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NFL looking into whether Patriots “deflated footballs” in AFC title game

It's not the reason they won but the fact is they had this planned before the game to get any kind of illegal advantage. People keep saying oh big deal game wasn't close. Well no **** but NE went in with this in mind and did it which is cheating. This team should just have an asterisk in its name. **** Belichick and the entire organization and fan base. No integrity what so ever.


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Okay, so maybe the cheating didn't make a difference in yesterday's game. But with all the times the Pats have been caught cheating...you have to think they probably cheat on a regular basis. Perhaps they cheated their way into home field in the playoffs? Who knows how many games they should've or would've won if they played by the same rules as everyone else. It could have completely changed the landscape of this year's playoffs.
 
Billk78 said:
Okay, so maybe the cheating didn't make a difference in yesterday's game. But with all the times the Pats have been caught cheating...you have to think they probably cheat on a regular basis. Perhaps they cheated their way into home field in the playoffs? Who knows how many games they should've or would've won if they played by the same rules as everyone else. It could have completely changed the landscape of this year's playoffs.
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I agree. It makes you wonder how often they illegal cheat to gain any advantage. But nothing will ever come to it because it's NE and the NFL's favorite team.


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While the NFL has the salary cap to keep things equal, it is not.
Players will regularly take a deal with the Patriots for much less money than other teams. This makes their Salary cap able to purchase more talent for the same price as other teams. Just another way they are "Cheaters"
 
Danny6813 said:
If true, I hope they lose pics..
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Goodell will sweep this under the rug as well... nothing to see here. As many have mentioned this had little to do with the outcome of the game but once again it appears the intent to "bend the rules" was there and ultimately that is all that should matter.
 
LOL @ WV trying to make a point about the balls having paint on them when refs wipe the ball with a dry towel.

Another long line of lol posts from him.

Keep em coming.
 
If there was any real Justice the Patriots would be treated as repeat offenders, but we all know that deflated football will be buried right next to the Ray Rice elevator tape in Goodell's backyard. Any one arguing the point that it didn't effect the game as it was blow out yadda yadda etc. Rules exist for a reason just because it wasn't pertinent in this case and if it was a closer game it would be very important and if it was against the Dolphins this board would be howling bloody murder. Give a Belicheck another pass will only embolden him more and more, he is not gaming the system this is outright cheating
 
So if the supposed advatage that comes from deflating balls is that they are easy to catch, why did the Colts WRs drop everything?
 
What a ridiculous plot.

F*** the patriots. Seahawks better lay the smack down on them like they did to Manning last year.
 
Mike13 said:
So if the supposed advatage that comes from deflating balls is that they are easy to catch, why did the Colts WRs drop everything?
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Each team brings its own footballs to the game. The team on offense is using its own footballs, so the Patriots would have the advantage while the Colts would not. The NFL should expedite this investigation, make the Patriots forfeit the AFC title game if the balls were deflated, take draft picks, and ban Bellicheat from the NFL for the 2015 season. They have been caught multiple times cheating and serious sanctions are the only way to put an end to this ****.
 
Flip Tanneflop said:
It is called paint. If you would watch the games live as opposed to on your DVR, you not only get a better feel for the game, but you can put things into context. For instance, you may have noticed it was raining very hard for much of the game. To mark the lines on the field, they use a white substance. Also, for games of certain magnitude(championships, playoffs etc etc..... something Tannehill fans are not familiar with) they use even more of the substance to put things on areas of the field aside from just marking lines. When it rains a lot, such as it did during the game yesterday, that substance gets everywhere. You may have noticed while watching scoring plays on your DVR, that Gronk was so heavily covered in it, it made it appear as if it were snowing at the game. It clearly was not snowing, given that the temperature was over 50 degrees at kickoff. That could be the substance you mentioned.

If the substance were a red looking color, it could have been the paint from somewhere on the field, or the reddish looking hue left on the hands of players that the football will leave during heavy rain. Terry Bradshaw demonstrated that during the pregame of the NFC Championship and the substance was still fully visible on his hand during the halftime show of that game.

Nevertheless, I suggest you try watching the games live. It gives you a much better perspective as opposed to just watching individual plays and "breaking down the film" when you "put the tape on". If you watch them live, you may actually notice things like flow of game, situational factors that lead to certain plays, momentum, and clutch factor. If you watch a 3rd and long after hitting buttons and just watch for footwork and all of that jazz, you may fail to realize that its even 3rd down and a check down is not an optimal decision given the circumstances. It might be something you mark as a negative play as opposed to "OMG did you see that read progression and location of the open man!!!! If he would have tried to squeeze that one in there to the WR down the field, it was likely an INT. Great job by the QB!!!"



Im shocked. Anyone who understands the game will tell you that Andrew Luck has huge balls. Certain other QBs do not. Tom Brady does, but perhaps that is something that comes with age.



We're on to Seattle.
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Good luck on that LSAT, because with this kind of reasoning, you're going to need it.
 
TarHeelFinFan said:
Each team brings its own footballs to the game. The team on offense is using its own footballs, so the Patriots would have the advantage while the Colts would not. The NFL should expedite this investigation, make the Patriots forfeit the AFC title game if the balls were deflated, take draft picks, and ban Bellicheat from the NFL for the 2015 season. They have been caught multiple times cheating and serious sanctions are the only way to put an end to this ****.
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Ohhhh.

Except the Pats pretty much just ran it down the Colt's throat.
I'm still not buying it, it just seems so....childish, and I know the Pats are the masters of shady ass **** but come on.
 
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