Bill Belichick’s Pursed Lips
Bill Belichick, The New England Patriot’s coach, makes pursed lips in his press interviews this week, and I can hear the people out there saying, “Oh, that indicates he is lying.”
That’s flat out not true. Pursed lips happen for a variety of reasons, and none of them indicate a person is lying.
While a lot of people lying will make this expression, a lot of honest people will make it too! I can assure you.
To read my thoughts on the Patriots, read my thoughts on Tom Brady here.
Pursed lips are not an absolute indicator of lying, but a lot of people on Twitter thought something else he did might have been a very large clue – but it was just a coincidence.
A LOT of people commented on Twitter that coach Belichick did his press conference about the deflated footballs in front of a sign that said Flexball. That’s actually a product made by Gillette, but a deflated football is more flexible than a football that is fully inflated. So twitter had fun over the hashtag #flexball, That doesn’t mean he cheated or lied, but a lot of people on Twitter seemed to draw that implication because of the #flexball sign right behind him. For example:
“You can’t make this up. The corporate logo behind Belichick for his #DeflateGate statement is “Flexball,”
“Maybe #Flexball isn’t the best backdrop when addressing allegations you under-inflated footballs”
“Did pats use Gillette #flexball ? Maybe not best backdrop for billy b. Just saying”
More info: http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/22/technology/social/patriots-flexball/index.html
‘Wasn’t expecting that to happen’ expression
You didn’t mention if you found him credible, but he seemed pretty credible to me. If he is credible how do you reconcile that with you finding Tom Brady dishonest?
I think he may have been completely dumbfounded and tried a little to hard to find the right things to say about a subject he knows nothing about. He may be thinking that everyone is insane this situation is eff’n ridiculous, but he can’t say that so he attempts to find more diplomatic words. His “I don’t believe so” may sound deceptive, but kinda makes sense cause the balls weren’t inflated to the proper PSI. At the time time he has no idea what affects the PSI. Maybe a staffer knew his preference for the balls being deflated as low as possible and was overzealous. That could be why he hedged. But now with the Patriots internal study, which was replicated by a company called HeadSmart Labs, if he were to give another press conference I bet he would sound a lot more confident, decisive, and credible.
That interviewed that aired before the Super Bowl, which I believe was conducted on Tuesday (1-27-15), was more of the same. So that blows my hypothesis out of the water.