re: 7th grader uses science project to vindicate Brady in Deflategate

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The Wells report physics argument, based on multiple experiments as well as theoretical modeling, runs as follows.[8]:Appendix 1, 63-68 Several conjectured sources of variability (differences in game use, alleged "vigorous rubbing" by the Patriots before play, leakage during the game, and variations in football volume) can be set aside as they have no discernable effect. Based on documented habit, as well as the recollections of referee Walt Anderson, the Patriots balls were (as usual) set around 12.5 psi, and the Colts balls around 13.0 psi, before their games. The ideal gas law shows that footballs inflated in a warm environment will drop in pressure in a cold environment; however, a football is not a thermos, and the footballs would have rapidly started to re-inflate when taken to the officials' locker room for halftime testing. (Wells estimates that the Patriots balls had 2-4 minutes to repressurize before measurements began; the measurements themselves spanned an estimated 4-5 minutes.[8]:70) Most or all of the Patriots and Colts footballs should have mostly warmed up to room temperature and substantially reinflated by the time each measurement occurred. In addition, there is a minor problem of variability: to give one example, it is hard for a temperature-based theory to explain why Patriots ball #2 tested fully 0.6 psi lower than Patriots ball #1, when both ball #1 and #2 started before the game at the same psi. If temperature is the major factor, the Patriots psi should stay roughly the same, or gradually increase, as subsequent balls are tested, rather than bouncing all over the place.

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Patriots ball Blakeman Prioleau
#1 11.50 11.80
#2 10.85 11.20
#3 11.15 11.50
#4 10.70 11.00
#5 11.10 11.45
#6 11.60 11.95
#7 11.85 12.30
#8 11.10 11.55
#9 10.95 11.35
#10 10.50 10.90
#11 10.90 11.35

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Colts ball Blakeman Prioleau
1 12.70 12.35
2 12.75 12.30
3* 12.50 12.95
4 12.55 12.15

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Lulz, the NFL didn't even know WTF the ideal gas law was. Talk about ignorance

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Like Aaron Rodgers?

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NFL didn't measure the PSI before the game

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But when you add in the fumble stats going back to when teams first started making these claims against the pats, you should be able to see a pattern of working to gain an advantage.

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Read my post. The NFL knows the ideal gas law. But there is no law that explains why the Patriots balls dropped 1.2 and the colts .46. That is significant and shows tampering.

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Ben Goodell

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