I'd only agree with your sentiment if I felt the Patriots were the only team to cheat. my gut feeling is that they do this stuff more often to give themselves every little advantage. disqualification isn't even reasonable discussion IMO. If this were the Colts, no one would be feeling so extreme. If they take away a 1st round pick, that seems appropriate to me.
Not laughing and making a mockery of it now Gronk you whore...... D'Qwell Jackson is my hero, I wanna donate money to his charity.... Again, everything stands, let them play in the SB, but after the Bowl? They better hammer BB.....
In any sporting competition if you cheat you get disqualified. Anything else and you have to ask what's the point.
Not sure I follow you. I was saying that I think disqualification is the only right response to cheating in this scenario.
Why do teams even supply their own balls. The NFL should supply them and each team should be allowed to inspect them in front of officials before the game
Courtesy of Hardkore via twatter...... http://deadspin.com/report-nfl-was-aware-of-patriots-deflation-allegations-1680914291 ooooooooh them Colts be trollingggggggggggggggggggggggggg
whats odd about that video (its the same one i posted yesterday) is that the ball boy is running over at the same exact time the whistle is blowing, leaning towards mike Carey's explanation rather then the refs calling for a new ball.
Everybody up here is telling me that it is the refs fault, not the Pats.....I mean we shall see....I am just trying to wrap my head on how the refs deflated 11 of 12 balls......makes no sense....
i think what they are saying is, why didn't the umpire, line judge or head ref notice, they are the ones who typically handle the ball the most, or the balls were never checked properly at the beginning of the game, or else they would have been inflated, etc. there was a piece from a former ref that said the do not actually check the balls with guages and do not check them all, they feel a few and if those feel normal, have a nice day.
Bill Bellicheat strikes again! Throw the book at him. It's hard enough to enjoy the game with pompous players, enormous salaries and horrible rules without teams ignoring said-rules. But they'll cover for him. Hang a ball boy or ref out to dry and pretend like his entire career isn't a farce.
It's been determined that the refs checked the balls properly beforehand and that the balls must have been altered afterwards. It's also been determined that it wouldn't have been difficult to do, and that it's been done before. It's also been shown that it's not something you'd pick up on easily, even by refs. http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...-properly-checked-before-colts-patriots-game/ I'll say it again, the Patriots should be disqualified. There's a massive cost to it but that's the right cost, and it's a cost that should be fully levied upon the Patriots. They should bear the full weight of what they have done in not only deflating footballs to beat the Colts but in tarnishing a championship game, and also the Superbowl event itself with all those ticket sales, wagers and everything else. The NFL should stand up and say, "We will not support nor tolerate cheating in any way and the Patriots will not be permitted to continue with a chance to earn football's highest prize having proceeded in this fashion." How could anyone tolerate the notion that cheaters in the NFL can still go on to have a shot at a Superbowl title? How can they retain that chance, that prize? It should be taken away from any and all cheaters and be made something that can only be attained through pure competition. If not, then the rules are just suggestions, guidelines, things to be tolerated only if you can't get away with evading them. It's sickening.
I think its why Brady and Gronk are taking to twitter laughing.. they have a good shot at the Superbowl.. If they win do you really think a fine or a draft pick is going to bother them?
It hasnt seem to impact them so why would they stop? Risk Vs Reward. They know the league doesnt have the balls to do anything about it to much $$$$$ is at stake.
How ironic they lectured the ravens about stop crying and understand the rules of the game. Galants post is spot on they should have to forfeit that game.
Replay what? Colts vs Patriots? They can do it in Indianapolis and the Patriots would still best them by 20. Besides the Colts have already checked themselves out of the season and their star players are in hawaii, drinking, partying, etc. the chance of a mulligan is gone.
If the opponents was the Ravens id be all for a replay... The Ravens mwould have a good shot of winning...But the Colts? Itll be a waste of time...
They've been doing this for a long time. Based on the assumption that fumbles per play follow a normal distribution, you’d expect to see, according to random fluctuation, the results that the Patriots have gotten over this period, once in 16,233.77 instances”. Which in layman’s terms means that this result only being a coincidence, is like winning a raffle where you have a 0.0000616 probability to win. Which in other words, it’s very unlikely that it’s a coincidence. http://www.sharpfootballanalysis.com/blog/?p=2932
Same guy - Sharp - on how individual players fumble/fumbled less when playing for Pats than for other teams: LINK Here's a good summary piece, though, bringing in analyses from a few sources. VOX End quote - "Sharp points to an interesting 2006 story recently dug up by Pro Football Focus. Prior to the 2007 season, the NFL changed a rule, making all teams responsible for providing their own footballs for every game. Before the new rule, home teams had provided footballs for both teams. Brady addressed the league's Competition Committee, petitioning for the new rule. "The thing is, every quarterback likes it a little bit different," Brady told the Sun-Sentinel. "Some like them blown up a little bit more, some like them a little more thin, some like them a little more new, some like them really broken in.""
I love how flustered this made up story got all of you Pats haters. Still no evidence that they cheated, and it's been how long now? Over 2 weeks? Lol enough said.
Who made it up? It is a fact that the Pats balls were not properly inflated and Tom Brady has been on record saying how he likes the footballs a certain way. Even if it turns out no foul play happened, the NFL has every right to investigate. Don't you have a Tom Brady jersey to make love to?
that is a homer dude, don't even give him the time of day. still curious if he is one of those homers from the beginning of the year.
