by Daniel Dullum

GLENDALE AZ–It might sound like New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick is throwing quarterback Tom Brady under the bus about Deflategate and that’s because simply he is. Belichick was alluding to the quarterback who has the final say on how the footballs are inflated for game use. Radio analyst John Madden mentioned for commentary that he strongly feels that it’s the quarterback or whoever else and not the coach that their the ones who get behind this sort of thing.

Then Madden added that place kickers, punters, will try to make adjustments on the inflation of the football depending on their purposes. I was a little surprised to see Belichick basically throw the quarterback under the bus like that with the Super Bowl about a week and half away. Coming away from Spygate it doesn’t help Belichick and his name in some circles is Belicheat.

This matter doesn’t help Belichick at all I often wondered if this whole situation is not by design and that it has to do with head games. Their willing to do these nickel dime things just to create something to talk about other than the Super Bowl. Brady explained to the press about what happened and he said all the right things.

When called before the media what he said and what he didn’t are two different things, were really never going to know after this incident the No Fun League (NFL) will make sure one of their minions inflates the balls the proper way for the upcoming Super Bowl and there will be no differential on any of them. As a head coach inflating footballs are one of the things you don’t pay attention to you would assume that sort of thing has been taken care of.

Belichick is coach he has other things to take care of in general and what he’s saying is that he’s been questioned about the air pressure on the footballs and he said you need to talk to my quarterback. Quarterbacks have been doing this for years this is just a higher profile team in a higher profile game there is nothing new about this. I remember in the first four Super Bowls that were strictly AFL versus NFL the AFL ball was made by Spalding.

The ball was slightly slimmer than the NFL football was which was made by Wilson “the Duke” which they still use. It was agreed when the AFL team was on offense they would use an AFL ball or visa versa that’s a different set of circumstances it was worth noting that was sometime ago since they did that. It’s nothing new if a quarterback says he needs a number of balls slightly under inflated to where he could grip it and no one would notice maybe someone got to the ball and fixed it up that way.

Daniel Dullum is covering the Pro Bowl and the Super Bowl for http://www.sportsradioservice.com