Please Explain This To Me About Brady

[khiladi]

Bellicheat had to do this PC suddenly, because the NFL essentially came out today and confirmed like two hours ago the balls were deflated by human hands.

NFL Network is trying to spin this PC of BB as noble of him and out of the norm, for the integrity of the game. I was chuckling on their spin.

Sorry, but Bellicheat was anything but noble. Dude was hostile.

I guarantee you the NFL has sent out memos to players telling them what to say.

 

[khiladi]

http://nypost.com/2015/01/22/ex-players-react-bradys-cluelessness-unbelievable/

“Sean Payton did not cheat,” Aikman said of the Saints coach who was suspended an entire year. “There was nothing that Sean Payton and the Saints did that was illegal. And they did not give themselves a competitive edge.

“Now twice, under Bill Belichick and possibly a third time, they’ve cheated and given themselves an advantage. To me, the punishment for the Patriots and/or Bill Belichick has to be more severe than what the punishment was for the New Orleans Saints.”

After a season filled with scandals — including Goodell’s indefensible decision to initially suspend Ray Rice two games in the former Ravens running back’s domestic violence case — Aikman thinks enormous pressure is on Goodell, especially due to his friendship with Patriots owner Robert Kraft.

“There’s a lot of coaches and a lot of people that look upon the Patriots as a team that’s been favored in some of the things that have happened — I thought the punishment he got for Spygate was a slap on the wrist, was next to nothing — so we’ll see,” Aikman said.

 

[MRV52]

Poor analogy. A better one is the Vikings. They got caught tampering with the ball against Carolina. They got a letter of warning. So the Patriots should get the same.

No way, NFL is going to make an example out of them. This is not the first time the Patriots have been disciplined and the NFL will make sure they keep in line in the future.

 

[Spectre]

I think Josh McDaniels is behind it all (OC and qb coach). He strikes me as such a shiesty type. Why hasn't his name come up in all of this? Because the coach and qb have assumed a public position to deflect all questions and protect their guy. That's my take- I'm sticking with it.

 

[irishline]

33 fumbles for an entire team in a 5 year period simply does not make sense. It sounded too unrealistic and I did not believe it. I know some people believe "If it's on the internet then it must be true) but ya see, I am not a dullard who believes everything he reads on the internet. If something seems suspicious to me, I usually verify it independently before i believe it.

Sure enough I checked pro football reference.com and they say the Patriots fumbled 108 times since 2010, not 33.

33 =/= 108.
And that chart proves absolutely nothing.

The 33 number you got from that article refers to fumbles lost, not total fumbles. The calculations are correct, its just the labelling for the chart he pictured is incorrect. The next chart in that article correctly states "fumbles lost" as 33. The article keeps bouncing between the two and it is difficult to follow plus the keep referencing the wrong thing. And according to pro football reference they lost 4 (2014), 9 (2013), 8 (2012), 5 (2011), and 5 (2010). That would be 31 offensive fumbles lost since 2010. I will assume the other two are special teams since they don't track those on that site. By the way pro football reference totals for Patriots fumbles since 2010 is 81 not the 108 you used (9 in 2010, 15 in 2011, 14 in 2012, 27 in 2013, and 16 in 2014). Not sure where you got that total from unless you were using their opponents numbers (so you may be looking at something I am not).

Here is the link to the entire article the chart was from for you:

http://www.sharpfootballanalysis.com/blog/?p=2932

And before you say the used fumbles lost for the Patriots (increasing their number) and fumbles per play for the rest of the teams (lowering theirs), I looked at a few others (including the Cowboys) and the Patriots would have finished dead last in per play if they made that mistake. It was reference incorrectly but they used apples to apples for the teams I looked at.