Did Roger Goodell Inflate Report to Prove Tom Brady Deflated Balls?

     If so what Brady is accused of pales in comparison. With Brady now facing his appeal process this could end up very similar to what happened to the Saints players accused of Bountygate. 

     http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2015/05/regarding-tom-brady-has-stephen-smith.html

     According to an investigation by the AEI, there are real questions with the Well Report itself. Basically it claims to have used methods of proof it didn't use. Brady has been looking not just for a few games knocked off his suspension but total exoneration. If this AEI investigation of the Wells Report is accurate that is exactly what he should get. 

    This is about more than just losing a few days of pay or not being able to play though that is part of it. The bigger issue is the attempt by some to use Deflategate to sully his good name. It's good to see that his Rortian peers-in the sense of Richard Rorty's theory of  'Truth is what my peers let me get away with'

    http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/284543-truth-is-what-your-contemporaries-let-you-get-away-with

    are speaking up for him. 

     "While the NFL and lots of fans have flipped out about Deflategate and Tom Brady's suspension, some notable figures in the football community have essentially shrugged. Joe Montana told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, "It's no big deal." Recently retired NFL running back Maurice Jones-Drew had similar thoughts, telling us, "If you're not cheating, you're not trying." Here's more from Jones-Drew:"

     http://www.thepostgame.com/blog/daily-take/201506/maurice-jones-drew-tom-brady-deflategate-football-nfl-cheat-legacy

      "Patriots quarterback Tom Brady is receiving support from a surprising colleague: Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs."

     "Suggs says Brady, who is suspended for the first four games of the season for Deflategate, still has a sterling reputation in the NFL for what he’s done on the field."

     “The guy is a winner,” Suggs said, via ESPN. “He’s won with whatever kind of personnel that he’s had. So I don’t think it really tarnished it.”

      "Suggs indicated that the media have made Deflategate a bigger deal than it deserves to be."

     http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/06/18/terrell-suggs-tom-bradys-legacy-isnt-tarnished-by-deflategate/

     I'm very skeptical that even if the balls were deflated this would be such a big edge anyway. There is a case for letting each QB have the ball how he prefers-some like Aaron Rogers actually prefer it more inflated than regulation. 

    However, what AEI argues is that the Wells Report doesn't establish what it claims to-that the balls in fact were deflated:

   "Tom Brady is said to be seeking total exoneration, and it appears he’s entitled to it. The idea that Brady and the New England Patriots intentionally deflated footballs for a competitive advantage has been discredited by everyone from sidewalk chemists to Web physicists to unlicensed ceramicists, not to mention your own common sense. But most importantly, it is utterly shredded in a new scientific analysis by the American Enterprise Institute, which shows the only inflation problem is in NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell’s head."

    "The NFL paid millions for a fundamentally flawed report by lawyer Ted Wells that made Brady and the Patriots out to be slam-dunk guilty, based on more than 100 pages of mathematical analysis of ball pressurization . . . that turns out to be erroneous. The AEI’s report totally rejects the finding that the footballs used by the Patriots in the AFC championship game had a significant drop in air pressure compared with those used by the Colts. But the truly damning sentence is this one, buried in its erudite phrasings and equations: “The Wells report’s statistical analysis cannot be replicated by performing the analysis as described in the report,” the AEI concludes.

     "Basically, the math didn’t add up. It’s a standard principle in science: If you can’t replicate a set of results, then there is a problem with it. A flaw or a fraud is at work. Either you made a mistake, or you made it up."

     http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/redskins/as-brady-appeal-nears-roger-goodell-is-stuck-in-a-corner-of-his-own-creation/2015/06/17/a5fcbaa6-1456-11e5-89f3-61410da94eb1_story.html

     

    You know if you claim to have gotten the answer 5 by adding 2+2 something is askew somewhere. 

    I'm guessing Brady might cite this at his appeal. By the end of it maybe it will be Goodell rather than Brady who is truly tarnished. 

    UPDATE: The AEI isn't the only criticism of the Wells Report by any means.

    http://www.patspulpit.com/2015/5/6/8563271/deflategate-faulty-science-reason-work-in-the-wells-report