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If the Colts started towards the top end of that range, it is possible that while all of the balls deflated due to an external factor, only the Patriots' balls actually ended up under the legal limit.
Quote from: Chris on January 23, 2015, 04:35:54 PMIf the Colts started towards the top end of that range, it is possible that while all of the balls deflated due to an external factor, only the Patriots' balls actually ended up under the legal limit.Just for my own curiosity what do you think this external factor would be? Can you also explain why this external factor did not effect the Patriots' balls in the second half? (According to reports the balls were re-inflated and checked by refs at half time to and rechecked for legality at the end of the game--passing both times).
So you do not find it suspicious that they inflate their game balls in a sauna? Or is really that much hotter in the Patriots locker room than the Colts' locker room?
Sneaky, sneaky. They sure earned a bad reputation for themselves!
1. Did the balls for Tom Brady not feel different because he has been using under inflated balls for years, or this year at least?
2. If the colts had a higher PSI by a full pound at the start of the game (this is your speculation, the NFL has not confirmed this) and the balls deflated approximately equally. why is there now a 2lbs discrepancy?
3. If the colts balls where inflated to 13.5 and the patriots to 12.5 wouldnt the increased psi on the colts mean an increased deflation speed? Wouldnt that close the 1 psi descrepency rather than enlarge it?
But what has the NFL really found? As one league source has explained it to PFT, the football intercepted by Colts linebacker D’Qwell Jackson was roughly two pounds under the 12.5 PSI minimum. The other 10 balls that reportedly were two pounds under may have been, as the source explained it, closer to one pound below 12.5 PSI.The NFL has yet to share specific information regarding the PSI measurements of the balls that were confiscated and measured at halftime. Which has allowed the perception of cheating to linger, fueled by the confirmation from Friday that the NFL found underinflated balls, but that the NFL still doesn’t know how they came to be that way.“The goals of the investigation will be to determine the explanation for why footballs used in the game were not in compliance with the playing rules and specifically whether any noncompliance was the result of deliberate action,” the league said. “We have not made any judgments on these points and will not do so until we have concluded our investigation and considered all of the relevant evidence.”
Quote1. Did the balls for Tom Brady not feel different because he has been using under inflated balls for years, or this year at least?Inflate a football to 12.5 PSI, then deflate it to 11.5 PSI and feel the difference. The impact of that small a change is fairly minimal.
It's also important to remember, as Chris just pointed out, that there is not much difference at all between a ball that is inflated to 10.5-11.0 PSI and a ball at 12.5 PSI.
You mean, of course 10.5 PSI--'cause the one turned in following the Colt interception was 2 pounds under the required minimum.
Here is a video of fans doing your test.
But maybe your average folks off the street aren't the best judges. What do former players say? Here is a video of former players doing the same test.
@_JM_ Everyone else is doing is not a legit answer. Pushing the envelope is not legal in the NFL and it's not about the one game. It's about what it represents for the Patriots brand, Bellicheck, Brady and Kraft. 2 times now publicly exposed the fear is that they have a culture in fox borough, a culture of "pushing the envelope."
Rather, my question is why are people making such a huge fuss over this?
Literally anyone in this topic who is condemning the Patriots for this right now is basing every single one of their assumptions on a single report. Absolutely everything since then has speculation, with virtually anyone with any kind of authority either ignoring it or talking about how stupid it is. The only entity that stands to profit from it is the same one that started it: ESPN. If you are honestly convinced the Patriots did this intentionally at this stage, you must really not care about a little thing called "evidence," because right now, there isn't any.
Show me any actual real evidence of intentional wrongdoing by the Patriots.
There is no real Proof out there, everything is opinionated and assumed, however, those opinions are strong.
Lost total respect for the article when it said this isn't random chance when obviously it could be random chance