New England Patriots issue rebuttal
The New England Patroits have created a website and have put out their rebuttal to the Wells Report.
Here is the link http://wellsreportcontext.com
Please let that be true. He's just awful.
premier team and premier player.
The scientist that NE is quoting just happens to co-own a company that Kraft is an investor in so what he says means basically nothing.
Public opinion is on the NFL's side. Kraft might want to look at what happened when the Rangers tried to fight the NHL over their website. Owning an NFL team is not a right. Its only NE fans that are flipping out about this.
Also saying deflator meant losing weight is hilarious.
The NFLPA - as some here may have already seen - filed their semi mic drop on this one earlier today. I would link it except their site is having a spot of trouble at the moment. Among the select quotes from it, however....
"Given the NFL's history of inconsistency and arbitrary decisions in disciplinary matters," the association said in a statement, "it is only fair that a neutral arbitrator hear this appeal."
Notoriously Fisked Losers.
I could see Tom getting suspended for a game or two after reading the original report, but after reading the rebuttal, Goodell has got to go.
Ted Wells comes off as a Major Weasel on his TV appearances lately. He is a whiney little, defensive Bitch.
to NE fans he does. To everyone else Kraft comes off as the one bitching and whining. After all he had no problem with Wells doing the report until it did not go his way. He is Mario Lemieux 2.0.
if you did an experiment with two different pressure gauges that completely uncalibrated and were measuring .5 psi apart, you would be able to draw conclusions that you would say were definitive enough to draw up some of the biggest penalties in the history of the NFL?
Only a total asshat could possibly come to that conclusion. Anyone would half a brain would come to a conclusion more along the lines of:
"The Patriots may have tampered with the footballs. But the lax procedures and faulty equipment that the NFL has in place surrounding air pressure in gameday footballs makes it impossible to draw any conclusions of any significance, other than if the NFL really cares about this, it needs to upgrade both its procedures and air pressure monitoring equipment."
Of coures, a paid whore like Ted Wells would never write something like that after taking his multi-million dollar payment from the NFL. That would be bad for business. A prostitute never tells their client that he is bad in bed.
that the NFL pressure gauge processes, including calibratoin and calibration records, are not ISO 9000 certified.
not everything in his rebuttal is strong, but the points based on Science and Instrumentation are killers to the NFL. He may come off as a whiner, but he is going to come out on top and Goodell will be gone within a year
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No, I think you need to understand science. It explains away why the NFL spent millions of dollars to investigate the equivalent to a minor speeding ticket. Also, exposes Ted Wells as for what he is, a non-independent investigator who was hired to find the Pats guilty. He surely wasn't given all this time to find the Pats innocent which was made pretty clear in his report. A NFL biased, 200 + page of probably's and holes.
This analysis is based solely on circumstancial evidence and not reliable data or anything direct.
would have pretty much stopped the second they found out the NFL was using uncalibrated air pressure gauges that were off by as much as 50% of the acceptable psi range of competition footballs to begin with.
As soon as you know the testing equipment was that far out of whack, you realize that, from a PURELY SCIENTIFIC STANDPOINT, you are never going to be able to draw any definitive conclusion about anything. Even if Brady is the biggest cheater on the planet, without any kind of calibrated measurement of the game balls before and after they were allegedly tampered with, there is no way to know what happened. All you can say is, "Uh, we think you did something. Why? Uh, because."
Which, obviously is a bunch of bullshit. Well, obviously to anyone except for Ted Wells, who was clearly paid millions to turn that bullshit into the anti-Brady crap that it ended up being.
I guess king Roger is so used to peopled bending over to kiss his ass that he expected the Pats to just lie down and take it. He really is a stupid stupid man.
you could consider the sworn testimony of the game official as "documented evidence" so if he claimed to have set the Patriots balls to 12.5 psi with a calibrated gauge, or even with the same damn gauge that the later readings were taken with, then you might have the beginnings of something.
But the fact that all you have is him saying that he set the balls to APPROXIMATELY 12.5 psi on SOME air gauge, but no one knows which one or even if he consistently used the same one for each ball, pretty much immediately renders any conclusions about tampering with the balls moot. Because the only real conclusion you can draw is that the NFL's air pressure monitoring system seriously sucks.
in fact, based on the Wells report, if Brady and Co. were tampering with the balls, it was probably in order to FIX them because the fools the NFL calls officials were setting the air pressures so wrong with thier ridiculously uncalibrated air pressure gauges that Brady felt they needed to fix them to get them back to 12.5 psi. Based on the air pressure gauges in the Wells report, there is NO POSSIBLE WAY the NFL could have been setting up the balls in any sort of proper or consistent manner. NONE.
Maybe instead of the millions Goodell gave to Wells, he could have spent $1000 on Amazon to buy digital air pressure gauges for every stadium in the NFL.
sorry
This will bite him in the ass. This will definitely push people on his side away. If what you contend is true, then you would have no problem allowing an independent third party arbitrate this process.
No way is coward Goodell going to let this sham of a report get in front of someone neutral.