The glaring holes in Belidick‘s Deflategate ‘science’By Steve SerbyJanuary 24, 2015 | 9:37pm
He can now go by the name Bull Belidick, suddenly the mad scientist who conducted an internal study on the effects of atmospheric conditions on the preparation of a football.
What’s next, Bill Nye the Science Guy giving a clinic on the 3-4 defense?
It was an impassioned and defiant defense of the Patriots’ Weigh, but no matter how hard he tries now he’s guilty until proven innocent because he can’t deflate Spygate lasting stain on his credibility. And it will be up to the NFL to decide whether or not he and/or Tom Brady are culpable, to answer this daring, pugnacious challenge to put up or shut up.
The only thing missing at this impromptu Saturday press conference was a black and white dog named Checkers.
Or the line: “If it does not fit, you must acquit.”
For everyone who still considers him Bull Belidick, he sounded like a desperate man whistling in the wind, flying over Deflategate in a hot air balloon.
Nothing in his scientific study offered conclusive evidence a Patriots employee with access to the balls approved by the officials did not tamper with them in the 2-hour, 15-minute interval prior to kickoff.
Or explained why all 12 balls used by the Colts in the AFC title game were legit.
Deflategate is all about making the texture and feel of the football comfortable for Brady.
It is one thing to prepare a football, quite another to surreptitiously unprepare it in a clandestine manner.
But while the NFL fiddles, Belidick burns.
“There are multiple types of gauges, and the accuracy of one gauge relative to another … there’s some variance there,” Belidick said
Let’s consider that one a classic misdirection play that attempts to take the sweltering heat off his quarterback and himself.
The mounting of a reasonable doubt defense.
As much as Belidick may know now about the science of the football, there was no way he could possibly have simulated the same atmospheric conditions of the warm, rain-drenched AFC title game.
“I’m not a scientist. … I’m not an expert in footballs. … I’m not an expert in football measurements. … I’m just telling you what I know.”
“My Cousin Vinny,” he knows.
“Would not say that I’m Mona Lisa Vito of the football world, as she was in the car expertise area, all right?” Belidick said.
A Hall of Fame football career has come to this. Does anyone ever remember Vince Lombardi conducting a study on the pigskin — “Air pressure isn’t everything, it’s the only thing?” Or telling us that all balls are not created equal.
“At no time, was there any intent whatsoever, to try to compromise the integrity of the game, or to gain an advantage — quite the opposite,” Belidick said.
“We feel like we followed the rules of the game to the letter in our preparations, in our procedures, all right? And in the way that we handled every game that we competitively play in as it relates to this matter, all right?
“We try to do everything right. We err on the side of caution. It’s been that way now for many years. Anything that’s close, we stay as far away from the line as we can. As far as I know, and everything that I can do, we did everything as right as we could do it.”
Only seven years after not doing everything as right as the league regulated they should do it.
“The guy’s giving signals out in front of 80,000 people, OK?,” Belidick said of Spygate. “So we filmed him taking signals out in front of 80,000 people, like there were a lot of other team doing at that time, too. Forget about that. If we were wrong then we’ve been disciplined for that …
“We never did it again. We’re never going to do it again and anything else that’s close, we’re not going to do either.”
Your move, NFL.
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