^^Wow!!! 
There are lots of rookies that start every year. Itās hard to believe they can all be coached up from Pop Warner to NFL caliber in a few OTAs and 6 weeks of training camp.
The draft is skimming the cream of 240 players or so from thousands, maybe 10ās of thousands of players. Many of them have the skills already, they just need to learn the system. If it didnāt work, teams would pass on the early picks in order to save the salary money, particularly in the days before the current contract where the rookie contracts are slotted.
Is it massively over-hyped, like everything else NFL these days? Sure, but itās not irrelevant either.
Hey! I agree with you too!
^ See what a couple of drinks on a Friday will do? 
And the SNL 40 rerun
Suddenly everyone seems funnier
The actual internal pressure of a football is the observed psi PLUS 14.7 psi. External pressure is 14.7 psi and if the internal pressure was only 13 psi, the ball would cave in! The measured pressure, 13 psi for example, is actually 13 psi above external atmospheric pressure.
Also, pressure is directly proportional to the ABSOLUTE temperature(Kelvin in metric, Rankine in English). So a decrease from 70 degrees F to 40 degrees F, in absolute terms is a much smaller decrease percentage-wise (from 529 Rankine to 499 Rankine).
(This has been a CC nerd moment.)
@saintfanā Mardi Gras kitty?
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After reading all this agreement from last nightās posts, I now believe there is hope for world peace.
There also seems to be a love-fest going on between Pete Carroll and Bill Belichick at the combine:
The 1mm came from an expert I heard on the radio. Posting, though, because lots of people confuse the pressure stuff, including Bill Nye and some academics: they forget the balls arenāt filled in a vacuum but in our atmosphere. That people rushed to make statements without thinking that through is, to me, one of the funnier bits. I donāt expect much, well anything, from sports guys but I do expect science people to exercise their brains a bit before speaking.
Rolando McClain Cowboys LB 4 games, substance abuse
Rats:
http://now.nfl.com/sharenow/58430d7b-dbc4-4e23-997d-b3b6cab2fa11
These guys should be more concerned with the Colts defense [sic].
And the Colts had a different atmosphere. Now I understand.
When were the Coltsā balls tested? What was the PSI on the Coltsā balls? What were the PSI measurements on the Pats balls before Kensil tampered with them at halftime?
You canāt suggest that the two teamsā balls behaved differently unless you have before and after PSI measurements recorded for the dozen balls from each team. Without that information, there is nothing to talk about. Given the importance the NFL has suddenly placed on ball inflation and given that this was a sting operation hatched the week prior to the game (see rats above), Iām sure the NFL carefully recorded all that data. Right? I mean, they have finally honed game ball procedures (well except for the fact that one employee was stealing game balls and another was tampering with inflation pressures at halftime).
I recognize that schadenfreude is a base emotion, but I will admit that Iām enjoying watching long time Pats-hater Ryan Grigson (Colts, Eagles, Rams) squirm and turn on long time Pats-hater Mike Kensil (Jets, Jets, Jets!). Itās pretty clear at this point that Grigson and Kensil conspired to try to set up the Pats and Belichick, and failed miserably.
Iād like to believe that the allegation that the Colts were responsible for deflating the football that Jackson intercepted (the only one that was found to be significantly deflated) is, in Paganoās words, ludicrous. But given that Jackson has said the ball did not feel deflated when he intercepted it, and that it was then in the Coltsā possession for 20 minutes before Grigson handed it over to Kensil, you have to at least consider it as a real possibility.
Hopefully Ted Wells is thoroughly investigating this. At this point, Iām actually looking forward to the Wells report, as itās clear they have absolutely nothing on the Patriots, but they may well have something on the Colts, Grigson and Kensil. If only they could sweep Harbaugh and the Ravens into the conspiracy, weād have the trifecta! I know itās too much to hope that an NFL-commissioned investigation is ever going to be critical of the NFL, but weāll see. It would be sweet.
The thing Iāve learned watching football science videos is that we are talking so little air volume in a football that just testing it lowers the PSI by significant amounts (.25 psi). So, if those two nimrods Grigson and Kensil stood on the Colts sidelines slapping each other on the back and screaming āwe got 'em this timeā while ātestingā the Pats ball three or four times, they lowered the inflation by 1 PSI or so, In effect, tampering with it. Add their stupidity to the 1.5 PSI average drop that Belichick found when testing multiple balls balls inflated to 12.5 psi and prepared exactly as the Pats prepared them and taking them outside in similar temperature conditions and youāve got ā the 3 Stooges Sting Operation.
And Grigson is no mental giant. Heās the idiot who traded a 1st round draft pick for Trent Richardson. Nyuck, Nyuck, Nyuck.
BTW, knowing that the reporter who first floated the theory of the Colts tampering with the balls has been given āon backgroundā information from Belichick in this case, I suspect that the Pats have video of Grigson and Kensil deflating the Pats ball on the sideline. I donāt think the Patriots have fired their entire arsenal of drone strikes yet.
The only possible explanation for Grigson opening his mouth about crying to the League before the AFC Championship game is that he is trying to get out in front of something in the Wells report. Especially since a league spokesman (either Blandino or Vincent) had previously lied about it
And Ravens coach Harbaugh used some interesting weasel words in his combine presser, saying he had nothing to do with ball investigation āper seā. Huh? What does he mean by āper seā? He did reveal that people in the Ravens organization had been interviewed. Say what? Ravens have been interviewed, but not Belichick or Brady?.
Both teamsā footballs were measured at halftime. The Coltsā footballs were legal. The Patsā footballs were not. Oh, except for that one mysterious properly-inflated football, which was somehow immune to the special Pats climate in force during the first half.
And yet somehow that magical Patriot climate had no effect on ball pressure in the second half:
http://mmqb.si.com/2015/01/23/deflategate-patriots-super-bowl-xlix/
So weird.