Posted on 05/12/2015 9:09:10 AM PDT by servo1969
Here are the top-ten reasons why an honest and impartial arbiter will toss the suspension:
#10. Ted Wells Judges 100 Seconds Enough Time to Deflate Balls But 13 Minutes Not Long Enough for Refs to Test Balls?
#9 Wells Report Labels Texts Undermining Case a ‘Joke,’ Texts Buttressing Case Dead Serious
#8. Ted Wells Doesn’t Really Know the Pregame Pressure Levels
#7 After Relying on Walt Anderson’s ‘Best Recollection,’ Wells Disregards It
#6. The Refs and Their Gauges Fluctuated Greatly
#5 The NFL Doesn’t Punish for Ball Tampering
#4. Wells Report Misleadingly Says Pats Shielded Ball Handler from Follow-Up Interview
#3 A Whole Lot of ‘More Probably Than Not’ Adds Up to Unlikely
#2 Wells Cherry Picks Data by Relying on Best Pressure Readings from Colts, Worst Ones from Patriots
#1 NFL Uses Different Ball Pressure Standard for Pats and Colts
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Maybe just because it is BS, Patriots can win throwing wet sponges. Other teams need to man up and play harder. (I am not a football fan, much less Patriot fan, just call it like I see it)
Who cares?
The Noodles For Lunch League has yumped da shark.
Can I interest ya in some unused tickets?
Why would the Office-of-Commissioner want to denigrate the current league champion regarding their “march” to the Finals?
Especially when Pete Carroll made a stupid call at the goal-line in an effort make HIS quarterback MVP. Had they called a running play, RB Marshawn Lynch would have been MVP, running away.
Carroll couldn’t have that happen to HIM. Is Goodell showing bias in punishing a past opponent team (Jets v Pats), protecting Pete Carroll or...both?
Based on my reading of the pressure measurements in the report I know those points are true.
Had they called a running play, RB Marshawn Lynch would have been MVP, running away.
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IIRC, Lynch had a poor record of punching the ball into the end zone on short yardage.
Lynch had a poor record actually punching it in against the defense the Pats lined up in, especially earlier in the same game. Carroll went for the safest pass in the game in order to burn some clock and try to score on the next play. Had his players executed, and the Patriots rookie DB had not, or had bit on the run, he would have been called a genius.
Don’t be so sure the NFL wouldn’t love to see the suspension overturned on appeal. They still get to keep the image of being tough on misbehavior while allowing the golden boy to keep filling the stands and TV audience. I bet they planned it that way.
I will continue to promote that Carroll made the call in an effort to make Russell the MVP.
That is not to say that Lynch was being “disrespected” by Carroll, but my look at what happened was just bad coaching to make Carroll’s QB the hero of the game - over the opposing QB. To make it simple, Carroll was “measuring his pecker” against Belichek’s organ.
Tell me that, with 18 inches and 2 downs to go, Carroll could not have called a QB sneak followed by putting in a fullback to punch it in? Did Carroll mistrust his O-line that much? How many yards did the O-line help Lynch produce up to that point?
Pats will dismantle the four teams they play without Brady - MUCH-improved defense and now they are crazy mad, too. They feed off this stuff.
That's like saying Republicans and the Tea Party have to "man up" and work harder when they are treated unfairly by the IRS.
Brady and Patriots are as unethical and sleazy as the Clintons. Thankfully, in the NFL there is punishment that is non-existent for Democratic politicians.
People who don’t really know what they’re talking about shouldn’t write columns like this.
E.g., they offered to go to whatever convenient location at whatever time to get what would have been for Wells only a second opportunity to interview The Deflator.
Let’s not forget that it was a great defensive play. More times than not, that call would have been successful.
Think again -- the Patriots lost their two pro-bowl caliber cornerbacks to free agency.
Short yardage, seconds on the clock, and one timeout. If you want to maximize your chances then you pass on first down. If it's a completion then you win. If it's an incomplete then you've only burned two or three seconds and you have two more chances with your timeout. Carroll's call was a correct one, it just resulted in the worst possible outcome.
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Yes, a truly “SuperBowl” defensive play and actually Butler should have been MVP because of that single play: it was a win-lose proposition when he stepped in front (risking an interference call). Unfortunately, I didn’t have a media MVP vote.
Still, I think Carroll thought the win was his and that he needed to rub Brady’s nose in it by making Russell MVP.
The Stupid...it burns, it burns.
Well, they do. Most times they roll over and play dead or morph into GOPe drones.
:: The truth is, you never want to do what everyone expects. ::
Yet you conflate Pete Carroll with Vince Lombardi. The same Vince Lombardi who coined the phrase “4-yards and a cloud of dust.”
Vince was never one to “never want to do what everyone expects”. Vince would tell you and everyone in the stands that he was coming up the middle and dare you stop it.
Nope, Pete was boosting himself by boosting his QB.
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