anyone? Multiple NFL QBs have tried and said they can’t. A couple claim they can.
It is a very notable difference below about 9 PSI. 10+, it’s all just “hard”. For most people, it’s like differentiating brass fom granite by squeezing it...with your bare hand. There’s a huge difference in hardness, but not for your flesh.
10 psi vs 12 psi is very noticeable, don’t believe me that a 20% psi is not noticeable?
Please go deflate your tires to 25lbs of pressure and tell me you can’t tell the difference.
The claim it can’t be noticed is nonsense. A 20%-30% pressure differential is huge, and that’s what we are talking about here. Claiming its just a lb or two is comical. It shows just how gullible and mathematically ignorant far too many folks are.
Again, if it was a bunch of average joes out on a sunday afternoon that had no frame of reference to know what a properly inflated ball should feel like, I’d agree with you, they probably could play with a 10lb ball and not know any better.. but to claim folks who spend their careers doing it can’t tell a 20-30% pressure differential is comical beyond belief.
To claim its just a lb or two, shows complete ignorance of what exactly PSI is, it doesn’t matter the number of lbs PSI delta, what matter is the percentage difference, and to try to claim a 20% pressure difference isn’t immediately noticeable by anyone who is familiar with the proper pressure is a joke of a claim.
I am sure no big name will wind up being punished for it, they’ll find some low level patsy to lay the blame on in the end... and the pats would have won the game anyway... so it didn’t impact the final outcome other than the scoreboard, but there is no doubt cheating too place, and the claim that you handled the equipment all game, knowing or at least should know after how many years in the league what a properly inflated ball feels like, but didn’t notice is just a flat out ludicrous claim.
How much you want to bet, if they can track down the individual balls, that that 12th ball that was properly inflated, was the one they used to kick with??? I would money down on that without question, because those extra 2 lbs of pressure are going to equate to a lot in the distance of any kick made.
I have no idea who ordered the balls deflated, and frankly don’t care, but the claim a professional QB with a long career in the NFL didn’t notice the balls were under inflated by 20% all game? Yea, doesn’t pass the smell test.