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Tom Brady will be suspended by Goodell for role in DeflateGate, announcement next week
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS ^ | 5-8-2015 | Gary Myers

Posted on 05/08/2015 3:06:44 PM PDT by servo1969

Tom Brady will be the highest profile player ever suspended in the 96-year history of the NFL.

Roger Goodell's decision is expected to be announced next week and it is no longer a matter of if the NFL commissioner will suspend Brady, but for how long he will suspend him.

In conversations I've had with several key sources who always have a good sense of what goes on at 345 Park Avenue, there is little doubt Goodell considers Brady's role in DeflateGate a serious violation.

The NFL is convinced, according to sources, that connecting all the dots of the evidence supplied by Wells leads to one conclusion:

Brady cheated.

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Sports
KEYWORDS: brady; deflategate; football; goodell; nfl; patriots
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To: FredZarguna

From what I understand there is only an upper limit of how much the balls can be inflated not underinflated.


61 posted on 05/08/2015 3:39:20 PM PDT by bjorn14 (Woe to those who call good evil and evil good. Isaiah 5:20)
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To: Bidimus1
Nope. A mea culpa doesn't really have to be -- and quite often isn't -- a public act, and at the point where the NFL suspends him it's not interested in his admitting to it; he's regarded as guilty if he admits to it or not.

Auto-da-fé: "the ritual of public penance of condemned heretics," is more appropriate. He's already condemned once the NFL suspends him. The Auto-da-fé is performed to avoid harsher punishment. [You're still going to be burned, but you're saving your soul through the public admission.]

62 posted on 05/08/2015 3:39:56 PM PDT by FredZarguna (On your deathbed you will receive total consciousness. So I got that goin' for me.)
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To: driftless2

It’s cheating.


63 posted on 05/08/2015 3:40:56 PM PDT by FredZarguna (On your deathbed you will receive total consciousness. So I got that goin' for me.)
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To: chris37

The theory is they were modified after the ref inspection. Of course that brings up the silliness of how balls were handled with team employees having control of the balls for hours between inspection and game time. But showing the league is doing a bad job of handling their own rules doesn’t really help Brady’s case any. Embarrassing the guy handing out punishment rarely decreases the punishment.


64 posted on 05/08/2015 3:41:05 PM PDT by discostu (Bobby, I'm sorry you have a head like a potato.)
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To: chris37

No, they just wrote the report to the standard for discipline—which is “more likely than not”.

I’m a Pats fan and I think the various teams are trying to pull this stuff on each other all the time.

But he got caught, he should have kept his mouth shut rather than falsely denying it, and now he’ll take a hit for it..

But the Goodell and the league are a joke. A very wealthy joke, but a joke.


65 posted on 05/08/2015 3:41:54 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: servo1969

I try to feel sorry for this guy, but in the end he always seems to hold the ultimate trump card:

“Ok, you got me. I guess I’ll have to settle for going home and having sex with Gisele Bundchen...........

pbtpbtpbtpbtpbtpbtpbt-pfffffffffffffffff”


66 posted on 05/08/2015 3:42:12 PM PDT by I cannot think of a name
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To: Canedawg

I don’t care about Brady or his jock.

The NFL didn’t prove he did anything. That’s what I care about.

If you are going to take action against someone, you should first know that they actually did something.

The only thing more probable than not means to me is that they don’t know one way or the other.


67 posted on 05/08/2015 3:42:42 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

“what’s the over-under on how many games? My bet is two”

Both will be in RPE-SEASON. Count on it.


68 posted on 05/08/2015 3:43:25 PM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: discostu

In my eyes Goodell is embarrassing himself.


69 posted on 05/08/2015 3:44:48 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless)
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To: chris37
Please be serious.

The equipment guy doesn't benefit from under-inflating the ball. He doesn't care if the ball is under-, over- or goldilocks-inflated.

ONLY Brady benefits from this. Nobody else. And some subterfuge was used to get the balls past the normal inflation check. The claim that the one person on the field who benefits from this -- who clearly lied -- has not been "proven" to have done anything is an argument worthy of the Casey Anthony Jury.

But not serious people.

He cheated; only a moron would be unable to connect the dots.

70 posted on 05/08/2015 3:45:29 PM PDT by FredZarguna (On your deathbed you will receive total consciousness. So I got that goin' for me.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

It’s not related to snubbing 0bama. It’s been in the works for a while.


71 posted on 05/08/2015 3:46:39 PM PDT by FredZarguna (On your deathbed you will receive total consciousness. So I got that goin' for me.)
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To: tcrlaf

That would generate backlash. Nobody considers pre-season suspensions punishment, it’s a reward. Might be 2 pre and 2 regular. Vick got that when he got out of prison.


72 posted on 05/08/2015 3:46:40 PM PDT by discostu (Bobby, I'm sorry you have a head like a potato.)
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To: servo1969

Eh...I just have a hard time believing that low ball pressure makes that much difference to the outcome of a game. I’ve thrown and caught hundreds of footballs in my life and, yes, a softer ball is easier to catch, not so sure about throwing. But in my day, nobody used gloves to CATCH the ball. With the tacky gloves these receivers are wearing today, I am not sure how much difference ball pressure makes.

IMO, what they should do is have the NFL control possession of the game balls at all times. Establish an allowable range of air pressure and allow each team to select a pressure from within that range. The balls would be thrown and caught for some time prior to the game to “condition” them. The officials would pressurize the balls prior to each half of the game, and each offense would get to use the balls with the pressure they chose. I a professional quarterback cannot throw a ball inflated to 7 psi, maybe they need to try another profession.


73 posted on 05/08/2015 3:46:48 PM PDT by mtrott
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To: 9YearLurker

Maybe he did it, maybe he didn’t. My point is that the investigation did not come up with evidence that convinces me he did.

I am a Saints fan by the way, so I am not looking at this as a person who really wants Brady in the game, he’s just going to kick my teams butt somewhere along the line.

Still though, I need evidence to believe.


74 posted on 05/08/2015 3:47:19 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless)
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To: SandyInSeattle

“To see him laughing and smirking when asked about it bothered me”

This guy, the Patriots, and the NFL, are laughing at ALL OF US, all they way to the bank.

A 2-game suspension, likely served in PRE-SEASON? B.F’in.D. They are making 100 MILLION DOLLARS cheating their way to the Super Bowl, and could care less.

See?
CHEATING PAYS, and it pays big.


75 posted on 05/08/2015 3:47:53 PM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: GrootheWanderer

Yeah, the league says they can be between 12.5-13.5, and if the team presents them under the limit the league can inflate them.

Trouble is, the Pats staffer took the balls on a detour after they had been checked and approved by the officials—into the men’s room, which he locked, and where he apparently took some air out of each of the balls to get them under the limit.

The texts between the Pats equipment guys even have the one who took the balls into the locked bathroom calling himself “The Deflator”. They were joking about it and the needles, how upset Brady would be and was when they weren’t deflated right, and quoting Brady as understanding how stressful it was for the guy to get them all done.

Brady also had an hour phone call, a flurry of texts, and a first-ever invitation to the more senior of the staffers into the QB room while damage control was going on—and then Brady declined to hand over the relevant texts.

He’s pretty clearly guilty. But it’s the sort of thing the various teams are always trying to pull on each other.


76 posted on 05/08/2015 3:49:32 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: FredZarguna

What subterfuge?

Explain the subterfuge process that was employed here?

Tell me how he did it step by step.

It isn’t my job to connect dots, I never accused him of anything.

You want to paint a picture, there’s a paint brush and some paint.

Go.


77 posted on 05/08/2015 3:49:43 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless)
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To: chris37

Happens. In Goodell’s eyes Tom exposed a flaw in NFL procedure the bad way, then lied about it.

I think it’s a kerfuffle over nothing. A poorly written and worse executed rule and the league should admit it’s their fault. But kerfuffles matter, bad press matters. And of course by this time next year nobody will care. Except Pats opponents, they went 18-1 last time they played angry, with a lot of huge wins that embarrassed opponents.


78 posted on 05/08/2015 3:49:50 PM PDT by discostu (Bobby, I'm sorry you have a head like a potato.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Didn’t both teams play with the same ball? This is stupidity and insanity all rolled into one big pile of stink.

Goodell needs to go!


79 posted on 05/08/2015 3:49:58 PM PDT by austinaero
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To: chris37

You’re wrong. You are misinterpreting the conclusion.


80 posted on 05/08/2015 3:50:21 PM PDT by Canedawg (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.- George Orwell)
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