#DFG: Canceling the Noise
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Nick Kaufman said:
Who cares? Haters gonna hate. Pats' fans should feel 100% confident no tampering occurred and the NFL has nothing on them. There will be no significant penalties. That's all that matters. If you're trying to win a PR battle, good fucking luck.
Three things the NFL can do now:
1. Come out quickly with a statement saying they haven't found jack shit, so the Pats won't be penalized.
2. Tuck their tails between their legs and drag it out until after the Super Bowl so they don't look like complete idiots.
3. Get pissed at being made a fool of by Bill and ramp up investigations to the point they're torturing ballboys to come up with something incriminating.
1. Come out quickly with a statement saying they haven't found jack shit, so the Pats won't be penalized.
2. Tuck their tails between their legs and drag it out until after the Super Bowl so they don't look like complete idiots.
3. Get pissed at being made a fool of by Bill and ramp up investigations to the point they're torturing ballboys to come up with something incriminating.
Peter King @SI_PeterKing 9s9 seconds ago
Riveting and unusual and well-reasoned. With one exception: Why did the Colts footballs apparently not fluctuate the way New England’s did?
Riveting and unusual and well-reasoned. With one exception: Why did the Colts footballs apparently not fluctuate the way New England’s did?
Mark Schofield said:
@MatthewBerryTMR · 39m 39 minutes ago
The more I hear from the Patriots about the deflate gate thing, the more guilty I think they are.
It is still amazing how some media are now saying that they didn't realize how serious this was, but now were essentially taught (schooled) by Belichick. Well, if it wasn't so serious, then why did they bring it up so much and drag the organization under the bus. The 180-turn may be beginning.
What a Saturday....I missed a few hours and came on to post that we now have Bledsoe in the Brady camp:
http://www.boston.com/sports/football/patriots/2015/01/24/drew-bledsoe-pretty-mad-about-the-way-tom-brady-has-been-treated/FJv6yOlXtsEx1Bat8AKbyH/story.html?p1=feature_sec_hp
Apologies if it was posted earlier....I thought the Bledsoe story would be nice, but Belichick just hit a home run.
What a Saturday....I missed a few hours and came on to post that we now have Bledsoe in the Brady camp:
http://www.boston.com/sports/football/patriots/2015/01/24/drew-bledsoe-pretty-mad-about-the-way-tom-brady-has-been-treated/FJv6yOlXtsEx1Bat8AKbyH/story.html?p1=feature_sec_hp
Apologies if it was posted earlier....I thought the Bledsoe story would be nice, but Belichick just hit a home run.
What about Ugg boots? Will the ladies still wear Ugg boots? I didn't hear Belichick mention Ugg boots?
Absolutely one of BB's finest hours. It sucks that he had to spend the better part of a week involved with this issue. And seriously, fuck all the commentators who absolutely pilloried Brady and BB over this. It was basically a week of character assassination based on totally incomplete information.
Who the fuck knows Pete? Why doesn't the NFl launch an investigation on the Indy balls? Maybe they were pumped up on the sidelines?Corsi said:
Did he miss the implication that perhaps the officials never really properly inflated the Patriots' footballs? Sigh.Corsi said:
EDIT: Or simply the fact that the Patriots had no opportunity to deflate them. Maybe "deflate-gate" just doesn't even accurately this whole story. SoSH has it much better as Ballghazi.
PedroKsBambino said:
One of the last questions was about this, but BB downplayed it. He said "I've prepared for the game a lot this week." or something. So, at the very least, BB himself isn't trying to make a big deal out of that.
If this past week hasn't taught you that the collective consciousness is best disregarded completely, I don't know what to tell you.Nick Kaufman said:
then maybe they can do a fucking investigation or test. maybe they can badger the Colts about this. In fact, I hope this happens.ifmanis5 said:
Also that's purely temperature right? Not counting potential effects of 300lb men jumping on the ball?SumnerH said:
I just read the last dozen pages at a mall. I didn't see it, but this read like a piece of media that needs to be in the Library of fucking Congress.
I thought Werder might've been implying the Colts proactively inflated their ball on the sideline to avoid getting the same flak as the Patriots, but that's me. King was 100% trolling, though. Also, Mad Dog Radio, both as an organization and individually, can get totally fucked.
Okay, off to get new pants.
I thought Werder might've been implying the Colts proactively inflated their ball on the sideline to avoid getting the same flak as the Patriots, but that's me. King was 100% trolling, though. Also, Mad Dog Radio, both as an organization and individually, can get totally fucked.
Okay, off to get new pants.
Neil @RealNeilB 12m12 minutes ago
Here is the study done by HeadSmart Lab at Carnegie Mellon University exonerating the Pats: https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/131228/d8f159cc-99db-47be-b8d1-1828d64dde17/HeadSmartLabs_The_Science_Behind_DeflateGate.pdf …
So which one of you got to work on the My Cousin Vinny Wikipedia? Excellent work whoever it is
ifmanis5 said:
Really, is the entirety of the american media brain damaged? How do you watch a press conference and miss THE ONLY point Belichick was trying to make? I mean, jesus fucking christ. Aside from that, we still have absolutely no confirmation on wether the refs actually checked the balls, so they could've been a little under inflated in the first place.
Oh, and WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WERE THE INITIAL AND FINAL PSI FOR THE COLT'S BALLS.
riboflav said:
Of course the PR battle matters, otherwise, we shouldn't be bothering with this thread.
Also, of course SNL is culturally relevant. "I can see Russia from my house" didn't matter in putting the ultimate stamp on Palin's reputation?
Exactly. Wait until the players get on the field for the game and find that, due to Goodell's explicit memo, all the balls weigh exactly 13 pounds.ifmanis5 said:You still should be.
Sometimes you have to come up swinging, consequences be damned. This was one of those times.
Let the NFL find proof of tampering, and then show us that proof. Otherwise, this needs to go away. It's more and more obvious that the supposedly stringent football pressure testing protocols that are followed prior to the game are a joke.
The mediots will poke holes, reading into Bill's statements random nefarious intentions that don't exist. This will continue; Ben Volin will be all butthurt. But I think the chances that Goodell can find his "smoking gun" have just moved from slim to none. And I personally could care less if the Pats get fined as a result; not my money.
Let the NFL find proof of tampering, and then show us that proof. Otherwise, this needs to go away. It's more and more obvious that the supposedly stringent football pressure testing protocols that are followed prior to the game are a joke.
The mediots will poke holes, reading into Bill's statements random nefarious intentions that don't exist. This will continue; Ben Volin will be all butthurt. But I think the chances that Goodell can find his "smoking gun" have just moved from slim to none. And I personally could care less if the Pats get fined as a result; not my money.
And what Peter King and Werder are asking isn't laughable. It came across my mind as well, before I thought that may be the Colts' balls had higher PSI pressure to begin with. But this needs to be explained and shown to most of the people, because it's not intuitively obvious.
Nick Kaufman said:
Good point. They should have waited until Monday morning. It's not like they have a game to plan for or anything.
Who cares? As a Pats fan this satisfied me that there were no shenanigans. Who gives a fuck what anyone else thinks?Nick Kaufman said:
Nick Kaufman said:
But it doesn;t matter. He's not a Colts employee, or an official, or in the NFL office. He did an investigation that leads him to believe the PATRIOTS did nothing wrong, and offered some explanation how the PATRIOTS balls could have been low even though the PATRIOTS did nothing wrong. The rest is noise that he cannot know.
It's a fair question, but it's one for the NFL or for the Colts, not for Belichick. Even if he knew, it's probably verboten for him to comment on that.Nick Kaufman said:
Anyone who now argues that the ball pressure for *both* teams at the start of the game is not relevant should be sent to their own private twitterverse for idiots.
peeves5478 said:
Phenomenal work. I nearly spit out my water...we just have to embrace the fact that everybody fucking loves to hate us. We are the NFL's version of the nWo.