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Well he may claim he doesn't have knowledge of that. But come on, it's the QB. I could maybe buy that Belichick didn't know the details but there's no way a rogue ballboy did this without Brady knowing. He's already publicly professed to preferring underinflated balls publicly..

He said during his press conference that he didn't know anything about it. I've yet to see a good writeup or transcript so I don't know if he addressed that part of it.

At this point I really don't know what to believe here. Whatever your thoughts about Belichick, he's always been straight about the events behind spygate, so I don't see why he'd lie here. Brady may be lying, but, again, why? If he is all it would take is one lower-level guy selling him up the river to unleash a crapstorm, so that seems riskier than saying "Yeah I told them to prep balls at 11 PSI" or something. But then what happened? It's unlikely any equipment guy was just going rogue, and the temperature difference doesn't explain it (especially since the balls were likely re-tested at about the same temp they were filled at). Supposedly the refs tested them and they were within spec at the beginning of the game, but I keep reading things about them "weighing" the balls, and we're talking about a difference in weight (~1g) that's within the margin of error for almost any scale they'd use, let alone the balls themselves. Plus we haven't heard any corroboration of any of this. Also, if it was intentional, why do 11/12? That seems strange to me too.

Anyway, none of this makes sense to me still.

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Well he may claim he doesn't have knowledge of that. But come on, it's the QB. I could maybe buy that Belichick didn't know the details but there's no way a rogue ballboy did this without Brady knowing. He's already publicly professed to preferring underinflated balls publicly..

He said during his press conference that he didn't know anything about it. I've yet to see a good writeup or transcript so I don't know if he addressed that part of it.

At this point I really don't know what to believe here. Whatever your thoughts about Belichick, he's always been straight about the events behind spygate, so I don't see why he'd lie here. Brady may be lying, but, again, why? If he is all it would take is one lower-level guy selling him up the river to unleash a crapstorm, so that seems riskier than saying "Yeah I told them to prep balls at 11 PSI" or something. But then what happened? It's unlikely any equipment guy was just going rogue, and the temperature difference doesn't explain it (especially since the balls were likely re-tested at about the same temp they were filled at). Supposedly the refs tested them and they were within spec at the beginning of the game, but I keep reading things about them "weighing" the balls, and we're talking about a difference in weight (~1g) that's within the margin of error for almost any scale they'd use, let alone the balls themselves. Plus we haven't heard any corroboration of any of this. Also, if it was intentional, why do 11/12? That seems strange to me too.

Anyway, none of this makes sense to me still.