#DFG: Canceling the Noise
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SumnerH said:
Yes, it took a good two minutes to load. I blame Rev. He's the destroyer of sanity and message boarding.
Did someone get the Sal Pal video to Deadspin?
http://deadspin.com/sal-paolantonio-has-found-the-real-victim-of-ballghazi-1681393538
http://deadspin.com/sal-paolantonio-has-found-the-real-victim-of-ballghazi-1681393538
Not too many years ago this wording would have been universally interpreted as a swipe at Goodell for making such a big deal out of something so inconsequential. Now I'm not so sure.
Couple thoughts here:Ed Hillel said:
You have all-star crews.
What if one official did the game balls and another did the backups?
And what if their regular crews have different practices? Guy doing the backups uses the gauge. Other official says, "nah, I got this - our crew just does it by feel."
Well, Okay, Curren mentioned the name of the equipment manager.
His phone number is there on whitepages.com for anyone to call.
You wonder why the press has not banged down his door.
His phone number is there on whitepages.com for anyone to call.
You wonder why the press has not banged down his door.
Here is an electric ball pressure gauge we use. Take a look at what the face of the pressure gauge says. At 30 PSI there is an accuracy of +/- 3 PSI. So, to me it is for every 10 PSI there could be a difference of 1 PSI. Add any +/- into any natural deflation of the balls and you might have something.
Section15Box113 said:
It's getting closer and closer to appearing like this happened.
Because I just can't see the team willfully deflating the balls on the sidelines after the balls were checked. That's just too dumb.
To a sane person, the explanation is never that complicated. It's always simple. There's no mystery to the game, no arch cheater behind it all. If you got a slightly underinflated ball and you think the refs didn't measure the pressure with a gauge, you're gonna find out you're right.
E5 Yaz said:
Well, the NFL didn't care about Janay. So nobody cares about nothing. Except BallGate. That they care about.
Guys, check out the Solder TD play. Brady drops back, turns the ball back as though he's going to hand it off, then turns to the left and throws to the left.
Back and to the left.
Back and to the left.
Back and to the left.
Back and to the left.
pappymojo said:
More likely they were all submitted at approximately the same pressure level (say right around 12.5), and the back-ups maintained their pressure because they were stored indoors until the halftime measurements were taken. The post game measurements...well, who knows when they were taken so who knows what effect environment could have had on them.
Without details, we'll never know anything.
Point one: Maybe part of the video they are looking at is what happened in the pre-game ball inspection?
Point two: I'm not excusing the Patriots if they did something against the rules, but the part of this story I really wish would get broader play is the part of the Kraft statement and implied in the NFL statement that, on Monday or maybe Tuesday, the NFL had boots on the ground and were asking to search cell phones and personal communication devices. Think about this. This is a significant ask, and from a lawyer's perspective, the circumstances under which even courts will let you do this generally involve pretty stringent privacy procedures. We text our spouses, our kids use our phones, maybe we look at porn or mylittlepony or whatever fetish or little hobby humans have. We take pictures of our private lives. It's a big fucking deal, especially with what cell phones can do these days and how much we all use them.
So you're boots on the ground within 24 hours asking people to turn over your cell phones over 2 psi when fiances are getting knocked out and QBs are accuse of rape and you can't be bothered even to open your mail?
The league has lost its fucking way. Again, I'm not justifying what the Patriots might have done, and, like I often do, I'm echoing a bit the point rev has been making, but holy fuck. We've lost our way.
Point two: I'm not excusing the Patriots if they did something against the rules, but the part of this story I really wish would get broader play is the part of the Kraft statement and implied in the NFL statement that, on Monday or maybe Tuesday, the NFL had boots on the ground and were asking to search cell phones and personal communication devices. Think about this. This is a significant ask, and from a lawyer's perspective, the circumstances under which even courts will let you do this generally involve pretty stringent privacy procedures. We text our spouses, our kids use our phones, maybe we look at porn or mylittlepony or whatever fetish or little hobby humans have. We take pictures of our private lives. It's a big fucking deal, especially with what cell phones can do these days and how much we all use them.
So you're boots on the ground within 24 hours asking people to turn over your cell phones over 2 psi when fiances are getting knocked out and QBs are accuse of rape and you can't be bothered even to open your mail?
The league has lost its fucking way. Again, I'm not justifying what the Patriots might have done, and, like I often do, I'm echoing a bit the point rev has been making, but holy fuck. We've lost our way.
johnmd20 said:
Also Brady's statement that he likes the balls just so and nobody should fuck with them once he's selected them rings very true to me. He's a perfectionist and he doesn't want poor Murph to fuck up a football by accident. Now does Brady initially set all his balls to 11.5 psi? Quite possibly.
RedOctober3829 said:
A spec that calls for 10ths of a PSI, measured using a gauge that can only measure to whole numbers. No idea if that's the actual gauge used by the NFL, but it sounds like something right up their alley.
Is there any doubt BB would raise the Lombardi and yell INFLATE THIS before a mic drop as his paid off sound man hits the NWO theme?
steveluck7 said:
They cared about that one. He was suspended for a year.
Seriously, the NFL has had a insane amount of debacles this year. And, yet, it keeps rolling along. America!
Whoa, ESPN is talking about other football news (Dolphins Future right now, then Bills news, then Titans QB Options and then Brees Reuniting with something...)
Wow.
Wow.
brandonchristensen said:
Is Brunnell on the set?
Meanwhile,
SeifertESPN Kevin Seifert
From that story: #Patriots 78 plays per fumble. Rest of outdoor teams range from 37-58.http://t.co/mMJ1oMRp8C
They spent three days at Foxboro examining? Can't wait for CSI: NFL. Seriously, how long do murder detectives spend at the scene?
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Brunell might wear Walt Coleman as a skin suit if it comes out he didn't properly gauge the PSI.
Does it cause any unease that everyone seems to be only providing negative assurance on questions they are asked? Would love to see someone make an unequivocable statement that no one in the organization had anything to do with balls being intentionally underinflated.
