Chris G

Here is the article about the Pats "fumble" issues. The article doesn't explain they wanted the balls to be deflated legally, but that they lobbied for each time to provide their own footballs. The rub was the home QB got to pick the balls. The away QBs didn't think that was fair. To go from league average to tops by a large margin for a long period of time after being given the ability to provide their own balls...is quite a large "anomaly" http://www.sharpfootballanalysis.com/blog/2015/the-new-england-patriots-mysteriously-became-fumble-proof-in-2007