If the league comes forward and declares that BB doctored all of his footballs to help his team out, how can you stand behind this man?

Yeah, Packers probably cutting Aaron Rodgers right after that. Although would be pretty GOAT move on his part if he could set up Fat Mike for the same thing.

I seriously doubt the balls were doctored in any deliberate hands-on way.

I expect what happened is the Patriots inflated the balls to the minimum PSI and then simply stored them in acceptable conditions which naturally caused the balls to deflate.

This is bad. Like, really really really really ****ing bad.

I now 100% believe it now. They don't just investigate the Pats, of all teams, at this exact moment for ****s and giggles. BB ordered the balls to be doctored and lied about it.

What if BB knew nothing and Brady was the one behind it? Does BB get fired for not knowing?

If it comes out that BB (or anyone on the Pats) had the balls tampered with after inspection, then I'm with you. That would be beyond stupid and clearly cheating.

However, my take from what's been coming out (Rogers' comments, tweets from some NFL refs and former players, comments about how many QB's prefer "flat" footballs, etc.) is the officials pretty much let them play with the balls they choose to. If they get too flat, they remove them from play. This is supported by the fact that none of the officials noticed anything wrong with the balls during the 1st half.

If the Pats presented under-inflated balls for inspection pre-game and the officials approved them for the game, and this is common, then it's sour grapes.

im trying to think of something football related that Belichick could do that would cause >20% of the fan base to want him gone

Bench Brady for the Superbowl?

If belichick sucked and they had a couple of football related losing seasons I might be ok with him being gone. Id probly give him more time tho.

lol ya that would do it, but i was thinking more along the lines of an underhanded coaching/management practice that would cause me to go into a hang wringing, "WHY BILL?!?!WHY?!?!" meltdown similar to what Salva is experiencing over footballs inflated to 84% of regulation pressure.

forcefeeding PEDs to draft picks i guess

Lol an epic lack of understanding of the entire situation

Ok, any more helpful comments?

Just here to laugh at Salva's overreaction.

With the info that's out now, this story is still a non story.

Just think how much better the posting would be here if a device was installed which made you pass a breathalyzer before you could post.

It's unfortunate that you, Gambololol and many others here don't seem to care about the ****storm that is going to engulf this team very shortly.

LOL @ "overreaction"... yep, nothing to see here, folks... media will forget about this in the morning.

I've stated my piece: if it comes out that BB was behind the deliberate deflating of game balls, I'm done with this team. Pushing edges is cute. Deliberate manipulation of game balls is straight up cheating and unacceptable. I won't defend this BS anymore.

Salva how many beers in are you right now? Maybe take it easy for the rest of the night.

What exactly are you afraid of, are other fans on the internet going to say naughty words about Tommy Touchdown?

Pretty sure the overreaction part was your wet dream of finally being able to call for BBs firing.

What all 3 of the top links on ESPN are Sources: Footballs Deflated, it's a story

It's obviously going to be a huge story, just not the human tragedy Salva makes it out to be

What mean by this? Do they switch balls at half ?

Delay at start of second half was supposedly from bringing balls back up to spec.

Yeah they switched the balls out at the half apparently because they seemed/measured too low at halftime

*because the Colts noticed they were low after intercepting a pass and the refs were notified.

Yes clearly

It's a ridiculously embarrassing mark on BB, not sure how that's not a big deal to you. I guess it's going to take draft pick penalties for all of this to truly hit home for some of you. Then **** will get real.

I'm going to call my own shot here: Pats will lose, at minimum, a 3rd round draft pick.