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Burek on 21 January 2015
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mornelithe said:
McDonaldsGuy said:


1. The 12th one is for special teams.

2. The Patriots have a history of cheating.


Doesn't matter, there's already a set penalty for this infraction in the rules ($25K to the person responsible).  The league can't just arbitrarily up it, unless it wants to get shafted in the courts again (they have recent precedent fresh in mind).  Again, it also ignores the fact that Aaron Rodgers literally overinflates balls and makes the refs deflate them.  This is a ref issue, sorry, is it shady they were tampered with?  Yes.  Is it a Patriots only issue?  Clearly not, you have an active QB who does the exact opposite, and expects the refs to deal with it. 

Beyond that, again, $25K is the most that can be assessed for this, and the NFL's gonna have to actually prove someone on the Patriots did it.  Kind of surprised there's no actual footage of it, given how many cameras were all over the place.

No, there are separate kicking balls altogether, when there was an odd game pause that night, they were changing out a kickoff ball for a scrimmage ball.  So, for scrimmage balls, there are 24 total, 12 regulars, 12 backups.  What's the pressure of the backups?

From what I understood, there are 24 balls, but no backups. It's that each team chooses 12 balls, and each team plays with their own balls on offense. I was watching Dean Blandino explain it all yesterday on NFL Network, and there were stories of what all is done to the balls between the checkup and gametime (team's ball boy keeps the balls in that 2 hour interval).