Deflate-Gate: Patriots Being Investigated For Deflated Footballs

[TN05]

Here's another one. This is the Pats fumble rate before and after the rule change allowing visitors to use their own footballs.

[TN05]

Bar graph of NFL fumble rates. Pats are the outlier on far right.

[rodeo]

Everyone's opinions are biased. That's what humans do. Nobody in this thread is looking at the situation and saying "Oh yes I am utterly objective." As Panthers fans your opinion is going to be colored already.

 

I'm a Panthers fan, 100%. The Patriots aren't even any sort of 'second team' to me, go back and find gameday threads from when we've played them, I cheer as hard as for any other game. Ted Ginn burning them in 2013 was my favorite moment of the past few years.

 

Some matters I want to defend them on and I'm not objective. That's.... really not a big deal.

[cgarsmoker]

Also, nice to see the Patriots defender in this thread isn't shy about admitting his "cousin once played for the Patriots" and he therefore lets his opinion be personally biased.

My question is, why on Earth would you waste any time and energy defending an opinion that you know is biased?

I actually respect the guy a ton more since finding out he had family on the Patriots team. For me, I appreciate him defending his family a little. Of course, I still think he's misguided for jumping in front of that Patriots bus but at least he has a good reason.

I don't mind people having biased opinions, especially when they get illogical and desperate. LOL....Slapping some common sense on an Patriots apologist head is rather entertaining.

[TN05]

The line simply connects the dots each year. 2.5% in 2006 drops to under 1.5% in 2007.....The trend is a direct result of the rules being changed in 2007.

Not just that alone - the rate stayed roughly the same for the league as a whole that year, meaning the Pats are outliers there as well.

[rodeo]

Yeah I realized that after I posted, hence the edit.

[PandaPancake]

Everyone's opinions are biased. That's what humans do. Nobody in this thread is looking at the situation and saying "Oh yes I am utterly objective." As Panthers fans your opinion is going to be colored already.

I'm a Panthers fan, 100%. The Patriots aren't even any sort of 'second team' to me, go back and find gameday threads from when we've played them, I cheer as hard as for any other game. Ted Ginn burning them in 2013 was my favorite moment of the past few years.

Some matters I want to defend them on and I'm not objective. That's.... really not a big deal.

You just can't accept you're wrong. Just move on. Take up a hobby. Need me to send you some models to build?

[cgarsmoker]

Yeah I realized that after I posted, hence the edit.

You must have been editing as I was typing....I deleted my post.

Sorry for the confusion.

[rodeo]

You just can't accept you're wrong. Just move on. Take up a hobby. Need me to send you some models to build?

 

my hobby is fighting you irl

[PandaPancake]

my hobby is fighting you irl

I don't fight amateurs

[rodeo]

please

[cgarsmoker]

I don't fight amateurs

I didn't realize penis jousting was a professional sport until I heard Brett Farve got sponsored by the Micro Touch mini grooming tool.

Don't forget to wear your safety goggles gentleman.

[rodeo]

lmao

[TheSpecial1]

I don't think the NFL will be able to prove that "someone" purposefully took air out of those footballs.