Deflate-Gate: Patriots Being Investigated For Deflated Footballs

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[ThinkAboutIt]

Meanwhile, Luck was awful with a regulation size football in the biggest game of his NFL career. 

 

No one is talking about that...SUCCESS!!! 

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[rodeo]

At this point from what I've seen, the most likely scenario is that the balls were improperly tested in the pre-game approval.

 

Adam Schefter has reported that the league is having trouble finding any evidence of tampering, despite over 50 cameras in the area.

 

Combined with a former Bears ball boy coming out and saying that most often the pregame inspection consisted of the refs holding the footballs and looking at the laces, without actually measuring anything, and that in all his time as a ball boy the refs didn't reject a single ball.

 

I think what is gonna end up being the case is that the Patriots deflated the balls before the pre-game, in the same manner that the Packers overinflate theirs, and the refs failed to properly test them before approving them for use.

[Semaj]

Mark Brunell was on TV earlier and he believes Brady is lying and he is disappointed in him. He said QB's always know the condition of the balls going into games and that any tinkering with balls such as breaking them in by scuffing the ball with a brush or whatever is controlled by the QB. He would have been the one that requested that the ball was deflated. It would have been his decision.

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Of course it was his decision, he's the person who it benefits. The thing we don't know though is when the deflating happened, as there's so far no actual evidence it happened on the sideline. If it happened before the initial inspection it's perfectly legal. If it happened after that, why can they not find any evidence or footage of someone deflating the balls on the sideline?

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I'm just going to leave this here: http://www.sharpfootballanalysis.com/blog/