American Enterprise Institute finds Wells Report 'deeply flawed'

[Jet Fan RI]

Ah, OK. I hadn't seen it when I read the report the first timer. I just kind of skimmed through it.

So now that we know the Wells report is based on a scientific standard, where is the "science" behind AEI's rebuttal? I see nothing in what was posted.[/QUOTE]

The only thing I see there is their claim that the statistical analysis was not accurate. I really can't comment too much on that because I am no expert on statistics. But I'm sure either the physicist who approved the tech report or one of his friends at Princeton can comment sensibly. I just hope they can cobble a response together before the suspension hearing.

One aspect that doesn't smell right though is the reference to the Colt balls inflating, which happened because the Colt balls were measured later than the Pat balls so they had more time to warm up in the refs' room. But all of that was addressed in the testing and in the tech report. Did they not notice that part of the tech report, or did they misunderstand it, or are they simply ignoring it? Any way you look at it, it makes them look really bad.

Bottom line is that even accounting for the later testing of the Colt balls, and accounting for the fact that one set of balls may have been wetter or dryer than the other set, and even accounting for the differences between the two gauge types used, the Pat balls showed more deflation than can be due to natural causes, while the Colt balls did not.

 

[JohnnyBaseball1]

They got their lawyers to issue a "rebuttal" to the report, which everyone laughed at, so they payed this "think tank" money to shill for them. Pretty typical really.

 

[Jet Fan RI]

They got their lawyers to issue a "rebuttal" to the report, which everyone laughed at, so they payed this "think tank" money to shill for them. Pretty typical really.

The trouble is, we really don't know what Goodell will make of this report. If you look at the end of the article I posted, it says the same outfit produced a report in the Bountygate case and, as a result, the suspensions of all the players in that case were vacated. That's why it's important for Wells or his tech team to respond to this report well before the Brady suspension hearing. I'm hoping it's not already too late for that.

 

[JohnnyBaseball1]

If they disregard their own report for this one, to allow the Patriots off the hook, they'll rightly be seen as the joke that they are.

This is a watershed moment for Goodell and the NFL. Everyone has an inkling that this league isn't on the up and up. Letting them off the hook here is the final straw. It really is time to start talking about the steroids that the players are OBVIOUSLY using and the connection the league OBVIOUSLY has with Las Vegas and gambling. The Patriots cheating is small potatoes compared to that.

Major League Baseball would be getting KILLED for this.