NFL Looking like Jack asses once again

[gmrcharity]

NFL Vice President of officiating, Dean Blandino, held a news conference today in Arizona and according to Jeff Howe of the Boston Herald:

"Blandino said the referee does not log the PSI during the pregame ball check. They're either approved or disapproved."​

What this tells me is that the incompetent pricks probably just squeezed the balls. And that basically changes everything.

If they didn’t log the PSI before the game, then it doesn’t matter what the PSI was at halftime. That also means Bill Belichick, Tom Brady and the Patriots organization are indeed owed an apology from Roger Goodell.

It also means the NFL had their heads up their asses and basically allowed this shitstorm to happen for almost two weeks unnecessarily. How did they not know on Monday morning after the AFC Championship game that the PSI wasn't logged? Oh, they knew....and they just sat on their asses while the media ripped the Patriots to shreds like a bunch of rabid friggin wolves.

What the league should have done was issue a statement saying that they weren't logged and squashed any talk talk about improperly deflated footballs. But they didn't. They just let the shitstorm get bigger and bigger.

Robert Kraft has ever right to be pissed at Roger Goodell. He sat around with his thumb up his ass while the media tarnished the Patriots image and tried to destroy Tom Brady's reputation. The blood is squarely on Goodell's hands.

Knowing how much influence Kraft has in that league, and how pissed he is right now, I would not be surprised to see Goodell gone sooner rather than later.

 

[PatsFanatic]

What a surprise lol

if the officials had no problems with the balls, then no one else should.

 

[slapshot]

hahaha on to the next excuse face)(*^%

 

[gmrcharity]

Im still waiting for the first fact. You guys keep saying excuses but the only so called facts have come from a ESPN commentator and not anyone within the NFL themselves. Guess you believe everything CNN tells you as well.

hahaha on to the next excuse face)(*^%

 

[slapshot]

Im still waiting for the first fact. You guys keep saying excuses but the only so called facts have come from a ESPN commentator and not anyone within the NFL themselves. Guess you believe everything CNN tells you as well.

ok 1 was double lite 10 were lite and one was legal :think2:


and we don't know who inflated or deflated the balls but we have 20 excuse that it wasn't anybody on the Patriots or had anything to do with them but it's the balls they play with :think2:

 

[slapshot]

just cause the Ref doesn't log a PSI doesn't mean they were not checked

it's not rocket science 12.5-13.5 good if he puts a little air in or out no big deal

 

[gmrcharity]

Says who Chris Mortenson? This was already proven wrong by the NFL lol

ok 1 was double lite 10 were lite and one was legal :think2:


and we don't know who inflated or deflated the balls but we have 20 excuse that it wasn't anybody on the Patriots or had anything to do with them but it's the balls they play with :think2:

 

[gmrcharity]

If you are a football fan that feels as though the Patriots have hurt the integrity of your precious sport with the PSI of a game ball, or a member of the media who took to your laptops and the airwaves to editorialize your distrust of Bill Belichick and Tom Brady and Bob Kraft, then you should be mad right now; because the NFL played you like a fiddle.

They made a mockery of you. They dangled the bait in front of you and you snapped it up so quickly and with so much vigor that they haven’t even had to come out and speak to you and answer your questions; because you haven’t even asked them to.

And they knew that you wouldn’t.

They dared you to inundate an entire team of athletes and personnel with accusations based on your lingering distrust of Bill Belichick post-SpyGate; distrust that constantly leaves you calling for his resignation and/or the confiscation of his Super Bowl rings despite the fact that you have failed to exhibit the same vitriol for the also-highly-decorated Jimmy Johnson who admitted to doing the same exact thing.

You went on the radio and the internet and TV and indicted the Patriots based on nothing other than a couple of flimsy reports and an announcement of an investigation. You did that knowing that despite it being enough of a story that Belichick and Brady were at the podium talking to you about it, the NFL had inexplicably failed to even have a conversation with Brady yet. You did that knowing that this is the same exact league and Commissioner whose credibility you’d spent most of the season dismantling.

You wanted and needed so badly to believe that the Patriots couldn’t possibly be the dynasty that has reigned supreme over the last fourteen years that you gave the NFL the benefit of the doubt.

The league that tried to cover up their knowledge of a video of Ray Rice knocking his fiancé unconscious with a punch to the face, then had their Commissioner stand up in front of you and dare you to try to make him pay any consequences for it.

The league that, in the interest of financial gain, ignored and covered up the brutal health implications of playing for them until a beloved Hall of Fame linebacker killed himself and donated his brain to science in the hopes that it may save the lives of other players.

Why has it not also been shoved down your throats that they’re investigating the Browns for illegal use of electronic devices for sideline communication, or that the Chargers were fined in 2012 for cheating throughillegal use of towels with a hidden substance? Where was the viral outrage when the Cowboys and Redskins were fined millions in cap dollars after being found guilty of purposely dumping salaries into the uncapped year in 2010?

Wait, you will love this one. Why didn’t the NFL deem it necessary to make quarterbacks and coaches speak to their accountability and respect for the integrity of the game when just TWO MONTHS AGO they caught the Vikings heating game balls on the sideline in a 12-degree game against the Panthers after they supposedly reminded both teams that it was illegal to do so? (Full credit and big thanks to Pats Krieg for compiling these.)

The NFL’s brilliant leaking of a “possible” Patriots scandal was enough to incite such a frenzy that you immediately repudiated the trustworthiness of Brady; one of the NFL’s pillars of sportsmanship and someone who has never previously been accused of being a cheater (or drug-user or rapist or animal endangerer or criminal of any kind). Not only did you question him but you attacked him. With nearly no provocation and armed with only a vague statement from an NFL spokesperson and unofficial reports from other sources, you labeled Brady a liar and a cheater.

After he told you that he didn’t do anything wrong and stood and answered your questions for 35 minutes, you came on television and arrogantly rattled on about “disappointment” in him; disappointment based on the inflation level of game balls that almost every single current and former player agrees is a non-issue. That consensus is further backed up by the lack of outrage when the aforementioned ball-tampering in Minnesota popped up in November of 2014.

Aaron Rodgers admitted that he hopes his purposely over-inflated balls sneak by the referees’ inspection, and you dismissed that as not cheating. Because you know that the pressure of the balls does not win you NFL games. You aren’t mad about deflation or inflation; you just want to hate the Patriots.

The problem is that if you do think that the Patriots benefit from ball pressure, then Rodgers just told you that he does too. You’re not going to start a war against Rodgers, so you make it about principle. It’s “the principle” of the matter.

Okay. That’s what they were figuring you would do.

So now we are nine days into this thing while fast approaching the Super Bowl, and the NFL has not even had to come out and actually call the Patriots cheaters. Nor have they addressed the issue directly to the media or the public. A spokesperson confirmed that there was an investigation. Then five days ago the NFL released a statement that took three paragraphs to say exactly what the spokesperson had confirmed: that they are investigating. The only notable addition was to note that the Patriots are cooperating fully with said investigation as well as a particularly preposterous paragraph in which they explain the reconnaissance mission in terms more suited for the script of an episode of CSI.

The fact that you so willingly fell into this trap is a testament to just how much power the NFL has over you. They handed you the narrative that they knew you wanted. They figured they could solve the “indignity” that the league had suffered at the hands of the mighty cheating Patriots by throwing the book at the "bad guys”. They’d even do it to Bob Kraft to show you how they don’t play favorites.

What better way to help solve an image issue than align yourself with the masses against a common enemy? Bravo to Goodell. He "cracked down" on cheating without further angering any of the NFL owners that already don't like him.

You bought it hook, line and sinker because you're under the delusion that your team is all clear eyes-full hearts and has somehow been victimized by this. It is one thing to buy into a perfectly timed PR stunt. It’s another thing entirely to fall into the ignorant space between conspiracy and reality that enables you to continuously denounce the NFL and its most successful franchise as cheaters and liars, yet still voraciously consume their product that they've pitted you against.

The only way that this league will change for the better is if you stop letting the NFL take you for such fools. ​

 

[doubledeuce22]

ok 1 was double lite 10 were lite and one was legal :think2:


and we don't know who inflated or deflated the balls but we have 20 excuse that it wasn't anybody on the Patriots or had anything to do with them but it's the balls they play with :think2:

Wrong again... This is getting so tiresome.

 

[slapshot]

Wrong again... This is getting so tiresome.

well I didn't see the NFL press conference that they said it was wrong heck looked on the NFL site can't find it their either :think2:


I don't care just get a laugh out of all the excuses of how the balls lost air

 

[vitterd]

well I didn't see the NFL press conference that they said it was wrong heck looked on the NFL site can't find it their either :think2:


I don't care just get a laugh out of all the excuses of how the balls lost air

It truly is comedy at its finest. Nfl is setting up refs or weather to be the fall guy. They can't have bill and tom holding the trophy and being labeled cheaters. Hurts the shield way to much. Krafts boy Goodell will take care of everything for him

 

[REDEYE]

if you Pats homers are expecting an apology keep on waiting... not coming off my stand that you cheat....once this is all played out maybe Tom can tell us why he's the only NFL that can't tell the difference in the weight of the balls

 

[MikeB]

I hope the Pats receive an extra third round draft pick for having to endure all of this made up bullshit

 

[festeringZit]

if you Pats homers are expecting an apology keep on waiting... not coming off my stand that you cheat....once this is all played out maybe Tom can tell us why he's the only NFL that can't tell the difference in the weight of the balls

So, you're also then going to admit that by the letter of the law, all teams cheat? Hmm?

 

[TheComputerGroup]

The NFL is ready for a new commissioner.......

 

[vitterd]

The NFL is ready for a new commissioner.......

They've been. Unfortunatel, he makes the owners so much money, they won't go against him

 

[vitterd]

if you Pats homers are expecting an apology keep on waiting... not coming off my stand that you cheat....once this is all played out maybe Tom can tell us why he's the only NFL that can't tell the difference in the weight of the balls

The NFL is in complete spin control....they are gonna have a fall guy. Refs, locker room guy or some wacky scientist. No chance they come down on the cheaters. They lose too much money by naming the pats cheaters and game manipulators. I'm hoping they do the right thing but this commish has shown what his priorities are

 

[gmrcharity]

At least 2 of you are going down with the ship lol

 

[vitterd]

At least 2 of you are going down with the ship lol

I know the nfl. I know this commissioner. I know he can't find the pats deflated the ball. It damages the nfl brand way too much. If we've learned anything from this commish...it's been dollars mean more than anything. He will fool the weak minded that will buy anything he sells.

 

[vitterd]

At least 2 of you are going down with the ship lol

I know the nfl. I know this commissioner. I know he can't find the pats deflated the ball. It damages the nfl brand way too much. If we've learned anything from this commish...it's been dollars mean more than anything. He will fool the weak minded that will buy anything he sells.