An Educated Guess at the Patriots’ Punishment
The results of a nearly four-month investigation stated that it is more probable than not that the New England Patriots personnel intentionally deflated footballs to gain an advantage in the A.F.C. championship game. Commissioner Roger Goodell said Troy Vincent, the leagues executive vice president for football operations, and his team would consider what steps to take in light of the report, both with respect to possible disciplinary action and to any changes in protocols. In 2007, the league fined the Patriots $250,000 and Coach Bill Belichick $500,000 and ordered the team to forfeit a first-round pick after a Patriots staff member was discovered videotaping signals used by Jets coaches. (Responses, which were emailed to the N.F.L. reporter Ken Belson, were edited.)
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They should at the very least apply the suspension on Oct. 18th I'm thinkin'!
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That is the takeaway from the whole thing, arbitrariness. Kinda, sorta, rules, that maybe kinda, sorta need to be looked into.....
Yeah, not much gonna happen probably, because well, the NFL is again caught flat-footed.
Each team has their own balls to use, so only one team was using the deflated balls. Even then. I'm fairly certain that the advantage was nominal as the Patriots woulda clobbered the Colts with a wilted noodle that day.
Yep. I'm thinking that there will be some adjustment to degrade teams ability to manipulate the ball.
Yes, I guess (?) for some. It's seems to be a very subjective thing with players having differing ideals. Brady is known to like his on the lighter side ( I know, what a racists right!).
I came up with a solution when this all started to break for the NFL. simple solution is the NFL supplies the balls for any and all playoff and bowl games , controlled strictly by the refs and not the teams , regular season play is as it is now so the QB's get to manipulate and condition the balls the way they have been and every QB does so , some like them new out of the box , some like them roughed up to a degree, some even have regimes they put game balls through before they will use them.
What NFL control of bowl and playoff balls means is the QB's will have to bring their season use balls into conformity with what the NFL will be supplying during bowls and playoffs.
Not bad. It also gives the players room to work that out in the meantime.