Dennis and Callahan @DandCShow 5m5 minutes ago
Just spoke with the Patriots and once again Chris Mortensen is wrong, the Krafts did not apologize. Details tomorrow morning at 6.
Dennis and Callahan @DandCShow 5m5 minutes ago
Just spoke with the Patriots and once again Chris Mortensen is wrong, the Krafts did not apologize. Details tomorrow morning at 6.
ifmanis5 said:I mean.. just... what in actual fuck. RG is a clown show with no rival.
Well done.Jed Zeppelin said:Guys, it was the Kraft Foundation that called to apologize to Mort. Simple mistake that any respectable journalist could make.
Honestly, he has handled this about as badly as humanly possible. He has accepted no responsibility for anything, played the "I don't want to make this about me" card multiple times (of course all the while making it about him). He also feigned moral outrage at WEEI for "making him the center of the story" when of course....he was LITERALLY the only story since they were just trying to figure out why his tweet was so wrong and why he didn't delete it.DrewDawg said:Nice. Because at the end of the day, Mort handled this badly and needs to be called out on it.
Someone needs to get a transcript posted as soon as possible tomorrow.
snowmanny said:If I hear about that fumble rate idiocy again I may have to strangle someone. Or rant like a lunatic. This was a "study" done with basically no data points, just a presumption that the NEP's used balls of indeterminate lower deflation than other teams..but of course we have no clue what New England's average psi was or what any teams's average psi was. And there was no study of exactly how psi effects ball grip and so forth, which would be pretty easy to do if you really thought it was very important, just a presumption that there must be some sort of direct correlation. And no credit to the fact that there are lots of other variables that that one team might do differently than another that could effect fumble rate (player selection, play calling, coaching, and of course whether or not they routinely bench anybody that fumbles). And no thought that if you have a historically great team then they are probably historically great at particular aspects of the game and that doesn't mean that they were cheating any more than it would mean that the 1927 Yankees were using corked bats, juiced baseballs and steroids. And no mention that in the ten quarters of football that we know for a fact the 2014 Patriots played with perfectly inflated OR OVERINFLATED footballs (Jets game, Super Bowl, 2nd half AFCCG) they fumbled a grand total of zero times. And of course the unspoken implication of all this is that if Brady was behind this "scheme" he wouldn't be doing to decrease the fumble rate therefore it really was Belichick all along. Too many stupid people. Way too many stupid people.
catomatic said:Stole it from Neil Young—from whom True Detective must have stolen it too. It's a classic.
I can see RK/JK saying that they have more of an issue with Mort's league office sources who leaked him the story but that isn't an apology.Ed Hillel said:On what planet are the Krafts apologizing to Mort for anything? It makes no fucking sense, the man is delusional.
@AndyWEEI: Mort is reporting that Malcolm Butler just called Pete Carroll to apologize. #MortReport
simplyeric said:'Look Mort, I'm sorry to tell you that you got everything wrong, were totally played by your sources, your journalistic integrity is long gone, and I think you owe it to everyone to correct your story.'
Mort: I accept your apology.
Yes it's important to maintain the integrity of this thread!mwonow said:
Not to sidetrack the thread, but the Neil Young song is a stone classic (jj44, do you really not hear it when you read the poem?), and the True Detective 2 theme is by Leonard Cohen - and pretty great in its own right.
I know nothing of True Detective and spoke from ignorance and surmises. But Neil Young I know well and Leonard Cohen somewhat. I've been railroaded, here. I'd like to appeal my suspension, please—to someone less prejudicial than you yourself, if possible.simplyeric said:Yes it's important to maintain the integrity of this thread!
4 game suspensions for all of you!
But seriously, this is how I pictured it all along. Perhaps not to this ridiculous degree, but I could easily see something like:There is no Rev said:
This is tremendous.
Sox and Rocks said:Al Davis once called mort a "professional liar."
catomatic said:I know nothing of True Detective and spoke from ignorance and surmises. But Neil Young I know well and Leonard Cohen somewhat. I've been railroaded, here. I'd like to appeal my suspension, please—to someone less prejudicial than you yourself, if possible.
You're lucky I don't have $5million to commission an investigation looking into this.catomatic said:I know nothing of True Detective and spoke from ignorance and surmises. But Neil Young I know well and Leonard Cohen somewhat. I've been railroaded, here. I'd like to appeal my suspension, pleaseto someone less prejudicial than you yourself, if possible.
BingoHoya81 said:I can see RK/JK saying that they have more of an issue with Mort's league office sources who leaked him the story but that isn't an apology.
cshea said:They just said the Krafts didn't apologize.They told Mort their beef was with the source, not him.
And, yes, Tanguay is ruining everything. Saying Belichick threw Brady under the bus because he knew Brady did it.
Jed Zeppelin said:Blaming Belichick is such a bizarre retconning of events. So you watched BB's first presser then stopped thinking about it at all since then?
If you believe Schefter, we know that the league was having trouble pinning anything on anyone while bumbling through its investigation, but Brady was always going to be "implicated" once it got to the texts of Mr. and Mr. "Got a big needle for you" (probable dick joke btw). BB is yet another red herring.
Why were Thursday’s Bill Belichick/Tom Brady news conferences mostly useless?
Simple: If either man said anything other than that he knows nothing about deflated New England footballs in the first half of the AFC Championship Game, he likely would have been banned from the Super Bowl. And so if either man had something to hide, he likely would be willing to risk getting whacked for it after the Super Bowl—instead of admitting it and then being the first coach or player in the 49-year history of the game to be banned the week of the game by the NFL.
Yup, he also said the NFL purposefully withheld all correct PSI numbers to keep the Pats in the dark and on the defensive.cshea said:Florio apparently has new info on the psi numbers.
Florio says he requested the AFCCG psi numbers from the league on the day of the Super Bowl and was denied.
cshea said:Florio apparently has new info on the psi numbers.
Florio says he requested the AFCCG psi numbers from the league on the day of the Super Bowl and was denied.
Isn't this old news? The context site put up the email of the league finally giving the Patriots the correct numbers weeks after first requested and the league putting a gag order on the Patriots barring the release of the numbers.ifmanis5 said:Yup, he also said the NFL purposefully withheld all correct PSI numbers to keep the Pats in the dark and on the defensive.
cshea said:Florio says he requested the AFCCG psi numbers from the league on the day of the Super Bowl and was denied.
ifmanis5 said:Yup, he also said the NFL purposefully withheld all correct PSI numbers to keep the Pats in the dark and on the defensive.
Agree and it infuriates me even more that the NFL keeps quoting "integrity of the game."Hoya81 said:
If the league was trying to overtly undermine and distract the Pats prior to the game, that's essentially the NFL putting the fix in for the Seahawks.