Deflation-gate: did the Patriots deflate the
ball in their 45-7 rout of the Colts on Sunday or did they not? Forget ISIS, and
Hebdo. Forget Boka Haram and Teheran: that is the question.
Deflating the ball makes it easier to pass and
catch in cold wet weather. Is that why Tom Brady and his Pats mauled Andrew
Luck and his Colts?
To be sure, deflated ball or not, the Pats were
better, as even deflationists admit, as in smarter, bigger, meaner -- altogeher more evil.
Plus here's a question I don't see asked,
though it should be: if it was
easier for Brady to throw and his receivers to catch, why not the same for the Colt's
great young q'back Andrew Luck and his receivers?
Brady is right to chortle at the silliness of
this whole thing.
Except for one thing: Pat coach Bill Belichick.
It was Belichick who cooked
up Brady throwing to Julian Edelman in the Pats win against the Ravens two Sundays
ago. It was a schoolyard razzle-dazzle play that just doesn't happen in big time
football. Brady throws to Edelman, a running back (who happens to have been a
college q'back). The Ravens go after Edelman as if he were going to run. Little
do they suspect he's about to pass. Their defense has no one on the case.
Touchdown.
And then there is the way Belichick is reconfiguring
his receivers, within the rules, to be sure, but rules it seems no other coach
has made much use of. He sends his offensive lineman in, their role being to
protect the q'back. But some come in and declare themselves right there in real
time eligible to receive passes, leaving whomever to play defense.
The opposing team can't grok.
If the footballs were intentionally deflated, which
I doubt, I wouldn't put it past Belichick. Belichick is capable of anything,
even waterboarding balls. He's just
that kind of guy. He reminds me of Dick Cheney, except he's a thousand times
more wily and applies his evil genius to the more honorable pursuit of football,
honorable, that is, as compared to Cheney and his kinds of war.
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