Trojanmojo Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 For the Patriots to blame a change in temperature for 15% lower-pressures, requires balls to be inflated with 125-degree air. The above tweet is from an astrophysicist (Neil deGrasse Tyson) Ironically full of a lot of hot air. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tazinib1 Posted January 27, 2015 Author Share Posted January 27, 2015 So the Pats now have there Patsy...who didn't see THIS coming. I hope that dude sings under the pressure. I'm sure a KRAFT "representative" will make it worth his while to shut up. If it were me and knowing how much I love what I do, I'd tell them to shove that football up their ass..I'd even deflate it for them first. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainHook Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 (edited) I do think he should be suspended for the SB. It didn't make a difference in the game vs the Colts, but it very well may have in the game vs Baltimore. Plus it has made a difference in who knows how many games for as long as they've been doing this. Repeat offender, so the punishment should be worse than what the Saints got. Edited January 27, 2015 by CaptainHook Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainHook Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 (edited) Brady should also be suspended for first 4 games in 2015. This ball boy didn't do this on his own. Edited January 27, 2015 by CaptainHook Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainHook Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 I would also not be surprised if they were tampering with the K balls, as the Ravens have suspected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainHook Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 And yes, of course I meant if they are found by the league investigation to be guilty. But I ain't buying no rogue ball boy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BA Baracus Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 That's what Aikman said but he's dead wrong on that. Trying to decapitate the team's best player is undermining the competition of the game. Not really. Half the point of the game is physically beating the opponent into submission. This ain't hopscotch ya know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HowboutthemCowboys Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 http://www.headsmartlabs.com/#in-the-news Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thebob Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 http://www.headsmart...om/#in-the-news Sure, except why would the Colts balls not have gone down in PSI too if it was strictly the weather that had caused this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevegrab Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 That's what Aikman said but he's dead wrong on that. Trying to decapitate the team's best player is undermining the competition of the game. Tell that to Lyle Alzado (just watched his NFLN A Football Life, and the bit about him promising to rip Theisman's head off). http://www.headsmart...om/#in-the-news Wow, 4 Boston area experts think BB's claim is plausible, in other news water is wet.... What is next, the Cardinal of the Catholic church in Boston going to tell us he interviewed Bill & Tom in church and they both swore on a bible they did nothing? Or maybe the Kennedy's could vouch for him. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dcat Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 We can all put an end to this now. Brady's ballboy just confessed publicly: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tazinib1 Posted January 27, 2015 Author Share Posted January 27, 2015 We could have saved a lot of time by just interviewing the 12th ball...duh 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevegrab Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Interesting article here, includes some stuff about Brady not talking to the NFL, because the Pats NFLPA rep has instructed the Pats players not to speak to the NFL about this. (Because they fear a player will be made the scapegoat rather than a coach or other high level team official.) http://www.si.com/nfl/2015/01/24/bill-belichick-deflategate-press-conference-new-england-patriots Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tazinib1 Posted January 27, 2015 Author Share Posted January 27, 2015 Ya think the 12th ball would buckle under the pressure? Think about it. 11of his brothers were kidnapped, tied down and had needles inserted into there skin. What a traumatic experience. I smell a conspiracy here. The 12th ball, is conspicuously maintaining his silence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keggerz Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2015/01/stats_show_the_new_england_patriots_became_nearly_fumble_proof_after_a_2006.2.html 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HowboutthemCowboys Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 http://regressing.deadspin.com/why-those-statistics-about-the-patriots-fumbles-are-mos-1681805710 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Brown Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 (edited) http://regressing.de...-mos-1681805710 The Patriots are indeed nearly off the chart, but that is partially because the author uses the smallest y-axis possible to demonstrate the largest effect that he could. It's generally preferred to use a y-axis that begins at 0, as any other scale is misleading and, in all likelihood, sensationalistic. (There are a few exceptions to this, but rarely so straightforward as this.) This sounds like pathetically weak deflection. The number 187, compared to the rest of the league, was outside normal distribution and by definition; a statistical anomaly that is affected by something externally or a 16,000+ to 1 coincidence. The y-axis exaggeration (which I don't really notice as skewed for effect as much as it is to fit in the data) doesn't change those facts. Are these guys New England beat writers? ETA: They are stat guys with credibility....I will read the whole thing and re-consider the original article. Edited January 28, 2015 by Bobby Brown Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tazinib1 Posted January 28, 2015 Author Share Posted January 28, 2015 Not NE beat writers but they may have homer blinders on considering they got statistical PhD's at University of Connecticut and University of Massachusetts respectively 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HowboutthemCowboys Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Not NE beat writers but they may have homer blinders on considering they got statistical PhD's at University of Connecticut and University of Massachusetts respectively did you read the whole thing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackass Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 This sounds like pathetically weak deflection. The number 187, compared to the rest of the league, was outside normal distribution and by definition; a statistical anomaly that is affected by something externally or a 16,000+ to 1 coincidence. The y-axis exaggeration (which I don't really notice as skewed for effect as much as it is to fit in the data) doesn't change those facts. Are these guys New England beat writers? ETA: They are stat guys with credibility....I will read the whole thing and re-consider the original article. Did you read the article? the 16,000 to 1 was disproven. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tazinib1 Posted January 28, 2015 Author Share Posted January 28, 2015 did you read the whole thing? I sped red Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HowboutthemCowboys Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Not NE beat writers but they may have homer blinders on considering they got statistical PhD's at University of Connecticut and University of Massachusetts respectively so if they went to school in Idaho you would find what they've written more believeable? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tazinib1 Posted January 28, 2015 Author Share Posted January 28, 2015 Ugh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hezagenius Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 There are so many variables in this analysis that you could include or exclude to prove whatever side you want to come down on. That rebuttal article came off as really mister-y, that's for sure. I'm not saying Sharp's article was airtight, but those 2 statisticians came off as major pricks with an axe to grind. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caveman_Nick Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 There is always someone with an axe to grind... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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