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Originally Posted by over the mountain
i think the balls were deflated for every game for a long time. Who knows how long.
The fact that Brady was pissed after the Jets game in the reg season this year bc McNally wasnt able to deflate the balls, to me, means Brady expected every game to have deflated balls. But since the jets dont trust the pats, i imagine it was a lot harder for McNally to duck into a bathroom.
the balls not being deflated was the exception to the rule. this was not a one time thing.
i just feel bad for Robert Kraft. he looks like a schmuck. if he asked brady about this before Kraft did his "demanding an apology" speech ... brady left him out to dry.
the fumble thing is real interesting to me.
in 2006, Brady (and peyton) lobbied the league to allow teams to scuff and provide their own balls. Brady was quoted as saying some QBs like the ball more inflated, some like it less.
The NFL didnt allow teams to set their own PSI.
In 2007, the Patriots started this statistically impossibility (per smart expert ppl) that their fumbles went from around league avg of 1 fumble per 39 plays before 2007 to 1 fumble per 79 plays in 207 and after.
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Just doesn't seem to be that big a deal to me. Lowering ball pressure a pound under the limit just isn't important to the outcome of a game. Besides, what should they do about Aaron Rodgers? He admitted that he over inflated them. So he's a cheater too? Also the Colts balls were under inflated too so I guess Luck is cheating as well.
The fumbling part has no merit to it because there's no proof that this made the backs hold on to the ball better.
In football there are all kinds of small things that teams and players do to bend the rules. Atlanta pumped in crowd noise and they still sucked last year. None of this stuff has a impact on whether a team wins or losses a game.