News Article: Tom Brady likely knew of 'inappropriate activities,' Deflategate report says
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Brady has more to gain and nothing to lose. The punishment can only be four games max. I guess the only thing he can lose is if the suspension is later in the year due to an injunction
He'll come off looking like a whiner. He got caught cheating and should just take his punishment.
The NFLPA is going to fight it, too. Therefore, all players will look like whiners.
What's new about that? Brady has always been viewed as the unstoppable villian and Peyton as the peoples champ hero. And why should Brady care about that perception?He has 4 sb rings, a supermodel wife that makes more than him, and a career that 99% of his peers and haters can only dream of.
My point - you've got the players' union fighting for him. The PA reps on teams are talking about fighting it to the end. They don't want that type of punishment used on them whenever the time might come.
Agent: Tom Brady offered to provide NFL with AT&T phone records
If that is true and the NFL has no desire to view those records the Brady should release them to someone who could confirm his story. Would to a lot to restore his image...
They are literally making a federal case out of deflated balls. Now I am hoping that Brady gets caught perjuring himself and gets some jail time. Gisele will need some comforting while he is away.
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It does seem odd that the guy who originally suspended Brady also got to oversee the appeal. Is there anyway both Brady and Goodell can go down for this? I dislike both.
Goodell should've lost his job after going after James Harrison on a weekly basis for hitting people too hard. Then there is also the bounty story with the saints that blew up in his face, or perhaps the whole part of the ray rice story, and Adrian Peterson. Then you also have the issues that didn't involve discipline like the lockout and not paying referees. Goodell should've lost his job a long time ago, but I think if this is overturned in federal court then I think Brady and Kraft should sue goodell and the nfl to put an end to his incompetence once and for all.
In light of his cell phone destruction, we already know he's afraid of answering questions NOT under oath.
Furthermore.......there's a reason Gazillionaire Bob Kraft threw in the towel so early. I'm suspecting it's because even they're not convinced Brady is innocent.
I don't hate Brady at all like some folks do. So much of this has let the partisan edge of a lot of fans arise in both directions. Pats fans continue their delusional persecution complex ("It's NAWT fay-uh, they-uh HATE-uhs!") and fans of other teams who have lost get carried away in the other direction.
Incidentally, we're getting some double talk if y'all are listening. We went from, "We will fully cooperate with the investigation" back in February to Brady saying, "my attorneys made it clear to the NFL that my actual phone device would not be subjected to investigation under ANY circumstances." While folks can argue over legalities (and I'm no lawyer so I sit down at that point), the fact remains that the NFL is not the only one here allegedly saying one thing for public consumption and doing something else. There's a lot of points that could be made against the NFL here - but the problem is that if you look at it BOTH ways, the same could be said about Brady.
The question hasn't been "did Brady cheat" since March, it has been "can the nfl prove it?" The common belief was kraft accepted the punishment in hope that goodell would do Brady a favor in reducing the punishment. Now it goes to court in which hasn't been good for roger in the recent past
What we're finding is "it is more probable than not" that the NFL can't "prove it conclusively."
I'm beginning to think what Goodell should have done was say, "It's kind of complicated trying to prove anything here so what we will do is HENCEFORTH we will have a system in place to ensure no ball tampering can occur."
That would have been far better than what has happened so far. Let's be blunt: Brady could have been throwing aspirin tablets and they'd have beaten the Colts.
I wonder how many times they cheated before that helping them to get there?
Spygate, for one. "The Brady Rule" for another. I guess N.E. lives by the motto of "If you ain't cheatin', you ain' tryin."
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