Tom Brady And The Patriots Are INNOCENT!

see my deflated ball practice thread for a logical support.

My balls are deflated.

such a non-story when everyone admits the balls had no effect on the game.

good case how the media needs something to exploit, so this will be front page for the next 10 days.

They've beat them up... And they all have played with the same balls.. Don't know how people can talk this shit...

people talk shit when they have nothing good to say. thats reality

lol Patriots are best, go fuck yourself with fake ball

cheating sum bitches

Gotta love their long and illustrious history of cheating.

The Patriots finally got caught stealing signals, and using cameras to spy on opposing teams in 2007, but it's suspected to have started with Belichick's arrival in 2000. And that's just some of their shenanigans. They have not been able to repeat a Super Bowl win since ... but next week will be their 3rd try since "Spygate."

2007 National Football League videotaping controversy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

6 Times The New England Patriots Allegedly Cheated In Big Games

He had something to do with it, without question -- that's as obvious as anything. NO ONE on his team is going to change the pressure in the footballs he's playing with, without him knowing. It's him who decides EXACTLY how much or how little air is put in them and he'd know the difference the instant he touched the ball.

He's not going to play with a football that isn't how he wants it.

there is nothing at all obvious and without question. you think a multi-billion dollar operation simply threw caution to the wind in an NFC championship game and incorporated an unproven and unpracticed cheating strategy that didn't even bother to cover its' tracks?


that's simply preposterous.

Do you say anything before thinking?

And it's not unproven that a ball with less air in it is easier to grip when it's wet -- that's called common sense -- it's easier to catch in that situation too (obviously).

The Patriots are the ones who put the air in the balls (no one else) -- they knew what they were doing and Tom Brady was part of it. If he wasn't part of it, why would he not have asked for more air to be put in the balls, to play with them how he wanted? The guy throws a football for a living, any change in it, he's going to know instantly when he picks it up -- and if something wasn't how he wanted and someone on the team tampered with it -- he would have been furious.

No one is going to do anything on the New England team, to the footballs, without Brady's knowledge.

Former QB Troy Aikman: "It's obvious that Tom Brady had something to do with this...each team brings their footballs the way they like them and break 'em in. Used to you couldn't break them in. So for the balls to be deflated, that doesn't happen unless the quarterback wants that to happen, I can assure you of that."

Former QB Mark Brunell: "I did not believe what Tom had to say. Those balls were deflated. Somebody had to do it. I don't believe there's an equipment manager in the NFL that would, on his own initiative, deflate a ball without the starting QB's approval ... That football is our livelihood. If you don't feel good about throwing that ball? Your success on the football field can suffer from that."

Former RB Jerome Bettis: "I'm so disappointed, because I thought this was a perfect opportunity for Tom Brady to go and say 'You know what? I made a mistake. I blew it. It's on me. I'll take the blame here, and this will go away.' He didn't do that ... I'm disappointed in you Tom Brady."

Former safety Brian Dawkins: "This is unbelievable. For you not to know what you touch every play? ... The equipment manager is being thrown under the bus now. Now he's the guy. Now he's the one responsible. He took it upon himself to doctor up the balls when nobody else knew about it? That?s hard (to believe)."

Btw, the Patriots are my favorite team, but I don't become consciously delusional like so many of you in situations like this.