Oh, and asked if he was being used as part of smear campaign against Brady and the Pats, says "I never said anything about Brady." Ignores the "and the Pats" part.
Dick Pole Upside said:Also said he talked to Kraft and Kraft said the Pats' beef is with NFL, not him.
I actually believe this part.AB in DC said:Says that he believes nothing would have changed if he had just omitted the 'two pounds" part and just said 'significant". Wow. Just, wow.
WHITE LIST!!!!!!soxhop411 said:Kevin Duffy @KevinRDuffy 22m22 minutes ago
Mortensen wraps up his interview by saying it's his view that there never should have been investigation into Patriots.
And 1.6 using the other gauge. I think that's enough to look at and say that it's significant. And though he wasn't using it as a technical term, I believe it qualified as statistically significant (p= .05), no? The bit about the ideal gas law is true, but presumably the source wasn't saying "there's no other possible explanation". Just "our initial findings show that the balls were in fact under inflated, and not by a marginal amount."rodderick said:No, Mort, the deflation that occurred wasn't "significant" either. It's 1 PSI on average using one gauge and 1.3 PSI averaging both gauges. Not to mention the balls were in the range predicted by the ideal gas law. So get the fuck out of here with this "well, the spirit of what I reported was right" business.
6:03PaulinMyrBch said:I'm thinking it will only take Florio 30-45 minutes to accumulate the links needed to shoot a ton of holes in Mort's explanation. The upcoming story should be a nice concise beatdown. My money is on 6:25.
Pretty much. "I'm old, I don't get computers! Ha ha ha!"Marciano490 said:Wait, did he really, actually, truly say he didn't retract because he didn't know how to delete a tweet or is that parody?
He admittedly hasn't heard the entire radio piece. So I think he'll update it later.dcdrew10 said:6:03
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/08/03/mortensen-talks-11-of-12-footballs-report-on-espn-radio/
Florio was nice, saying Mort is in between a rock and a hard place. He has to watch out for his own neck but not implicate any potential future sources that those people he doesn't name will owe him some serious favors. But Florio does say there's a lot of holes in Mort's explanation. He could've been a lot more forceful; I think he was just paying Mortsome professional courtesy.
(bolded mine)ifmanis5 said:This story is his credabilty Waterloo and ESPN's also pretty soon.
He's let this turd hang out there attached to his name for MONTHS and did nothing to investigate it further. No way a Will McDonough, Ed Pope or Jerry Izenberg would knowingly have their names attached to a story that was quikly determined to be totally false (on ego grounds alone) and then do nothing to correct it. He is a total hack.
BrunanskysSlide said:Doesn't his line about talking to Kraft, and Kraft being angry with the NFL and not Mort somewhat confirm his original sources are from the NFL?
"And oh by the way, in my original reporting, (I) never implicated Tom Brady. Never implicated the Patriots. I did ask the question if Walt Anderson, the referee, followed the protocol and the league assured me he had."
'And I said I'm not going to let you or Mr. Kraft or anybody do any more misreporting about this thing, so don't call.'
BrunanskysSlide said:Doesn't his line about talking to Kraft, and Kraft being angry with the NFL and not Mort somewhat confirm his original sources are from the NFL?
PhilPlantier said:
I don't think we need to look to any exchange between Kraft and Mortensen to divine that the sources were from the league. In his interview today, Mortensen said he spoke to three people who purportedly had inside information about the gauge readings before the story broke. Then he said, "I did ask the question if Walt Anderson, the referee, followed the protocol and the league assured me he had." In his ESPN.com article in January, Mortensen attributed his 11 of 12 report to "league sources involved and familiar with the investigation of Sunday's AFC Championship Game."
The NFL has found that 11 of the New England Patriots' 12 game balls were inflated significantly below the NFL's requirements, league sources involved and familiar with the investigation of Sunday's AFC Championship Game told ESPN.
EDITOR'S PICKS
MacMullan: Arrogance demands consequences
With the integrity of the game at stake, the NFL should come down hard on Bill Belichick and the Pats if they are proven to have underinflated footballs, writes Jackie MacMullan.
More info needed before judgment passed
Are the officials at fault? Were Indy's game balls weighed as well? More facts are needed before judging the Patriots, writes Mike Reiss.
The investigation found the footballs were inflated 2 pounds per square inch below what's required by NFL regulations during the Pats' 45-7 victory over the Indianapolis Colts, according to sources.
"We are not commenting at this time," said Greg Aiello, the NFL's senior vice president of communications.
That's why I thought the whole Kraft part of that exchange was a little more telling. If Mort and Kraft actually had that conversation and Kraft told Mort, "Hey, I'm really not mad at you I'm mad at the NFL for what they fed you..." and the NFL was not the source, Mort would have either never mentioned that exchange on the air, corrected Kraft that they weren't the source, or said something to this effect during the interview: "Kraft and I spoke, and even though he has no reason to be, he's mad at the NFL." I felt it was a way of giving up the NFL as the source without actually giving it up, even if he did it by mistake. I'm probably reading way too much into it though.Shelterdog said:
League sources is often used far more generally than an NFL league employee--depending on the reporter it can be an agent, a player, a coach, an owner, a team front office player.
Shelterdog said:
League sources is often used far more generally than an NFL league employee--depending on the reporter it can be an agent, a player, a coach, an owner, a team front office player.