What is your opinion on "Deflategate"?

[Nuke87654 1,849]

Then you should probably chill. no one knows exactly whats happening. I do mean NONE. not even the guy that did the report knows anything. Its his opinion that they are looking for a fall guy. He has no proof of that like they have no proof the Patriots cheated. Furthermore I never liked them as individuals. Ive seen their conduct and I havent liked it at all ever since I started watching football at 15. that was over a decade ago. I still see the same arrogant crap from them. So what they win? So do the Steelers. frankly They dont conduct themselves like the Patriots at all which allows me to respect the team. The Patriots may win games but I dont see them as champions in the least. Just my opinion.

I don't think anything questioning the integrity of a team is pointless. If they prove the Patriots innocent good for them but none can deny the balls were tampered with. That's why this investigation is so controversial. The balls didn't lie. So who is?

 

Adam Schefter, who is considered to have among the deepest web of sources within the NFL itself, is saying that the league is struggling to find the patriots of wrong doing. This is further supported by how the NFL has yet to show any evidence of the Patriots doing anything wrong and of how Bill Belicheck and Tom Brady flat out declared themselves innocent of any crime which is especially telling of BB as he admitted to breaking the rules with Spygate but yet he's declaring himself innocent of deflate gate this time. If they did anything wrong, why would they try to risk damning themselves even more by lying and why would BB suddenly decide to lie about a broken rule when he had little difficulty doing it previously?

 

How am I supposed to chill when the whole media is attacking my favorite team's integrity based on a hunch rather than any actual evidence. It's the equivalent of being falsely accused of a crime that you know you didn't do anything wrong but yet become somebody's word is holding against you, and you can't really go out without somebody calling you out for your crime. It's unfair and the media should learn to behave themselves rather than try to immediately jump on a juicy story and attack someone based simply on a word or letting their bias cloud their judgement.

 

What conduct does New England do that has you so upset over?

Edited January 26, 2015 by Nuke87654

[ghostfacekiller39 23,860]

Given my last post was on mobile and I hold myself to a certain standard, I want to point out the faults I see in the claims being made against the Pats:

 

• The referees themselves. They held the footballs the Colts used hundreds of times that night and they held the footballs the Patriots held hundreds of times that night. Why didn't this come up during the game, especially when it's clamed that 11 of the 12 footballs the Patriots used were under inflated enough to make a notable difference in the way the game was played? If there was as big of a discrepancy as claimed, I have trouble believing that the refs couldn't pick it up when they were holding the footballs that the respective teams used.
• The potential marketing scheme. The Patriots of this day and age are like the Oakland Raiders back when they were the badguys of the league and had guys like Ted Hendrickson and Ken Stabler and Gene Upshaw. The Patriots are commonly looked upon as the villains of modern football, in other words. The fact that the Seahawks have become a likable team with a quarterback like Russel Wilson, who is the ultimate upstanding citizen off the field, after struggling for most of their lifespan as a team is something that can create a good guys vs. bad guys match. The Seahawks, minus Richard Sherman, are a very likable team who are easy to cast as the good guys, especially when NE is already commonly typecast as the villains. This is also the biggest football game of the year, so building hype is going to get people to turn on the televisions and increase the money flow. Money makes the world go 'round, after all.
• The lopsided score of the Pats-Colts game. The Colts played horribly, I hate to say it. That just wasn't their day, and the final score of 45 - 7 reflected that. The Pats played excellently and the Colts played a rather mediocre game. So why bring this to such media attention of it wasn't solely to build hype? As Nuke stated, there is pretty much no evidence against the Patriots, teams have been caught doing this numerous times before, and Belichick and Brady's press conferences were extremely convincing, at least to me. So, not only was the game a total blowout that was honestly a very boring playoff game that embarrassed the accusing team, but it's being given extreme amounts of media attention leading up to the Super Bowl in spite of no evidence proving the Patriot's guilt and the fact this has been discovered happening several times before in the NFL. So a rather dull and insignificant game followed by a team that plays the NFL's villain and the extreme amount of attention and press conferences being given to this purported crime.

I'm sorry, but this whole thing smells like BS to me and just comes across as a scandal created by the NFL Front Office in order to bring more attention to the Super Bowl in order to maximize the profit they make off of the biggest game of the year, especially after last year's Super Bowl, which is commonly cited as being one of the most boring ones in recent memory.

 

Just my thoughts on the matter

[Nuke87654 1,849]

According to Sharks of Vegas, ten of the eleven balls have been confirmed to have been in the 11.5 psi range leading to all the plausibility that weather may have indeed been the factor.

[Red Cedar 1,408]

I think the thing that amazed me most about Deflategate is learning that the NFL doesn't supply and monitor the game balls at all times through an official game.

 

I don't think there's another pro sport on Earth where that would be the norm.

[Scrubbed user 3,416]

They didn't cheat, they just "misinterpreted the rules".

[GenderIsAnIllusion 2,177]

You know if this country put half as much energy into policy, and making this country better as they did on sports, we might get stuff done.