Let Brady deflate balls
http://mmqb.si.com/2015/05/08/nfl-inflating-footballs-air-pressure-rule/
This makes sense to me, let each team set their own psi. Aside from that, the range is 12.5 psi to 13.5 psi. To what extent did the Patriot balls exceed the range? If their balls were at, say, 12 psi or even 11.5 psi, percentage-wise a negligable violation, like a $100 tax error vs a $100,000 tax error. I don't condone violating the rules, but perspective needs to be applied. Also, Brady and the Pats are likely targets for several obvious reasons, Brady in particular. Like in golf, some rules are just plain stupid, like the penalty if your ball moves from an outsitde influence while addressing it. Forgive me if this was discussed ad nauseam before.
It was.
where you say "I forgive you."
but I am really sick of hearing about Brady's balls.
If they are then shame on Gisele....
Tom could deflate my balls anytime he wants
a number, pal.
We can't all share Brady!
If I was married to Giselle, I'd have the same problem
But really, the worst rule in golf is dropping in a bunker if your ball is in casual water. Anytime you drop in a bunker, you will plug.
No matter where you set the boundary, someone will push it.
For the love of God, can the universe please just move on?
Agree on moving on, but how does eliminating the boundary not solve the problem of someone pushing the boundary?
The point is that the NFL allows (as they should) QBs to tailor the football to their liking yet they rather arbitrarily set inflation limits. Aaron Rodgers wants to go above them. Tom Brady apparently wants to go below them. I'm sure there is a wide range in between. If the NFL would just allow QBs to also dictate air pressure, then this wouldn't be an issue.
George did not need nearly 300 pages to explain "significant shrinkage", as I recall, but in the case of the Patriots and Tom Brady, I would be surprised if much more than some finger wagging and Goodell doing the two-fingered "I'm watching you" gesture came of this. I personally tend to think that this another case of mountains being made from mole hills, but then sometimes they do run thin on topics on sports broadcast and print media in the middle of May...
There is actual talk of a suspension for Brady. I doubt it but you never know with the jackoff commissioner they have now.
when you have no proof that they did anything wrong?
There is a preponderance of truth and the NFL can do what they want. I think a $25K fine, what the rulebook prescribes for doctoring a football, should be sufficient, but he'll probably get a couple games suspension. I don't agree with that. They have a fine in the rulebook, they shouldn't create additional punishments after the fact.
Pineda got 10 games for using pine tar, a second time, but he only missed 1 start out of 32. That's the equivalent of suspending Brady for a half. Anything more than a game would just be ridiculous pandering by the NFL to the non-NE fans.
You misread the rule book. It clearly does not limite the penalty to a $25,000 fine.
or even an MSU QB would be smart enough to figure out the affects of psi on the charachteristics of ball flight?
I don't know, but they might be smart enough to figure out the effect on the characteristics.
Nah. This is a dumb-ass rule, and I can't imagine anyone but the most "slappy" of fans to care about the school of the QB involved.
If Tom Brady slammed Giselle's head in an elevator he would be disowned by the reasonable part of our base. If he is a couple of psi off an inflation guideline, I think it's reasonable to let him live on.
Did they come out defending Ray Rice?
In this instance that isn't true. You aren't going to go on to say a UCLA blog and see people blindly defending the Patriots.
Not a question worth asking twice. Though I might get both Rutgers fans to answer each post.
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Maybe. If it was Ohio, we'd be all over it. If it was washington State, I doubt we'd care about the psi in their balls much.
The refs touch the ball in between every play. Isn't that all that needs to be said?
No, What are you saying? More needs to be said....Should/Could the ref notice the difference? I wonder how big of a difference X psi in/out of a ball can be noticed.
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Off with his head!
Ser Ilyn Payne.
The easiest and best solution is to have one set of official footballs. Stop the doctoring by individual teams. If they can play with the same set of balls in almost every other sport, I think they can manage in football. They need to get rid of the rule change in 2006 that allowed each team to provide their own footballs.
We might as well get rid of all outdoor stadiums and play all games indoors then.
The only sport where a team provides their own ball? Baseball's aren't doctored before a pitcher throws. Basketballs seem to be provided by officials, same with soccer. If this is such an issue for the NFL, then make it mandatory for officials to provide the footballs. Problem solved.
True, but baseball has similar issues nevertheless:
not have been fondling his balls. He should "self-impose" a four game leave or suspension without pay, apologize, be like "my bad, I wanted perfect balls and I should not have done this" and this whole thing would go away.
There is no "competitive advantage" problem really, they killed the Colts and played with legal footballs against the Seahawks. There is no evidence this happened before the Colts game. He should get in front of this. The denials are not helping him.
Somewhere the lovely Bridget Moynahan is laughing her ass off.
know if an "apology" from the league is order but I agree that this issue has become inflated and is really not the deal it is being into.
I think that the NFL is feeling pressured to do something here. They don't want the rule book to be perceived as filled with hot air.