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  1. Joe Willie White Shoes

    Joe Willie White Shoes Well-Known Member

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    If you can't see the difference between "looking for an edge" and breaking an explicit rule, I don't know what to say. As for UNC hoops, have you been under a rock or something? The fraudulent academic program for UNC athletes has been exposed over and over, and now former UNC athletes are suing. While it was thought that UNC did things the right way, the evidence over the past year or so indicates otherwise with respect to all UNC sports.
     
  2. Joe Willie White Shoes

    Joe Willie White Shoes Well-Known Member

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    Explain to me how this explains and justifies under inflating the footballs? That's like saying I didn't break the law because I didn't get caught because the police didn't catch it at the moment I broke the law. If the refs did not check the balls, as they were supposed to, before the game, that doesn't explain why the Pats had 11 balls that were under inflated against league rules. The Patriot Way - deflect and deny.

    As for the impact on the Colts game, that is not the point. Saying it did not impact the game is like someone who gets caught dealing from the bottom of the deck in a poker game after winning the hand with 4 aces saying it didn't matter because I only dealt myself two of the aces and looking at all of your crap hands on this deal, I would have won the hand anyway with the pair of aces that I got from dealing properly from the top of the deck.
     
  3. BonScott

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    I wonder what our players think of this
    I imagine Mangold with the Sons showing up at Sudfelds house
    "Hey Zach, come take a ride I'm thinking of buying a boat" lol
     
  4. 1968jetsfan

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    He also played a vertical game with a lot of deep passes in an era where there was no 5 yard bump zone, no defensive holding etc. PI was only called on flagrant interference when the ball was in the air.
    The Jets also threw more than most teams and the AFL was a very vertical league with high interception rates due to the wide open offenses.
    in 1967, for example, only 2 AFL teams had fewer than 20 interceptions and 2 teams had more than 30. Same story in '66. In '65 only 1 team had fewer than 20 interceptions and 2 were over 30..in an 8 team league. In '68 the AFL started to run the ball more, passing attempts were down and shorter passes became more common. The result? for the first time the league had 4 teams with fewer than 20 interceptions, one of those being the Jets. They did still have 2 teams with more than 30 picks. In 69 only 2 teams had fewer than 20 picks, 2 had more than 30 (the jets had 20).

    the point is that it was a very different game back then.
     
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    As an example, Benjarvus Green-Ellis never fumbled the ball in 5 years with the Pats, in 2 years with the Bengals he fumbled 5 times
     
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  6. 74

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    Jim Rome jinxed him
     
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    Patriots running backs had 1 fumble all year during the regular season. I think it's just good coaching by Bill.
     
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    By good coaching you mean under inflating footballs.
     
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    Don't waste your time with 007 complete waste of energy. I asked for stats on other q's who threw 40 interceptions in the same period he said Peyton Manning ignoring the fact Peyton threw for over 50 tds in that period as well. He doesn't look at everything in the next 5 posts he will Smith is better the Namath
     
  11. mute

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    What was the original source of this image?

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  12. NY Jets68

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    I typed in "do you consider the patriots cheaters", not sure if it's the exact same site.
     
  13. The Waterboy

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    I can't wait for this press conference !!!
     
  15. Wah

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    It's from the ESPN.com poll
     
  16. SteveGrogan

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    Press conference... sounds like an admission of guilt coming, can't imagine anything else.
     
  17. mute

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    What time is press conference?

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  18. SteveGrogan

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    Not an admission of guilt. Not yet anyway. Going on now on the Patriots.com page.
     
  19. Wah

    Wah Well-Known Member

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    Updates plz
     
  20. SteveGrogan

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    Big FUCK YOU to the media pretty much... saying they didn't do it.
     
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