Patriots/NFL Super Bowl LVI - Bengals vs. Rams - Brady officially retires - McDaniels to Raiders

[Gator Mike]

Oh.

First, let’s take a closer look at the development that caused Deflategate to mushroom from a curiosity into a firestorm. It came from Chris Mortensen of ESPN, who reported that 11 of 12 footballs used by the New England offense during the game against the Colts were underinflated by at least two pounds each.

The information was eventually shown to be false. Mort took the bullet for it, never complaining or calling out his source. (In fact, he clung to the discredited information for months, before his original item at ESPN.com was “clarified” with an acknowledgement that the initial report was incorrect.)

So who was his source? Per a source with knowledge of the situation and as explained in Playmakers, the source for the notorious 11-of-12 footballs report was NFL executive V.P. of football operations Troy Vincent.​

Beginning with the 2015 season, the NFL began conducting air-pressure spot-checks at halftime of games. The numbers were collected and protected, with none of the information ever coming to light.

So what happened to those numbers from the 2015 season? Per a source with knowledge of the situation, and as reported in Playmakers, the NFL expunged the numbers. It happened at the direct order, per the source, of NFL general counsel Jeff Pash.

Why would the league delete the numbers? It’s simple. For cold days, the numbers were too close to the actual numbers generated by the New England footballs at halftime of the playoff game against the Colts. Which means that the numbers generated at halftime of the January 2015 AFC Championship were not evidence of cheating, but of the normal operation of air pressure inside a rubber bladder when the temperature drops. Just as it was expected.​

From Playmakers: NFL general counsel Jeff Pash ordered expungement of 2015 air-pressure measurements - ProFootballTalk

 

[JRull86]

Oufs... don't think bold part fit together!

Uhh he's 1 game over .500 in the playoffs, with 1 Super Bowl, despite multiple 1st round byes and home field advantage.

Regular season doesn't mean anything when you consistently fail in the post season

 

[JRull86]

JC Jackson picking guys off at the pro bowl

They desperately need to get him signed long term.

 

[EverettMike]

Oufs... don't think bold part fit together!

Buddy, wait until you read about Jeff George. Gonna blow your mind.

 

[McGarnagle]

Oh.

First, let’s take a closer look at the development that caused Deflategate to mushroom from a curiosity into a firestorm. It came from Chris Mortensen of ESPN, who reported that 11 of 12 footballs used by the New England offense during the game against the Colts were underinflated by at least two pounds each.

The information was eventually shown to be false. Mort took the bullet for it, never complaining or calling out his source. (In fact, he clung to the discredited information for months, before his original item at ESPN.com was “clarified” with an acknowledgement that the initial report was incorrect.)

So who was his source? Per a source with knowledge of the situation and as explained in Playmakers, the source for the notorious 11-of-12 footballs report was NFL executive V.P. of football operations Troy Vincent.​

Beginning with the 2015 season, the NFL began conducting air-pressure spot-checks at halftime of games. The numbers were collected and protected, with none of the information ever coming to light.

So what happened to those numbers from the 2015 season? Per a source with knowledge of the situation, and as reported in Playmakers, the NFL expunged the numbers. It happened at the direct order, per the source, of NFL general counsel Jeff Pash.

Why would the league delete the numbers? It’s simple. For cold days, the numbers were too close to the actual numbers generated by the New England footballs at halftime of the playoff game against the Colts. Which means that the numbers generated at halftime of the January 2015 AFC Championship were not evidence of cheating, but of the normal operation of air pressure inside a rubber bladder when the temperature drops. Just as it was expected.​

From Playmakers: NFL general counsel Jeff Pash ordered expungement of 2015 air-pressure measurements - ProFootballTalk

Brady got raked over the coals because he has his old cell phones destroyed when he upgrades to a new version and was suspended 4 games for being "generally aware" with no proof. Meanwhile the league is actually purging records that showed that they lied about the evidence? And it came from Troy Vincent? Jeez.


Amazing that the entire reputation of the Patriots has been bogged down with accusations of cheating which come from two overblown scandals which both were launched by two verifiably false reports from media members. John Tomase flat out making up the SB 36 walkthrough taping and Mortenson reporting Vincent's lies about 11 of 12 balls as a fact. Both were malicious lies.

 

[jgatie]

Oh.

First, let’s take a closer look at the development that caused Deflategate to mushroom from a curiosity into a firestorm. It came from Chris Mortensen of ESPN, who reported that 11 of 12 footballs used by the New England offense during the game against the Colts were underinflated by at least two pounds each.

The information was eventually shown to be false. Mort took the bullet for it, never complaining or calling out his source. (In fact, he clung to the discredited information for months, before his original item at ESPN.com was “clarified” with an acknowledgement that the initial report was incorrect.)

So who was his source? Per a source with knowledge of the situation and as explained in Playmakers, the source for the notorious 11-of-12 footballs report was NFL executive V.P. of football operations Troy Vincent.​

Beginning with the 2015 season, the NFL began conducting air-pressure spot-checks at halftime of games. The numbers were collected and protected, with none of the information ever coming to light.

So what happened to those numbers from the 2015 season? Per a source with knowledge of the situation, and as reported in Playmakers, the NFL expunged the numbers. It happened at the direct order, per the source, of NFL general counsel Jeff Pash.

Why would the league delete the numbers? It’s simple. For cold days, the numbers were too close to the actual numbers generated by the New England footballs at halftime of the playoff game against the Colts. Which means that the numbers generated at halftime of the January 2015 AFC Championship were not evidence of cheating, but of the normal operation of air pressure inside a rubber bladder when the temperature drops. Just as it was expected.​

From Playmakers: NFL general counsel Jeff Pash ordered expungement of 2015 air-pressure measurements - ProFootballTalk

As soon as the NFL announced they would be doing spot checks during the season, I predicted we'll never see that data because the NFL will bury it deeper than the Marianas trench.

 

[Mione134]

Brady got raked over the coals because he has his old cell phones destroyed when he upgrades to a new version and was suspended 4 games for being "generally aware" with no proof. Meanwhile the league is actually purging records that showed that they lied about the evidence? And it came from Troy Vincent? Jeez.


Amazing that the entire reputation of the Patriots has been bogged down with accusations of cheating which come from two overblown scandals which both were launched by two verifiably false reports from media members. John Tomase flat out making up the SB 36 walkthrough taping and Mortenson reporting Vincent's lies about 11 of 12 balls as a fact. Both were malicious lies.

Tomase, Trolling Ben Volin, etc

All aholes

 

[CDJ]

Some of my proudest/most inflammatory work here was on the football board defending Brady/the Pats


Vindicated. Not that I didn’t already know for sure that this was a scam. We all did.

 

[McGarnagle]

Some of my proudest/most inflammatory work here was on the football board defending Brady/the Pats


Vindicated. Not that I didn’t already know for sure that this was a scam. We all did.

Common sense and the ideal gas law explains literally everything that they did find, but they lied and misrepresented it anyway.

And it's all because John Harbaugh is a little bitch. He's the guy who started everything because he had such a stick up his ass over the Pats running no-huddles and changing the eligible receivers reporting at the line that he went and called Pagano in the week in between saying that the balls were slightly deflated in the cold Foxboro weather and to make a big deal of it if they found anything irregular.

 

[Smitty93]

Brady got raked over the coals because he has his old cell phones destroyed when he upgrades to a new version and was suspended 4 games for being "generally aware" with no proof. Meanwhile the league is actually purging records that showed that they lied about the evidence? And it came from Troy Vincent? Jeez.


Amazing that the entire reputation of the Patriots has been bogged down with accusations of cheating which come from two overblown scandals which both were launched by two verifiably false reports from media members. John Tomase flat out making up the SB 36 walkthrough taping and Mortenson reporting Vincent's lies about 11 of 12 balls as a fact. Both were malicious lies.

The cell phone thing is pretty funny knowing how trustworthy the NFL has been the last few years with emails and personal information.

 

[Johnnyduke]

I have clearly been pro Flores but the Texans hired...Lovie Smith. Seriously? What is wrong with this league and these owners? Why did Caserio take this career killing job in Houston?

 

[McGarnagle]

Remember the two years where Houston was actually pretty good but acted all obnoxiously with the lettermen jackets and JJ Watt being all hardo all the time?

The last 4 years of franchise devastation is karma for that.

 

[Gee Wally]

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