NFL Officiating Exec Dean Blandino: League Still ‘Evaluating’ PSI Information

It’s been more than a year now, but it sounds like we’re not very close to putting Deflategate fully behind us.

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell raised eyebrows earlier this week when he said the NFL collected PSI data during the 2015 season not as a research study, but rather as part of periodic”spot checks” after the controversy surrounding the New England Patriots and football air pressure last season.

Goodell told NFL Network’s Rich Eisen the spot checks were to “prevent and make sure the clubs understand we’re watching these issues.”

NFL vice president of officiating Dean Blandino weighed in Wednesday night on SiriusXM NFL Radio, saying the process — whatever that actually entails — still is ongoing.

“We did spot checks throughout the year and we measured PSI levels and recorded that information,” Blandino said, per Boston.com. “Right now we’re evaluating the information. We didn’t have any violations this year, but again, we’re still in that evaluation phase to look at the information and then we’ll see what that tell us.”

Or, perhaps put another way, the NFL still is trying to figure out how to make the most out of whatever findings it came upon in order to support its own claims. But who knows.

Goodell is scheduled to meet with the media Friday for his annual pre-Super Bowl news conference. He’ll likely face some questions about the ongoing investigation, but whether he actually gives any answers, of course, is an entirely different story.