On Jan 24th I posted THIS:
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But think of this. If there is no evidence that anyone on the Patriots
team altered those footballs, aren't we then forced to look at other
alternative explanations? One alternative possibility put forth is that
the weather conditions and subsequent changes in ambient temps/pressures
were the cause. But I say different. I say this was a deliberate act of
sabotage against the Patriot's owner, team and fans. What methodology
was used to pull this off? Who hated the Pats enough to try to bring
them down? The investigation has just begun. But I will put my money on
Baltimore and Indianapolis. If ever slimier organizations exist, I have
never heard of them. Baltimore is a team of ex cons, murderers and woman
haters. Indy is owned by a crack head who risks the lives of citizens
while he careens through the streets high on any number of drugs.
Mark my words on this. You heard it hear first.
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More and more it's looking as if I was so correct and forward thinking,
as to be almost prescient.
Now come THIS story from Profootballtalk.com which echoes my words from
over a month ago.
At the Scouting Combine, Colts coach Chuck Pagano dismissed the notion
that someone from his team took air out of the Patriots football brought
to the sideline by linebacker D’Qwell Jackson “ludicrous.”
Those investigating the #DeflateGate controversy may not share that view.
Officially, the NFL has no comment on whether the Ted Wells
investigation includes the question of whether the football the Colts
obtained from the Patriots and gave to the NFL was deflated by the
Colts. Unofficially, the investigation must at least explore the
possibility.
The chain of custody necessarily was interrupted when the Colts secured
possession of the football. Assuming the Colts may have deflated a
football that came into the team’s possession is no less ludicrous than
assuming the Patriots may have deflated it.
If it’s true that the football obtained by the Colts was even more
deflated that the rest of the footballs being used by the New England
offense, it’s at least possible that one of the various people who
handled the ball after Jackson brought it to the sideline removed air
from it, especially in light of G.M. Ryan Grigson’s admission that the
Colts alerted the NFL to concerns about deflation in the days before the
AFC title game. The Colts knew that air pressure was an issue; if a
rogue employee from the Patriots was capable of taking air out of the
footballs, a rogue employee from the Colts may have been capable of it, too.
It doesn’t mean the Colts deflated the football. It also doesn’t mean
the Colts didn’t. It means that the NFL must rule out that the ball was
deflated by the Colts if the NFL plans to conclude that the Patriots did.
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