Post by NormanClature on May 21, 2018 12:08:38 GMT
According to the Wells report, it was concluded that it was "more probable than not," the New England Patriots equipment personnel were deliberately circumventing the rules. Further more, Brady was implicated as it was concluded he was more probable than not that to be "generally aware" of the deflation. The report focuses on the communications and actions of locker-room attendant Jim McNally and equipment assistant John Jastremski. The report concludes it was "more probable than not" that the two deliberately released air from Patriots game balls after they were tested by game officials. In several texts between Jastremski and McNally, the two mention and joke about inflation, deflation, needles, and gifts from Tom Brady to McNally. Tom Brady was a constant reference point in these discussions. McNally referred to himself as "the deflator" in a text message to Jastremski as far back as May 2014.
The Wells Report relied on scientific analysis performed by Exponent and supported by Dr. Daniel Marlow, a professor of Physics at Princeton University. This analysis concluded that no studied factors accounted for the loss of air pressure exhibited by the Patriots game balls. The Wells Report asserted that the scientific study supported the report's conclusion that the loss of air pressure may be accounted for by human intervention.
www.nytimes.com/2016/01/23/sports/football/nfl-ignores-ball-deflation-science-at-new-england-patriots-expense.html
www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/21-scientists-say-tom-brady-is-right-and-the-nfl-is-wrong_us_5745fb9ce4b0dacf7ad3c55d
I get it, people hate the Patriots because they always win and because Belichick is a prick to reporters. I understand completely. But Deflategate was nonsense from the start, and you should probably learn the facts before you comment on it.
A US court of appeal reinstated Brady's suspension.
"Patriots great Tom Brady suffered a resounding defeat in a federal appeals court Wednesday, leaving him with the daunting option of a last-ditch plea to the Supreme Court in his arduous quest to clear his name. More than 14 months after the National Football League punished Brady for allegedly conspiring with Patriots employees, including an aide who dubbed himself The Deflator, to tamper with the air pressure of footballs in a conference championship game, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit flatly rejected Brady’s appeal of his four-game suspension. Not a single judge on the 13-member panel issued a dissent." Two days later Brady announced he would not appeal further and would serve his four game suspension at the beginning of the 2016 NFL season.
That is a "fact," buddy. 