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Post by mykepm on Jan 27, 2015 13:13:20 GMT -5
After listening to his press conference I feel bad for him.... He's been duped... And it sounds like he had a mild stroke. When the Shats are found guilty, I hope Roger comes down hard on them... Id love for it to happen bing, but you know as well as I know that Goodell is Kraft's bitch and will do whatever he says. The asshole lawyers who the NFL hired will be paid tons of money just to say that the poor ballboy did it and there is no evidence that he was told to do it by either Belifuck or SparklePony. Case closed and I hope the guy gets impeached and rots in hell. I'm even more cynical about it than you are. Unless the kid confesses, they'll just make the "he had to pee" story hold up, and say the science is too cloudy to make a definitive judgment that the balls were deliberately deflated.
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Post by mykepm on Jan 27, 2015 13:04:24 GMT -5
Bottom line is there is no reason a Flats* ball boy should need to take a bag of footballs into the bathroom...PERIOD. What if the poor kid needed to pee? This, of course, will be the story given by the Pats - a story in which they feel so confident that they are doubling down on "righteous" outrage every time they get in front of a microphone. Considering that attitude, and the report that the Patriots themselves gave the video to the NFL, I'm skeptical that this will be the smoking gun that proves the case against them.
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Post by mykepm on Jan 26, 2015 17:12:20 GMT -5
I wonder if this low-level employee was captured on video doing the same thing in any of the other football stadiums the Patsies played in this season... Or previous seasons?
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Post by mykepm on Jan 25, 2015 16:44:50 GMT -5
So here's what the Fagtriot fans are hanging on to... LOL... a supposed conspiracy by ESPN to hide proof the deflation had no effect. Most likely the video was pulled because it was stupid and proved nothing either way. www.massholesports.com/2015/01/espn-removed-sports-science-video-that.html?m=1
Saturday, January 24, 2015 ESPN Removed A Sports Science Video That Scientifically Proved Deflated Balls Didn't Give Tom SparklePony A Competitive Advantage. What A Bunch Of Crooked Bastids.
We may have a conspiracy on our hands, people.
ESPN Sports Science did an experiment where they deflated a football by 2 pounds and they proved, scientifically, that while such a ball would be easier to grip, the velocity would be reduced and the receiver would lose about an inch when attempting to catch the ball.
So, basically the Deflatriots did not have a competitive advantage in that Colts game and may have actually been at a disadvantage. And mysteriously, the video has been removed from ESPN.com:
ESPN.com screenshot
Jesus H. Christ, I understand ESPN hates Tom SparklePony but this is a friggin joke. They're ignoring science so that the mindless haters can just keep on mindlessly hating. What a bunch of bullshit.
I think we finally have our smoking gun that proves all of this Deflate-Gate garbage is nothing more than a media created witch hunt to drive up rating while pandering to the Deflatriot haters. Why else would ESPN hide the evidence that would end Deflate-Gate once and for all?
The assholes running ESPN ought to be ashamed of themselves. And if they're smart, they'll back the fuck off of Tom SparklePony before Robert Kraft sues them for slander.
Anyway, thankfully nothing ever really dies on the internet. Someone uploaded the video to youtube (and it's still there as of right now). Here is the video that ESPN is trying to hide from us that would clear Tom SparklePony's name and shut up all the ignorant douchebags who irrationally hate the Deflatriots.
Patsies fans don't get it: It doesn't matter whether or not a deflated ball would give them an advantage. There is a rule that dictates what the air pressure should be, and the Patriots broke it. The "it didn't really benefit us" argument didn't work for Spygate either. The "it's a stupid rule" argument also means nothing (besides, Brady is on record as saying he prefers a deflated ball, whether or not it gives him a scientific advantage). Belidick's comments about Spygate yesterday clearly indicate that he thinks NFL rules shouldn't apply to him if he doesn't agree with them. Arrogance.
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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 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 11:06:59 GMT -5
There are rumors that Chip Kelly is desperate to get Mariota. If Mariota falls to our pick (which some mock drafters are projecting), it's possible that the Eagles would send us Foles and some high picks this year and next to get him (although it would likely mean not getting our first pick until the 20th spot this year.
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Post by mykepm on Jan 22, 2015 14:07:22 GMT -5
If they won some games this year due to this, they might have been the 4 seed and might already be out of the playoffs. People keep talking about the Colts game but I bet they have been doing this for awhile. There's probably no available proof that balls from previous games were deflated, and I'm sure the Patriots (with the help of Gooddell, probably) will claim this was a one-time thing -similar to how they claimed that the videotaping only occurred for a limited time and didn't affect any playoff games or Super Bowls, even though common sense says otherwise.
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