Well, Foxsports broke that the Ravens warned the Colts about the Pats using under inflated footballs in their home games. League officials planned to investigate at halftime during the game regardless of what the Colts defender said after the interception. A 3 year old comment by Brady in November of 2011, "When Gronk scores he spikes the ball and he deflates the ball.Ii love that because I like the deflated football. But I feel for the football, because he puts everything he can into those spikes."
http://www.foxsports.com/nfl/story/d...otballs-012115
My guess is they have been doing this for years in home games and Brady's comment was a result of already doing this or caused the start of it THREE YEARS AGO. The home and away scoring certainly suggests there is more than just home field advantage going on. Other teams have large differences in performance at home and on the road but they are usually dome teams and the difference is more indoors and out tan home and away or like in mile high where the air is thin and opponents lose their wind in the second half but away they don't have winded opponents to face in the second half..
It is easy enough to see if there is evidence that Brady and the Pats benefited from doctored ball pressure by looking at the difference in home scoring and away scoring for the Pats since Brady has been QB. Brady made the comment about liking under inflated footballs in late 2011 a marked improvement in home game scoring versus road game scoring should be apparent if they have been cheating in home games lately. The difference should even tell you how long they have been doctoring balls in home game.
Season: Home, Away, Difference
2003: 22.0 ppg, 22.4 ppg, 0.4 more ppg on the road
2004: 24.8 ppg, 29.9 ppg, 5.1 more ppg on the road
2005: 23.4 ppg, 23.2 ppg, 0.2 more ppg scored at home
2006: 22.4 ppg, 27.8 ppg, 3.4 more ppg on the road
2007: 32.7 ppg, 36.4 ppg, 3.7 more ppg on the road
2008: 25.2ppg, 26.0 ppg, 0.8 ppg more on the road
2009: 29.3 ppg, 22.1 ppg, 7.2 more ppg at home
2010: 32.6 ppg, 30.8 ppg, 1.6 more ppg at home
2011: 31.4 ppg, 33.4 ppg, 2.0 more ppg on the road
2012: 33.2 ppg, 34.9 ppg, 1.7 more ppg on the road
2013: 31.8 ppg, 24.1 ppg, 7.7 more ppg at home
This season throwing out the meaningless BUF game where key players were rested and football doctoring would not be necessary in week 17 and including the post season:
2014: 36.9 ppg, 25.5 ppg, 11.4 ppg more at home.
Well the Pats' history shows a long history of scoring more ppg on the road before 2013 season (7/10 seasons more ppg on the road). Only 1 of the 10 seasons did they score a significant amount higher at home, 2009 where they scored 7.2 more ppg at home than on the road. Yet in 2013 and 2014 they scored 7.7 and 11.4 more ppg at home than on the road. That is pretty conclusive evidence they have been using doctored balls at home for the last 2 seasons. At least this season and much of last season. I mean this year 2/3rds of their home games were against playoff teams while 1/4 of their away games were against playoff teams. Assuming playoff status is indicative of a better defense there should be far more ppg in road games as has been their tendency over the years.
Like the wise man said to the fool, If it stinks like sh*t and looks like sh*t. You don't have to taste it to know its sh*t. The Pats have been able to sneak doctored balls into home games over the last 2 seasons.
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