaron Rodgers was playing with over-inflated footballs. With victory seemingly in hand over the Seattle Seahawks, Packer's coach Mike McCarthy, who learned of an NFL sting operation based on claims from the Dallas Cowboys (miffed from the Dez Bryant no-catch call), took the air out of the balls in the 4th quarter to protect Rodgers. Everyone in the NFL knew that Rodgers had big balls, but with suddenly normal sized balls, the Pack faltered and, with an improbable victory, Seattle advanced to their second consecutive Super Bowl.

Obviously, this is tongue in cheek. Many of you need to lighten up a little.

The rules only govern the pressure of the football - that is between 12.5 and 13.5 PSI. There is no explicit wording about tampering with the ball after inspection, although common sense tells it's wrong (why would there be such wording?)

Tampering with the ball post inspection is certainly more brazen. And, in Rodger's case, you could also blame negligence on the part of game officials. However, they are both different means to the same ends. They each result in a game ball outside the allowable air pressure. Technically, they are both illegal.

I'm not making a big deal about it. I respect both QBs. But, I would bet that if the deflation issue never happened and it were Brady talking about "pushing the limits" and getting an overinflated ball into the game, many people would reach different conclusions. Try to answer that one objectively.

Rodgers was pretty candid in his interview. In fact, the honesty was refreshing. He felt that an over-inflated ball offered no competitive advantage and that the rules shouldn't have an upper limit on PSI. Essentially, he like the ball a certain way; sees no advantage gained; and justifies (in his mind) having a ball outside the allowable range. Again, I'm not criticizing Rodgers here. I'm pointing out that he thought so little of the issue, he could talk openly about it.

The elephant in the room is still the referees. The Rodgers' interview suggests they sometimes neglect to even test the balls with a guage. Texts from the Wells Report mention a game played with 16 PSI balls... There might be too much prima donna is some of today's QBs but I would bet that type of inconsistency would drive them nuts (not a balls reference).

 

[cstu]

Anyone know if there is any sort of precedence for this? You know, like another team submitting over-inflated balls or something?

I think something like that would inject some refreshing new discourse into this thread!

It doesn't matter what balls are submitted to the officials - it's their job to make sure they are properly inflated before they go on the field.

 

[Stealthycat]

golden question

why was 3 of 4 Colts balls deflated? (they only tested 4 ... its safe to assume 8 of 12 Colts balls would have been deflated)

use the same measuring stick as you use against the Patriots - what's your conlusion?

Colts deflated the balls during the game, Luck knew about it - just like the Patriots

Right ?

If you come to a DIFFERENT conclusion, then you are NOT using the same measuring stick - meaning withch hunt

 

[Freelove]

what's your conlusion?

That the Pats impeded an investigation.

 

[Bayhawks]

golden question

why was 3 of 4 Colts balls deflated? (they only tested 4 ... its safe to assume 8 of 12 Colts balls would have been deflated)

use the same measuring stick as you use against the Patriots - what's your conlusion?

Colts deflated the balls during the game, Luck knew about it - just like the Patriots

Right ?

If you come to a DIFFERENT conclusion, then you are NOT using the same measuring stick - meaning withch hunt

Or, you could, you know, consider all the facts, not just the cherry-picked ones that you are pretending make your point.

Like, since there is no record of Colts' employees texting each other that "Andy" wanted his footballs deflated, nor one of these employees referring to himself as the deflator, nor video of one of these employees taking the footballs, AFTER INSPECTION, into an empty room, nor the Colts refusing to allow the NFL investigator to question this employee again (after this information comes to their attention), nor instances of "Andy" lying to NFL investigators("I don't know who those guys are" <that I signed memorabilia for & exchanged texts with&gt, nor evidence of Andy refusing to cooperate by sharing copies of his text records.

So, if you ignore all those other significant pieces of information, you'd be Stealthycat (or a 12-year old who wears #12 under-oos).

If, however, you give that information the attention it deserves, you'd realize that NE decided not to cooperate with the NFL, and are being punished for it (although too severely, IMO).

 

[sho nuff]

Still stuck on that 3/4 colts thing hoping someone will really answer.

 

[ratbast]

If science is used to explain Colts deflation, science should explain at least some of Pats deflation. The gauges and their margin of error can reasonably be responsible for another fraction of deflation.

This leaves a minuscule fraction that is pretty small when separated from what could have been reasonably possible.

Then that starts a huge investigation. Ok and perhaps it shows the Pats have pushed the envelope and maybe even after a ref measured them, but it really doesn't Pin Point the Indy game. The balls were only a fraction under what is reasonably expected.

Most of the perception is from factors beyond the actual infraction. Admittedly I am a Pats fan, but that isnt going to change. In some ways I wish this was another team so I could look at it clean. It is an interesting fiasco.

 

[DropKick]

golden question

why was 3 of 4 Colts balls deflated? (they only tested 4 ... its safe to assume 8 of 12 Colts balls would have been deflated)

use the same measuring stick as you use against the Patriots - what's your conlusion?

Colts deflated the balls during the game, Luck knew about it - just like the Patriots

Right ?

If you come to a DIFFERENT conclusion, then you are NOT using the same measuring stick - meaning withch hunt

Why beat this into the ground? Yes, they only tested four balls and screwed up the measurements on one of those. But, the balls were within 12.5 - 13.5 on at least one of the guages. Given, they probably couldn't say which guage was more accurate, the balls appeared legal.

Now, had they started the game at the low end of the range - they would not have been "legal" after a temperature drop. But physics alone can explain the change in the Colt's balls. The Patriot's ball were ~0.65 less than the temperature change alone could explain.

And much of that delta could be explained by uncertainty regarding the actual guage used pregame. But here is the bottom line. It wasn't the PSI numbers that caused the report to conclude as it did, it was the texts and other communications between Brady and his equipment people.

 

[GoBirds]

Cheaters.....no way around it. Make as many excuses as you want.

 

[DropKick]

If science is used to explain Colts deflation, science should explain at least some of Pats deflation. The gauges and their margin of error can reasonably be responsible for another fraction of deflation.

This leaves a minuscule fraction that is pretty small when separated from what could have been reasonably possible.

Then that starts a huge investigation. Ok and perhaps it shows the Pats have pushed the envelope and maybe even after a ref measured them, but it really doesn't Pin Point the Indy game. The balls were only a fraction under what is reasonably expected.

Most of the perception is from factors beyond the actual infraction. Admittedly I am a Pats fan, but that isnt going to change. In some ways I wish this was another team so I could look at it clean. It is an interesting fiasco.

I try... Its an off the charts fiasco. It only involves one of the marquis players in the game and a lightening rod franchise.

Its been full of false reports, press conference and even an NFL rep stealing balls intended for charity. All played out around the drama of a SB. Personally, I'd like to hold a 12, 13 and 14 PSI ball in my hand and see how they feel.

Its hard not to think the balls we're tampered with after reading the texts. But, on the flip side, how do you explain 16 PSi balls in the Jets game? I don't know if we'll ever get a candid statement from Brady.

 

[Not Sure]

golden question

why was 3 of 4 Colts balls deflated? (they only tested 4 ... its safe to assume 8 of 12 Colts balls would have been deflated)

use the same measuring stick as you use against the Patriots - what's your conlusion?

Colts deflated the balls during the game, Luck knew about it - just like the Patriots

Right ?

If you come to a DIFFERENT conclusion, then you are NOT using the same measuring stick - meaning withch hunt

I want to thank you for your never ending desire to embarrass yourself for our entertainment.