Sooo, the NFL says "no precedent for deflate gate"? Really? Ask the 2009 Jets...

[Rex Racer]

This is a league that has bent over backwards for Kraft prior to this incident

 

[Rex Racer]

Apples and Apples

If Seattle wins the SB and Russ Wilson is found to be cheating, he gets the same 4 game suspension, people who dont think so, are Tom Brady apologists

It wouldnt be as big a story, because not as many fans and media would be running to protect Wilsons' legacy, and Wilson may not threaten to take it to court, but he would be getting the same 4 game suspension

No.

25K fine, if that and a 3 line blurb in the back of the sports pages in Seattle.

 

[Center Ice]

Its Big for ANY Super Bowl winning QB......Why is it you guys are missing that point?.......When the NFL has evidence that a team may have won a SB because it skirted the rules, they are gonna take a lot closer look at it than if Ryan Lindley cheated in a meaningless Week 13 game.........Do you really think if Seattle won that game, and it was found out Russell Wilson cheated in some way, this wouldnt be as big a deal? Thats crazy......I still would love an explanation why it benefits the NFL to damage the reputation of Tom Brady? Why is it that the NFL would be after the Patriots? This is a league that has bent over backwards for Kraft prior to this incident

I don't think it's a case of the NFL being on a Brady witch hunt as much as I think it's a bad commissioner trying to recover from his own incompetence at handing out punishments. Coming down hard on Brady costs him nothing if it gets overturned in a court. It's the thing that could save his job in the eyes of the other owners. This is coming to a head though. He's not the only guy out there who could make the owners money if the NFL keeps getting a black eye on punishments.

 

[Center Ice]

As Joe Montana said, "everybody's trying to gain an edge".

If there's no consistency in punishments, you lose control very quickly.



Aaron Rodgers likes his footballs overinflated | ProFootballTalk

Aaron Rodgers likes his footballs overinflated
Posted by Mike Florio on January 20, 2015, 5:47 PM EDT

AP
Now that an investigation has commenced regarding whether the Patriots indulged Tom Brady’s preference for deflated footballs, the question becomes whether other teams do the same thing.

Via Mike Reiss of ESPNBoston.com, at least one possibly does. Reiss notes that, during the November 30 game between the Packers and Patriots on CBS, Jim Nantz and Phil Simms discussed the preference by quarterback Aaron Rodgers for overinflated balls.

“‘I like to push the limit to how much air we can put in the football, even go over what they allow you to do and see if the officials take air out of it,'” Simms said Rodgers told them before the game.

Simms pointed out that Rodgers is the exception.

“Everybody wants it smaller and soft, so they can dig their fingers into,” Simms said. “[Rodgers is] such a feel thrower. You can tell. The one touchdown he threw down the field to the tight end is such feel; then he flicks it. That shows you he just has great control of it, with his fingers and hand.”

On his weekly radio show with ESPN Milwaukee, Rodgers confirmed that he prefers the balls to be overinflated, and that he doesn’t think there should be a maximum air pressure.

“It’s not an advantage when you have a football that’s inflated more than average air pressure. We’re not kicking these footballs,” Rodgers said, via Rob Demovsky of ESPN.com.

Look for more anecdotes to emerge regarding the things teams do to make the footballs the way their quarterbacks like them. While on one hand it takes some of the sting out of the possibility that the Patriots broke the rules, on the other hand it’s yet another case where, at a time when everyone may be getting away with it, the Patriots are the ones who got caught.

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[Rock Strongo]

As Joe Montana said, "everybody's trying to gain an edge".

If there's no consistency in punishments, you lose control very quickly.



Aaron Rodgers likes his footballs overinflated | ProFootballTalk

Aaron Rodgers likes his footballs overinflated
Posted by Mike Florio on January 20, 2015, 5:47 PM EDT

AP
Now that an investigation has commenced regarding whether the Patriots indulged Tom Brady’s preference for deflated footballs, the question becomes whether other teams do the same thing.

Via Mike Reiss of ESPNBoston.com, at least one possibly does. Reiss notes that, during the November 30 game between the Packers and Patriots on CBS, Jim Nantz and Phil Simms discussed the preference by quarterback Aaron Rodgers for overinflated balls.

“‘I like to push the limit to how much air we can put in the football, even go over what they allow you to do and see if the officials take air out of it,'” Simms said Rodgers told them before the game.

Simms pointed out that Rodgers is the exception.

“Everybody wants it smaller and soft, so they can dig their fingers into,” Simms said. “[Rodgers is] such a feel thrower. You can tell. The one touchdown he threw down the field to the tight end is such feel; then he flicks it. That shows you he just has great control of it, with his fingers and hand.”

On his weekly radio show with ESPN Milwaukee, Rodgers confirmed that he prefers the balls to be overinflated, and that he doesn’t think there should be a maximum air pressure.

“It’s not an advantage when you have a football that’s inflated more than average air pressure. We’re not kicking these footballs,” Rodgers said, via Rob Demovsky of ESPN.com.

Look for more anecdotes to emerge regarding the things teams do to make the footballs the way their quarterbacks like them. While on one hand it takes some of the sting out of the possibility that the Patriots broke the rules, on the other hand it’s yet another case where, at a time when everyone may be getting away with it, the Patriots are the ones who got caught.

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dirts gonna think youre from boston now

tisk tisk tisk

 

[NEhomer]

The Rodgers analogy falls woefully short. He didn't say he modified them after approval and Tom's not accused of handing an official an under inflated ball to check.

 

[Center Ice]

dirts gonna think youre from boston now

tisk tisk tisk

HA!! Nope! Just don't like Goodell's inability to effectively discipline the league.

GO EAGLES! Yeah I said it!!

 

[Rock Strongo]

HA!! Nope! Just don't like Goodell's inability to effectively discipline the league.

GO EAGLES! Yeah I said it!!

this whole thing has become a joke on so many levels, and its the silly people who refuse to see it (not that they cant, they just refuse to accept it) are past "comical" and onto "sad".

 

[Rock Strongo]