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To: Leto
Early in the article, he cites how Brady fumbles for 2012-2014 were .3 per 100 plays better than the NFL average...close to the Falcons, Broncos, Bengals, Saints...of course...he doesn't explain how the Pats' fumble ratio is so much better than the Falcons, Broncos, Bengals, & Saints...especially since both the Falcons & Saints play indoors where no weather impacts half of their games.

Beyond that, let's take that .3 per 100 plays & run with it for a few minutes.

In the team rushing stats I was looking at for an earlier post, the Pats were rushing the ball about 440 times to usually upper 400s and a few times early 500 times per season 2007-2014.

They are well-balanced team...so without taking the time to look @ actual stats...let's double that...let's say they run anywhere between 900 - 1,000 non punt offensive plays were season.

Let's take the higher number: 1,000...So the difference .3 per 100 plays = a grand total of 3 less fumbles that Brady made in 2012-2014 than the average NFL QB.

So you're telling us that THE PRIMARY argument this guy gives accounts for a grand total of just 3 fumbles vs. the rest of the NFL teams per season...and THIS is the "blowing up" argument???

Blown up? Sure...as in this author's windbag...!!!

Yes, Brady did cut in half his fumbles starting 2007 (vs. 2001-2006).

While itself sounding suspicious, I don't try to analyze QB fumbles because some are bad snaps, and QBs hold the ball distinctly than other plays.

30 posted on 05/14/2015 12:23:47 PM PDT by Colofornian
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To: Colofornian

They talk about it directly, read the whole article, moreover they compare the fumble rates for home and away games when the opposing teams handle the balls, guess what no difference.

BTW since the science as per the Nobel Prize winning Chemist, the Pats Fan Physicist and the Head-smart experiments prove no one deflated the footballs.

What it also showed is that the NFL process for certifying the game balls is a joke using $2 pressure gauges that vary by almost.4 psi to a spec of 1 psi max requirement. Just move on You got nothing, can’t wait to get Kensil, Wells Goodell, Colts and Ravens officials into discovery and under oath.


33 posted on 05/14/2015 12:38:27 PM PDT by Leto
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