Posted on 05/08/2015 12:58:14 PM PDT by drewh
Tom Brady's offseason might extend until 2016 if the NFL decides to drop the hammer on the Patriots quarterback and at least one report is indicating that the league could slam the hammer down hard.
According to the Miami Herald, Brady could be suspended for up to one year thanks to the part he played in Deflategate.
"Everything is being studied. Everything is being considered," an NFL source told the Herald.
Brady's punishment could end up being a shorter suspension, but the source told the Herald not to dismiss the possibility of a year-long suspension.
The Patriots quarterback, along with locker attendant Jim McNally and equipment assistant John Jastremski are the three people most likely to be disciplined, according to ESPN.
The 243-page Wells report found that Brady was "at least generally aware of the inappropriate activities of McNally and Jastremski involving the release of air from Patriots game balls."
In the report, Wells also noted that Brady refused to turn over his phone and other personal information for investigative purposes.
Brady's refusal to help the investigation could end up being one of the big reasons he's hit with a potentially big suspension.
In the NFL's Policy on Integrity of the Game & Enforcement of Competitive Rules, the league notes that "Failure to cooperate in an investigation shall be considered conduct detrimental to the League and will subject the offending club and responsible individual(s) to appropriate discipline."
Brady's decision to not fully cooperate in the investigation was duly noted in the Wells report.
"Brady's refusal to provide us with his own records on relevant topics, in response to our tailored requests, limited the evidence available for our review and analysis," the report said.
Whatever Brady's punishment ends up being, it will likely be handed down sometime in the near future.
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Really? So if they intercept, they play with the same ball but when they switch to their own offense they bring out a different ball?
Nothing illusory about it. Athletes aren’t paid to be role models, they’re paid to compete in their sports. And most of them tend to be pretty flawed people. I grew up in the North Dallas 40 era when we all knew athletes were mostly womanizing alcoholics and shouldn’t be role models. Role models come from the home, that’s the job of parents.
My view is 2-4 weeks suspension is the reasonable penalty. It’s the equivalent of throwing spitters. There’s also lying and refusing to cooperate. The evidence is strong against him. (They keep using the phrase “more probable than not” because that is the standard of proof in an NFL investigation, just as it is in a lawsuit in a courtroom. You can win or lose millions of dollars, or custody of kids, when it is more probable than not that you did something. I think the evidence, now that we have read the texts and the summary of the report, is a lot stronger than 51/49 against Brady).
But the offense is not that great. A misdemeanor, not a felony, like SpyGate was. Slap him upside the head and be done with it.
I don’t know if they want to end his career. But they don’t want to appear soft on the Pats and their Golden Boy. So they will land on him. But anything past 4 games is dumb, 2 is a stretch. Of course as a Steelers fan I’m totally cool with 1.
I think you just nailed it. This "Scandal" serves three purposes. It deflects the masses from real issues (like what about Mrs. Clinton's emails). It provides a "Two Minute Hate" for the masses (much better to have the plebs ragging on Brady than worrying about trivialities like jobs). It punishes an "enemy of the State".
What I’m worried about is the “taste of blood” syndrome in the press. What larger feather in a commentator’s cap than Brady’s scalp?
Purposes exist in life (job descriptions including)...and then there are by products (role modeling)
If you were right, Collins of LSU would have gone in the first or second rounds of the draft.
If Collins' on the field ability was all that mattered, then he'd probably not be a Cowboy today.
From what I have seen of the Bell report that can't conclusively prove anything, it's speculation on what happened.
Also the part in the report where they conclude that the guy handling the footballs somehow was able to juggle 13 footballs and deflate them in about 100 seconds defies reality to me. Can that be done in the atmosphere of getting ready for a playoff game? You will have to prove it to me.
Nonsense. Ask the alphabets if they want to show a game without one of the top three quarterbacks in the game.
With such a thing as a simple ballbag, no "juggling" needed.
My understanding is one football was normal ...other 11 weren't...so "airing out" 13 balls not even the correct #...
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 couple of guys who are stationary and have 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.
Collins pulled himself from the draft because all parties recognized there’d be a lot of negative noise with him on the draft board. But that’s publicity, not being a role model.
It would be nice if athletes were role models. But this is reality, and out here in reality they haven’t been since at least Babe Ruth. And any parent who finds their kids getting role models from sports needs to seriously question the situation at home.
Ya know when a guy is uncooperative in an investigation, he's basically "volunteering" his scalp.
Brady probably has a few hundred mil in the bank, has a super-model wife that probably makes more than he does ... exactly why does Tom need the NFL? If NFL HQ drops anything larger than a nasty letter on Brady, he gives them the middle finger on his way out the door into a retirement we can only dream of.
Yes, they do.
I hope not, all the allegations are still heresay.............
As a side note, if anyone thinks this is the first time footballs may have been under inflated, they're living in an alternative universe.
If this is such a problem then the NFL should allow all the teams to inflate the balls to whatever pressure they want.
That way each team will get the perception they have an advantage with their own choice of ball pressure selection and everyone will be happy........
End of controversy.........
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