NFL

[stevewizzle]

So, in 2006 Brady and Manning petition the league to have each team supply its own footballs for each game.  Then since 2007 something very odd has been happening.

Deflated: the Statistically Impossible Patriots Fumble Record

Coincidence?

yo i got some 9/11 footage you got to see thats gonna make you really think

[Julian, Bespoke SEXPERT]

yo i got some 9/11 footage you got to see thats gonna make you really think

I'm mostly dismissive of the whole ballghazi thing, but to what would you attribute the Patriots being several standard deviations from the mean better the 2nd lowest fumbling team? That running backs corp that no one has ever heard of?

[vansmack]

Actually, they've been "dating" for 2.5 years.  They went public 11 months after his soulmate's death.

I will not acknowledge any more blasphemy on this matter for 14.5 more years.

[sweetcell]

the argument is convincing if you accept that corrolation = causation.  the easy thing to say is "well what else explains the change in fumbles" - dunno, but i'm not convinced it's having a little less air in there.  i would love to hear from a RB how helpful it is having a ball at 11.5 psi instead of 12.5.  i suspect it gives you a slightly better grip... but i maintain my (completely unfounded) belief that it doesn't account for that sharp a drop in fumbles.  now maybe other things they started doing to the ball (scuffing, rubbing, etc) might explain it, but i just don't see how air pressure explains it.

[stevewizzle]

yo i got some 9/11 footage you got to see thats gonna make you really think

I'm mostly dismissive of the whole ballghazi thing, but to what would you attribute the Patriots being several standard deviations from the mean better the 2nd lowest fumbling team? That running backs corp that no one has ever heard of?

ben jarvis-green ellis never fumbled in NE, and he also never fumbled in college.

i attribute they rarely fumbled the ball to the fact that they had running backs that never fumbled the football. and as far as brady goes... he gets rid of the ball quick, especially from 2008-2013 where they focused on quick passes to guys like wes welker.

also, who ever said carrying a deflated football as a running back equals better ball security?

[hutch]

people just want to hate on the Pats


 

[ggw]

Actually, they've been "dating" for 2.5 years.  They went public 11 months after his soulmate's death.

I will not acknowledge any more blasphemy on this matter for 14.5 more years.

Bizarre video shows billionaire NFL owner, 71, helping comely bikini-clad gal pal, 32, audition for 'acting job as a pole-dancer'

[hutch]

I didn't know about this rule but I'm surprised its taken this long to establish what is legal and what is not...


http://www.csnne.com/blog/patriots-talk/nfl-says-solder-touchdown-play-was-illegal?p=ya5nbcs&ocid=yahoo

[shemptiness]

I didn't know about this rule but I'm surprised its taken this long to establish what is legal and what is not...


http://www.csnne.com/blog/patriots-talk/nfl-says-solder-touchdown-play-was-illegal?p=ya5nbcs&ocid=yahoo

Unpossible.  The Patriots don't do anything illegal.

[DeathFromAbove1979]

They're going to looking at the eligible receiver thing in the off season. Patriots did it all season long and it tip toes the line of legality. It's not illegal as long as they have 5 receivers reporting that they are eligible, but if they aren't already designated receivers then they have to do it each play, like a lineman or QB.

The NFL is stupid.

[ggw]

Physicists Prove Pats Didn't Deflate

[Got Haggis?]

They're going to looking at the eligible receiver thing in the off season. Patriots did it all season long and it tip toes the line of legality. It's not illegal as long as they have 5 receivers reporting that they are eligible, but if they aren't already designated receivers then they have to do it each play, like a lineman or QB.

The NFL is stupid.

I thought they didn't do it all season long, they started doing it against the ravens in the playoffs

[Julian, Bespoke SEXPERT]

They're going to looking at the eligible receiver thing in the off season. Patriots did it all season long and it tip toes the line of legality. It's not illegal as long as they have 5 receivers reporting that they are eligible, but if they aren't already designated receivers then they have to do it each play, like a lineman or QB.

The NFL is stupid.

I thought they didn't do it all season long, they started doing it against the ravens in the playoffs

That was my understanding as well.

[Julian, Bespoke SEXPERT]

I didn't know about this rule but I'm surprised its taken this long to establish what is legal and what is not...


http://www.csnne.com/blog/patriots-talk/nfl-says-solder-touchdown-play-was-illegal?p=ya5nbcs&ocid=yahoo

This is the most ridiculous thing ever. Illegal is such an inflammatory word, even if by the strictest definition thereof its accurate. A player was lined up in the wrong position. That happens 2-3 times a game for every team; it's a five-yard penalty for illegal formation or ineligible man down field.

There is a gaping chasm between committing one of the 12 or so penalties committed in every football game since the invention of the sport and "doing something illegal" or "cheating". By that hyperbolic logic, pass interference, delay of game, a false start, and offensive holding are "cheating."

If you want to, then get down on the referees for missing a call, but even the most butthurt New England hater has to find this ridiculous.

[DeathFromAbove1979]

They're going to looking at the eligible receiver thing in the off season. Patriots did it all season long and it tip toes the line of legality. It's not illegal as long as they have 5 receivers reporting that they are eligible, but if they aren't already designated receivers then they have to do it each play, like a lineman or QB.

The NFL is stupid.

I thought they didn't do it all season long, they started doing it against the ravens in the playoffs

I could be mistaken. They could have just pulled the regular "ineligible man down field" and I lumped it in.