10 REASONS WHY AN APPEAL OVERTURNS TOM BRADY’S SUSPENSION

Breitbart.com ^ | 5-12-2015 | DANIEL J. FLYNN

[servo1969]

Here are the top-ten reasons why an honest and impartial arbiter will toss the suspension:

#10. Ted Wells Judges 100 Seconds Enough Time to Deflate Balls But 13 Minutes Not Long Enough for Refs to Test Balls?

#9 Wells Report Labels Texts Undermining Case a ‘Joke,’ Texts Buttressing Case Dead Serious

#8. Ted Wells Doesn’t Really Know the Pregame Pressure Levels

#7 After Relying on Walt Anderson’s ‘Best Recollection,’ Wells Disregards It

#6. The Refs and Their Gauges Fluctuated Greatly

#5 The NFL Doesn’t Punish for Ball Tampering

#4. Wells Report Misleadingly Says Pats Shielded Ball Handler from Follow-Up Interview

#3 A Whole Lot of ‘More Probably Than Not’ Adds Up to Unlikely

#2 Wells Cherry Picks Data by Relying on Best Pressure Readings from Colts, Worst Ones from Patriots

#1 NFL Uses Different Ball Pressure Standard for Pats and Colts

[notdownwidems]

Cletus I hope you don’t mind me suggesting that you take a course in logic.

[CTyank]

Goodell has opened a can of woop ass and is a lot more likely to lose his job before Brady misses a single game....
http://espn.go.com/blog/boston/new-england-patriots/post/_/id/4781454/do-you-support-nobradynobanner

[Wheelman81]

It sure does not sound like there ever was conclusive evidence, but I confess to bias: I live in MA and am a Pats fan. But I was watching the game in question, and the Colts stunk out the joint so badly that the Patriots’ cheerleaders could have beaten them. Go back and watch the earlier Ravens game. No one would have beaten the Pats unless they had allowed it!

[Ingtar]

The historical chances of losing the ball on a quarterback sneak are much greater than the zero turn-overs history of that pass attempt before that play. NE was keyed on Wilson and Lynch. Carroll thought it best to go with the safest pass in the game.

[Psalm 73]

"...the Patriots lost their two pro-bowl caliber cornerbacks to free agency."

There are two ways to skin that cat - a crushing pass-rush is a good replacement for exceptional cornerbacks.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Nope, no offense taken. It’s just football.

I’m thinking that provided that rhetoric, logic and philosophy are rampant within the NFL coaching ranks, I’ll take it up with Jon Gruden.

[NKP_Vet]

Seahawks lost because of Brady shredding their defense. They were lucky to have even been in the title game. A banged up Arizona team, playing a third string quarterback lead them in the NFC West until the last game of the year. Seattle HAS to have home field to beat the Packers, then they lucked out when they were outplayed except for the last 4 minutes of the game when Packers self-destructed. So no, they didn’t blow the game to the Patriots. They were lucky to even be playing them.

[Windflier]

The whole damn world is blowing up, and all I hear about is gawddamned ‘inflate-gate’. Even Rush can’t seem to stop talking about it.

I am so sick of this non-story, I wish I could punch the next person who brings it up.

[xzins]

My sense of the football difference of a few pounds is that the ball feels minimally different. That difference would not make it easier for Brady to throw passes through a swinging tire hanging from a tree. That would have been skill at any pressure.

[NKP_Vet]

I think the “deflator” knew Brady liked his footballs a certain way and made sure they were not over-inflated. I guarantee other equipment men do the exact same on others. I don’t think the “deflator” ever meant to have a foot under the prescribed standards. I think Brady trusted him. I also think when it’s all said and done Brady misses no games and the draft picks will be reinstated. Roger Goodell is trying to make an example out of Brady because of looking like an idiot in the Ray Rice affair.

[Colofornian]

People who don’t really know what they’re talking about shouldn’t write columns like this. E.g., they offered to go to whatever convenient location at whatever time to get what would have been for Wells only a second opportunity to interview The Deflator.

Yes.

Re: lame 4th talking point of an "Apologetic for Cheaters": Wells Report Misleadingly Says Pats Shielded Ball Handler from Follow-Up Interview

Even a Boston newspaper notes...:
The Patriots refused to make McNally available for a follow-up interview after the investigators discovered new information, ostensibly the “deflator” comments in McNally’s texts. Their rationale was that McNally already had been interviewed four times, and a fifth time would have been excessive, because he lives in New Hampshire and has a job. Sorry. You make him available on the weekend, or after work. If McNally could exonerate the Patriots, they should have made him available 27 times...
Patriots done in by their own defiance [Boston columnist raises Deflategate's open questions]

Where did I read that the Patriots, when told by the investigator they had new info they wanted to run by McNally for a 5th interview, told the NFL they wouldn't even pass it on to McNally.

That's not "shielding?"

('Tis a strange def)

[Colofornian]

#5 The NFL Doesn’t Punish for Ball Tampering

Whatever similarities (re: what other teams have done), as far as I can tell, the culprits didn't engage in an overt coverup.

Some of the other ball tampering has been suspected, but no "sting" operations during the games were engaged in to yield more evidence.

And, indeed, some writers are using the word "sting" because the Colts GM complained about this issue to the NFL BEFORE that playoff game.

IoW, the officiating crew was tipped off by the NFL to be aware of ball cheating.

This matter could readily be compared to any "sting" operation by law enforcement officials.

A "sting" catches somebody in the act.

And all the times that sting doesn't happen means the cheaters & the criminals are getting off scot free.

This statement therefore wreaks of a conclusion that just because law enforcement fails to perform more sting ops, the laws on the books for whatever violation that is "goes unpunished."

[Colofornian]

#6. The Refs and Their Gauges Fluctuated Greatly

(IF that was the case...so does a LOT of NBA officiating...it's become more subjective as players became more physical thru the decades...yet I haven't heard writers like this one whine about the entire tenor of whistles blown during playoffs just because many fouls are "let go" and some nonfouls are called)

If that was the case EVERY NBA victory of any closer game could be called into question.

[Colofornian]

#3 A Whole Lot of ‘More Probably Than Not’ Adds Up to Unlikely

The author should go on & whine 'bout 100% of civil suits settled by this standard...

[Colofornian]

#10. Ted Wells Judges 100 Seconds Enough Time to Deflate Balls But 13 Minutes Not Long Enough for Refs to Test Balls?

I see the author was REALLY desperate for anything to fill out a #10

Refs don't practice weighing balls all week...Equipment mgrs knowing they have a limited amount of time can certainly do that...

100 seconds? Give an NFL team out of timeouts 100 literal seconds ... including clock time stoppage for first downs...and that's an "eternity" to run 11 plays, if necessary. If they can run 11 plays with great mobility over a 100 yard field in 100 literal seconds, a guys who is stationary and has plenty of locker room practice (either pregame and/or what they've done EVERY week going back to 2007 or however long they've been employed) would have no sweat accomplishing this 11 football task.

[screaming eagle2]

Tom Brady may get his appeal, but he has been exposed for the jerk he truly is.

[Mad Dawgg]