by David Zizmor

As far as I’m concerned New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick can say whatever he wants regarding Deflategate, the NFL is not going to invalidate the Patriots victory one way or the other the concern is that the league believes the Pats purposely deflated the football and their going to loose some draft picks. That would certainly hurt them in order to build a good football team.

Belichick is asking the league to prove that the Pats have deflated in the AFC Championship game and that they did it over and over again. In the press conference the other day one of the things that Belichick was pointing out there were some footballs on the field for awhile and they needed some air and anyone whose played with a football kind of knows that.

The football gets inflated and overtime they lose air, with a professional football the ball is getting smacked around and being fallen on by giant 300 pound defenders and offensive linemen the air could get squished out a little bit faster. Whether the ball would deflate to the point to where the league has said that it was well below what the general measures according to the league standards.

It’s really not known what kind of studies the league has done in terms of deflated football games over time. Belichick will be brining that issue up over the course of Super Bowl week and he wants to defend his team and wants the league to prove he deflated and he wants to be able to draft without any hitches. No one knows who really deflated the footballs and it was asked of Patriots quarterback Tom Brady or it could have been an equipment guy, who knows it could have been anybody.

There is a chance it might have been nobody the ball could have just kind of deflated during the course of the game, the fact of the matter is if those balls made it onto the field and there’s a lot of protocols those balls go through before they ever get on that field you certainly would have to ask the officials. It’s a possibility that the balls lost air over time but really nobody knows.

It’s certainly a distraction going into the Super Bowl and Belichick is tired about having to answer questions about it when their supposed to be doing tons and tons of preparation to beat the Seahawks. Belichick just wants to get past it and wants to get some great draft picks in the future and go from there. How much is Deflategate being a distraction to the locker room is anyone’s guess you want to talk about a team that has been to six Super Bowls they certainly have a good idea on how to prepare for this sort of thing.

David Zizmor is covering Super Bowl XLIX and doing commentary and podcasts Super Bowl week for http://www.sportsradioservice.com