Bill Belichick and the Patriots were able to tell something was off with the kicking balls in their Week 15 loss to the Chiefs.
The Patriots coach said they were “aware” that the kicking balls for Sunday’s game were underinflated by multiple pounds in the first quarter, confirming MassLive’s Mark Daniels’s report. He pointed to some of the oddities in kicks made by Patriots rookie Chad Ryland and Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker, with each missing field goals in the first quarter, as reasons to believe something was off.
“Well, the officials handle that and they were underinflated by 2-2.