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Post by The Tax Returns Are in Kenya on Jan 23, 2015 9:42:38 GMT -5
I thought it was some kind of rule you guys have I wrote B----- and it was changed so who am I to not go with the flow now this is a team player! lol we need a Team Player award for him. The Extra Mile works for now.
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Post by Slackjaw on Jan 23, 2015 10:50:52 GMT -5
now this is a team player! lol we need a Team Player award for him. The Extra Mile works for now. lulz
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Post by mykepm on Jan 24, 2015 15:25:42 GMT -5
Some have said that Belidick came across as genuine (by his standards) in his press conference, and that maybe he really didn't have anything to do with the ball deflation. I keep coming back to this comment: He is clearly in cover-up mode here, implying things that clearly contradict the reports that had already come out before his presser. - Belidick is suggesting that the deflation found during the AFCCG was a natural occurrence which his staff can compensate for in the future by inflating the balls slightly above spec. Given that the balls used by the Colts didn't experience the same deflation, nor (apparently) did the correctly-inflated balls the Patriots used in the 2nd half, this is obviously not the case.
- Belidick's "example" of the ball deflating from 12.5 to 12.3 is an obvious attempt to make the infraction look (much) smaller than it actually was. As it's been reported, the actual deflation was not only .2 psi, as in his example - it was a full 2 psi - a gap which signifies the difference between incidental deflation and deliberate deflation.
As with just about everything that Belidick says or does, these comments were very deliberate (signified by the speech being read from a written statement). They aren't the comments of someone who has been presented with the evidence that something odd has occurred and who wants to find out what happened. They're the words of someone who is ignoring facts and attempting to both understate the infraction that occurred and to create an alibi for his whole organization. If he truly has no knowledge of wrongdoing, as he states, he is defending the practice of cheating in the organization he runs (a.k.a. "The Patriot Way"). If he did/does know how the intentional deflation occurred, he's an outright liar.
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Post by mykepm on Jan 24, 2015 15:29:37 GMT -5
Wow. I wrote that without knowing that the new presser was going on. Pretty much trumps everything I said.
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Post by jetstream23 on Jan 25, 2015 9:41:27 GMT -5
Impromptu press conference where he talks about rubbing the balls and makes a Mona Lisa Vito reference. WTF is going on with this guy?
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