the issue with suspending brady, from reports, there is apparently no smoking gun, they believe he probably generally knew what was going on. they also said that bellichek and the main office had no clue about it...so Bill is PROBABLY off the hook.
as for brady, its hard, the ASSUMPTION is there about guilt, however, i read that of the 4 balls tested at halftime for the colts- no idea if this is true yet- they had 2 pressure gauges. according to reports most of the balls pregame were AROUND 13.1 psi...at halftime one gauge had the 4 tested AROUND 12.5-13psi (all "legal") the other gauge had 3 of the 4 under 12.5 psi. however the take off is this...
according to the report the ref says he remembers that the pats balls were all at 12.5 or 12.6 psi.... if the colts balls all dropped around 1psi(but due to starting 1psi more..remained legal ...wouldn't the pat's have as well- without them doing anything to said balls, the temp would have deflated the balls all on their own.
ok found it
FROM THE REPORT:
SYNOPSIS:
PREGAME- PATS BALLS AT 12.5 (2 UNDER 12.5 GOT INFLATED TO 12.5 BY REF)
COLTS BALLS MOSTLY 13.1
HALFTIME - FROM PAGE 12
so the pats balls lost from 0.2psi to 1.6psi with about 1psi lost average...and the colts balls lost (only 4 tested) - 0.3-0.6 psi, yet only 1/3rd the balls were tested, maybe more were under inflated.
also:
same page 12
from page 73:
after the game 4 balls from each team selected at random and tested with the same gauges:
ALL the patriots balls were legal -well one was actually over inflated-(using the higher recording gauge)
1 of the colts balls was illegal- again using the higher recording gauge-
if using the the lower recording gauge, 3 of the 4 colts balls were illegal...pats balls were fine with this gauge.
imo much adieu about nothing.,.. 2psi for at most 2 quarters, with the correct inflated balls the pats still destroyed the colts in the 2nd half... (17pts first half 28pts 2nd half)
as for brady, its hard, the ASSUMPTION is there about guilt, however, i read that of the 4 balls tested at halftime for the colts- no idea if this is true yet- they had 2 pressure gauges. according to reports most of the balls pregame were AROUND 13.1 psi...at halftime one gauge had the 4 tested AROUND 12.5-13psi (all "legal") the other gauge had 3 of the 4 under 12.5 psi. however the take off is this...
according to the report the ref says he remembers that the pats balls were all at 12.5 or 12.6 psi.... if the colts balls all dropped around 1psi(but due to starting 1psi more..remained legal ...wouldn't the pat's have as well- without them doing anything to said balls, the temp would have deflated the balls all on their own.
ok found it
FROM THE REPORT:
SYNOPSIS:
PREGAME- PATS BALLS AT 12.5 (2 UNDER 12.5 GOT INFLATED TO 12.5 BY REF)
COLTS BALLS MOSTLY 13.1
HALFTIME - FROM PAGE 12
same gauges, 0.4 (basically) difference between the gauges, which is right? lets ASSUME (YA YA) that the higher gauge was right for all the balls(they assumed all the higher ones for the colts were right)
so the pats balls lost from 0.2psi to 1.6psi with about 1psi lost average...and the colts balls lost (only 4 tested) - 0.3-0.6 psi, yet only 1/3rd the balls were tested, maybe more were under inflated.
also:
same page 12
even going by the lower gauge- which has several of the colts balls illegal- at most - for a half- we are talking 2psi underinflated -max.
from page 73:
after the game 4 balls from each team selected at random and tested with the same gauges:
ALL the patriots balls were legal -well one was actually over inflated-(using the higher recording gauge)
1 of the colts balls was illegal- again using the higher recording gauge-
if using the the lower recording gauge, 3 of the 4 colts balls were illegal...pats balls were fine with this gauge.
imo much adieu about nothing.,.. 2psi for at most 2 quarters, with the correct inflated balls the pats still destroyed the colts in the 2nd half... (17pts first half 28pts 2nd half)
