The Weird, Wacky and Awesome World of the NFL - General Banter thread V3

NFL-related - Osi Umenyiora who was missing from NFL coverage for the past few months has posted and revealed that he was in hospital for a month including being in a coma for 5 days. Sounds scary, and he's noticably lost a good chunk of weight/muscle. Good to see him on the mend though and being able to get back to it.

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Joe Brady promoted to HC at the Bills.

Nothing to do with. 100% Kraft is behind this.

As said above the Hall of Fame takes the hit over this. It's just become less important.

Polian is denying he did it.

In fairness with the way the defense played Schwartz deserved the job.

I think what the crux of the issue becomes is that it's not really up to the HoF selection voters to punish Belichick for Spygate/Deflategate/being a d*ck to them.

Not downplaying Spygate or Deflategate, but it's up to the NFL to take action against him and the team for that, and they did to some extent. Either way though, Belichick's record still stands. They didn't have SB wins taken off them or marked with a permanent asterisk, and they didn't put measures in place to restrict Belichick's eligibility for the HoF.

So if the HoF selection voters (individually, not saying there was any collusion or conspiracy) can decide to not vote for him in order to punish him for those things rather than judging him overall (in which case he'd still beat out almost every single other candidate), then that's just not right imo.

I can get arguments about how he wouldn't have been half as accomplished if not for Brady and the rest of the team and how his record after Brady left reflects that. I don't fully agree with that as that's ultimately every coach ever, but to not vote for him because of Spygate/Deflategate… that just does feel petty and therefore discredits the voting process for the HoF.

The Patriots didn't cheat over many years. Spygate was ridiculous, other coaches came out and said they were doing it. It was a one time thing in one game against a former Patriots coach.

Deflategate is the most ridiculous thing ever. It was proven beyond doubt that balls would deflate that much in the weather which they played in.

But oh no, the 'experts' the NFL hired said it wouldn't happen even though college science departments in multiple universities had proven it would.

These same experts were hired by cigarette companies to 'prove' that passive smoking was not unhealthy.

Anyway besides all that, Belichick was never part of the deflategate investigation. The accusations from the NFL stated that Belichick and other members of the coaching staff were not involved in the situation.

So we've got a one day spygate situation. There was nothing between 2000 and 2005 when the Patriots won three Superbowls and there was nothing between 2014 and 2018 when the Patriots won another 3 Superbowls.

Anyone with a gripe shouldn't be on the selection committee. Every analyst on American TV is up on arms over this. Lots are saying the Hall of Fame is now a joke. They are demanding that the eleven who didn't vote for Belichick stand up and be counted. The voting is done privately in case you don't know.

All the voters have cameras and reporters in their faces demanding to know how they voted since the news broke.

It's quite simple, among coaches Vince Lombardi and Don Shula are the hall of fame, Bill Belichick belongs in that pantheon but as far as the hall of fame is concerned he is not.

Now a couple of reporters said what I was thinking which is that Kraft is behind this.

Bill Polian has been calling for Kraft to be in the hall for years but somehow he has a problem with Belichick? Is he a hypocrite or is somebody pressing his buttons? I say the latter and that Kraft is the one doing it.

This is the most egregious thing to ever happen with the hall of fame voting. Not having Terrell Owens as a first ballot would be next on the list, probably the third greatest receiver of all time. But two things, he never won a Superbowl and was third best. Belichick is the GOAT coach according to everybody, well everybody that's honest about things.

It's an absolute disgrace and I think these voters need to stand up and own their stupidity or hate or whatever made them not vote for him.

Do you know anything about spygate?

You do know you are allowed tape the signals of opposing coaches? Spygate was about them being taped on the sidelines instead of the designated areas. Goodell decided to make a big deal of it.

As regards deflategate

Many experiments showed that the temperature drop can cause a decrease of 1.5 to 2.0 psi.

The Patriots' footballs were roughly 2 psi under the legal minimum.

While many studies supported the idea that the weather was cold enough to explain the drop the Wells report concluded there was evidence of intentional manipulation.

As I said before the people who conducted the Wells report previously found that passive smoking did not cause any health concerns. They also defended a car, the Suzuki Samurai which was deemed unsafe on sharp turns. They said the type of tyres used and bad driving was the cause of the issue. They've been on the airlines side of plane crashes and loads of other stuff.

Basically they find what you want them to find.

The companies name is now Exponent inc. I think they changed their name after the Suzuki case.

As for the game. It was 17-7 at halftime. The balls were pumped up and the final score was 45-7 to the Patriots.