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Matt Cassell exceled while Brady was hurt. I just hope they don't find Brady's replacement for when he retires. Im tired of seeing the Pats always so damn good. I can see it now, another Packer type of situation. Farve retires and the Rodgers era begins!!! Meanwhile the Bears still don't have the QB we need!

Pathetic????? That's funny..... 99.9% of Pats fans are saying the penalty is too harsh and you think me asking this is Pathetic, you are a real gem!!!!

You are right, the punishment is about Lying and breaking a rule. I posted this pointing out that the actual rule broken is not that big of deal at the same time I am not saying breaking the rule is not a big deal. Deflating a ball = no big deal Breaking a rule = big deal Lying about it= big deal

MTV inflated two balls =1 at 12.5psi and 1 at 10.5 psi. A difference of 2 PSI. From the Wells report the average of all the balls deflated was 11.10, leaving a difference of 1.4 psi. Watch the video to see for your self. http://www.mtv.com/news/2059188/deflate-ga...ball-challenge/ Using a bigger difference of inflation (.60 more) than the average deflated ball used by the Pats MTV reported more people could not tell the difference.

Joe Theisman's view on it http://www.sportingnews.com/nfl/story/2015...fc-championship Eli Manning's view on it http://national.suntimes.com/nfl/7/72/1100...lated-footballs Interesting they both have different views, Jim says he couldn't tell a difference and Eli said he could tell a difference but Eli wouldn't say there was an advantage just a difference.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown...-233900364.html Here is an article from yahoo that has an interesting take on it.

If this was the Bears would you want such stiff penalty? Robert Kraft is not from the Kraft Mac N Cheese Family.... just thought you may want to know that.

Roger will never under- suspend anyone ever again.......... Every NFL player should thank Ray Rice.....

That is harsh.

I almost posted the same thing but almost threw up in my mouth........Figured I would not remind everyone else.....Im still surprised be played after the Bears...I think for the Skins.

He was drafted to play a 4-3 Linebacker position. Maybe his skill set is not conducive to any of the 3-4 spots. Best of luck to him, hopefully he gets a shot somewhere.

Did Tom Brady and the Pats play better against the Colts in the first half or second half???????????????? Both half's played on the same day with the same weather conditions. Pats had Under inflated balls in the first half = Colts had perfectly inflated balls Pats had perfectly inflated balls in the second half= Colts had 3 balls under the 12.5 PSI rule in the second half from post game inspection

Let me state this CLEARLY = If Tom Brady made those guys deflate the balls then I think less of him and think it was cheating. He would be wrong for it. The rest of this post it only talking about the notion that Tom Brady gets an advantage or somehow becomes better I imagine that Tom Brady prefers a softer ball that's it, it doesn't mean he performs better. He clearly used a 12.5 inflated ball in the 2nd half of the Colts game and looked like Tom Brady. Aaron Rodgers has stated that he prefers a overinflated ball. He still has to use a 12.5 ball, does Rodgers look or perform any worse with the 12.5 psi ball??? Before the PSI rule was in place Im sure every QB played games with balls over inflated and under inflated. The great ones are great with whatever ball they have I their hand, no matter what the PSI is. As far as your what if's, lets flip it= do you think the 1 pound less of PSI could have a negative affect on the Patriots??? What if the ball is thrown and because its a pound less in PSI it sails a hair higher than it would have had it had 12.5 psi, with doing so it gets tipped by a Pats WR and then is intercepted. Or lets say the ball is fumbled and is bouncing around on the ground and due to it having one pound less of psi it bounces favorably to the team playing the Pats. In both the instances I just gave it could negatively affect the Pats, do I think the pound PSI would have that much affect, NO. But people seem to think it will affect the game is some manner. In the same way as you say it can positively affect the Pats and it could negatively affect the Pats.

To piggyback what you have wrote, with where the NFL is today and going in regards to player safety having a solid tackler like Mundy will be better than a big hitter who misses. Big hitter will get flagged more often for helmet to helmet.

From Jason's post I can't convince you. I'm telling you it's almost imperceptible. And it's funny because I had an Arena game recently where the visiting coach complained about the PSI level of the balls. He thought they were over-inflated. I told him I'd look into it while thinking of rolling my eyes. Guess what? The balls almost all fell within the appropriate range, some a tiny bit more, some a tiny bit less. If I had juggled them and then tossed one back, you couldn't have told the difference. That room full of officials with roughly 50 years experience combined couldn't tell, and multiple are in major college BCS officiating. This is a perfect example of why I am saying this really isnt a big deal. It is a big deal IF Tom Brady made them do it, i get that.

You need a good laugh just read your post of what if's. I have already stated that I think they should be punished, agree that there should be a rule for psi. I do believe that if Tom Brady told them to deflate the balls then he is dead wrong and was trying to cheat. There has been reports that Tom Brady may be suspended anywhere from 1 to 16 games. Anything more than 1 game would be overboard in my opinion. I dont agree with the notion that the psi of a football can change the outcome of a game, improve a players performance as some have suggested.

TE drafted by Denver just tore his ACL too. His was during SP Teams drills, just cutting in open field. I feel for these guys, tough break

Have they been fired or let go? I'm sure these guys loved doing what they did. Being on the field for every home game, up close seeing and hearing everything that goes on during a game must be a really cool experience.

Tom Brady is Tom Brady with a under inflated ball or over inflated or inflated perfectly ball. Actually I think I just figured out why Rex Grossman sucked, he never played with a under inflated football. OMG we could have won the SB if he had just taken some PSI out of the football. I mean think about it, he had small hands. This could have saved his career. Maybe Rashan Salaam wouldnt have fumbled so much, I know he blamed smoking weed but I think it was because the ball was not under inflated.

I agree with you if Tom Brady told them to do it he should have came fwd and admitted it. I think there should be a rule in place, there should be a set standard for the ball, there are 32 teams playing every Sunday, they should all be in the same range set by the NFL. Freaking out about it and making it out like Tom Brady somehow changed the outcome of games because of 1 pound of PSI is overboard. If he gets suspended I will think that its overboard. Remember the Pats have been caught doing some shady stuff in the past, this is Tom Brady's first questionable action ever.......Unless I missed him doing something else. Fine him $500,000, not that he would care about the money, his smoking hot wife makes more then he does. At Least the NFL is sending a message that any rules infraction will be punished.

It is more probable than not that the Patriots participated in game day rules violations and it is more probable than not that Tom Brady was generally aware of the activities. That sounds like a bunch of crap to me. A bunch of speculation to me. This investigation could only come up with more probable than not and that Tom Brady was more probable than not to be generally aware. If this investigation came out to say TOM BRADY knew and directed the game day attendants to break the rules I could see how this would be a bigger deal. I am all for rules to be in place. There seems to be 3 things being argued 1. The integrity of the game = breaking rules 2. An unfair advantage = Pats performing better with underinflated balls. 3. Lying about it= Brady and Pats denying knowing anything about it. My thoughts on the 3 topics 1. A rule was broken. Cant argue that. In the Wells report the Colts also had some balls measure below the 12.5 psi rule(post game). Is it that big of deal, I dont think so. I do not believe that the outcome of the game was decided on the psi of the ball. In any game (close or blow out) can every game ball be made sure that the psi is correct 100% of the time, that answer is no. 2. No ball will be perfectly inflated to 12.5 100% of the time. Each team has to deal with it and play the game. There will be games played with balls underinflated and overinflated. The wells reports talks about the Pats game against the Jets, the ball attendant refers to the balls being overinflated or ballons and that Brady was upset about the quality of the balls. This is on page 77. 3. The report can not come to the conclusion that Tom Brady 100% knew or directed the attendant to change the ball. All it can say is Tom Brady was more probable than not to be generally aware. This is nothing about speculation from Text messages between the game day attendants. I cant go off speculation, just wont do it.

I feel for the guy, that really sucks. About one of the worst ways you can start your NFL career. Crazy he didnt miss one game due to injury in college.

PED's puts a stain on a sport ie cycling and baseball. I think saying that the PSI infraction puts a stain on football is overboard. Its a minor infraction, hell it wasn't even that big enough of a deal to put in the rule book until 2008, whats that tell you about how important it is???? If Tom Brady used PED'S or strapped a jet pack to his throwing arm I could see it bettering his career/ winning more games. The fact is this TOM BRADY IS TOM BRADY WITH AN UNDERINFLATED, OVERINFLATED, INFLATED JUST RIGHT, BALL. My point has already been proven by the second half of the INDY game and the Superbowl. IF this was the Bears that got caught doing this I wonder how big a deal it would be to you guys that are upset about this. Perfect example the Falcons got caught pumping music into their stadium on game day to create a louder home field advantage, do you see the media FREAKING out? Was it a stain on Football?????? This is only a big deal because its the Patriots. They have won more in the last 15 years than anyone else.