[Michael Sam entering veteran combine. How many participants will there be?]

Sam will obviously headline an intriguing first class at the veteran combine, a project aimed at giving a second chance to players who have washed out of the NFL too quickly.

 

 

Publicity stunt.  Inviting Sam guarantees media coverage.  I doubt a single attendee will parley this into a training camp invite...except maybe Sam.  Again, for all the wrong reasons.  

[The nfl needs to fix how the draft order is determined]

The draft is fine.  The salary cap is fine.  The NFL is fine.  There are minor flaws in their system -- the so called 'suck for Luck' campaign, the final exhibition game, and the 'rest' games at the end of a season come to mind -- but, generally, this somewhat flawed system has created opportunity for every team and competitive balance every season -- parity.

 

We see year after year that draft position is no guarantee of success (the mvp of the SB was a sixth round pick and the guy he gave the truck to wasn't drafted at all).

 

The last time Dallas played Indianapolis, Indy was the better team.  For that reason, the system is giving Dallas a little better opportunity to improve.  That is what parity is all about and that is why everyone watches NFL Football.

[NFL poll: Who's the biggest challenger to the Patriots in 2015?]

Let's be honest. The patriots didn't deserve to win that game. We all saw it. The better team lost on a freakish bonehead play. This thread should be who is the biggest threat to seattle. Patriots won't even make the AFCCG next year.

Don't you think the 'better' team got in the red zone on a 'freakish' play?  Their offense was a bunch of hail marys.  

[Grigson has some explaining to do...]

Goodness, that just doesn't make any sense at all. 

 

If only one ball was underinflated to an extent which could not be attributed to environmental issues, and one ball was handed to the refs by a colt official, and no one noted which ball was turned over by the colt, then it is possible that the deflated ball was deflated on the colt sideline and handed over to the refs.  That's all.  

[Grigson has some explaining to do...]

Well.....   we know it was Grigson who contacted the NFL during the first half of the AFC Championship game.

 

I don't think that is in dispute.

 

What is unknown is....   did Grigson contact the NFL prior to the AFC Championship game to alert the league?

 

Could have been after the regular season game when Mike Adams picked off Brady twice.    Maybe he noticed something?

 

But even if he did,  I don't see a problem here.   If you think you've detected cheating by the opposing team,  what's the problem alerting the league office?

 

I don't think there's much explaining to do.....     And all that explaining is not going to come until the NFL finishes conducting it's investigation.

 

I think deflategate is a dead issue.  The NFL let this spin out of control and now it looks like most of the leaked information is at least suspect.  SI is saying only one ball was underinflated and Michael David Smith is saying that Grigson initiated the investigation.  If it turns out that Grigson initiated the investigation and no one can prove that the one underinflated ball is not the ball that was on the Colts sideline, then there might be a different problem.  I doubt anyone will prove that the ball was deflated by a Patriot or a Colt, but this could be a career ender for the commish and a black eye for the Colts.