Deflategate has dominated the Super Bowl headlines, but it appears that Dean Blandino and the NFL officials don’t have logs of just how inflated the Patriots balls were.
The New England Patriots are in the middle of the Defaltegate scandal, but there is new information surfacing that proves the league may not be have been out to get the Patriots in a sting operation.
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According to NFL head of officiating Dean Blandino, the NFL doesn’t have the logs of the Patriots under inflated footballs, which sort of kills their case against the team. What it really means is that contrary to previous reports that the NFL was holding a sting operation to bust the Patriots, this clearly wasn’t the case.
If the NFL didn’t log the PSI in the Patriots footballs, that means they weren’t out to get the team. It also doesn’t mean that there isn’t a case here against New England. The balls were no doubt tampered with, but the NFL wasn’t already looking into the Patriots the way that has been reported.
The Patriots aren’t out of the woods with Deflategate — even if it’s the dumbest scandal to hit the NFL in a long time. But what this latest information proves is that the Patriots weren’t subject to a song operation after they were suspected of deflating balls all season long.
What this has come down to is people who hate the Patriots finding a reason to rail against them while others are defending them with practical reasons. Joe Montana and others have come out to say Tom Brady can deflate balls if he feels like they help him as all quarterbacks do that.
Deflate gate still exists, but the sting operation does not.
[H/T: Pro Football Talk]
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