Well, it could be the other way. It could well be that in a private meeting Goodell said, "Look, you want to go through with this? Tom, that means you gotta produce your phone. I don't know what's on it, but you gotta produce it.Posted on 05/19/2015 1:14:16 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: Oh, we got a flash: "Patriots Will Not Appeal Deflategate Decision." You know, there have been all kinds of secret meetings going on over the past 24 hours between Goodell and Robert Kraft, between the NFL and the Patriots. The sports media was starting to get breathing heavy, thinking that some sort of compromise had been reached. Because in the Drive-By Media, their template/their narrative is that Goodell is a jerk, that Goodell does nothing but screw up every time he hands out this penalties.
And that Goodell therefore knows he's a jerk, and Goodell knows he screwed up here, and Goodell is looking for a way out, and that's why he went to the Patriots under cover of darkness, and they're trying to get out of this thing without an appeal and without a lawsuit. The press is trying to tell us that means Goodell knows he's made a big mistake here and he's offering a way out, and they don't know what it is. Maybe eliminate the fine of $1 million or maybe not take the two draft choices.
I've thought all along this suspension's gonna be two games. You remember me saying that. So we'll see what happen. With the Patriots now saying they're not gonna appeal, they have to have been given something, would you not conclude? (interruption) Well, it could be the other way. It could well be that in a private meeting Goodell said, "Look, you want to go through with this? Tom, that means you gotta produce your phone. I don't know what's on it, but you gotta produce it.
"Are you sure you guys want to go through with this?" Because I'm telling you: There's much more going on here than just Deflategate. Spygate, who knows? I mean, it could be that way. It could be that Goodell took his good buddy Kraft and said, "Bob, look, man. This is gonna get worse than it is now if we go. You gotta pull back, man. You just gotta let this happen and back off." That's one way.
The other way -- the preferred storyline from Drive-By Media -- is that Goodell stepped in it, knows he stepped in it, wants a way out, and has gone to his buddy Kraft to let him off the hook with most of the penalties removed. That's the Drive-By Media. That's what they're all predicting will happen here. So it's one of two things, and I have just given you the two possible scenarios.
Ball deflation already has mandated penalties, that’s not new. The commissioner has the right under the rules to impose the penalties he chose.
The fact that the game was not close is meaningless. Just like the fact that a speeder on the road didn’t injure anyone is meaningless.
There are always more serious things going on than football.
That’s why football takes care of itself.
The Patriots are repeat offenders at cheating and probably took the deal to keep more things from coming out.
Brady can appeal and the Patriots’ ownership has decided to take their medicine.
Now you can go worry about all those more important things you mentioned, so you should be happy.
And this wasn't about one game.
Yea, and if you get caught you get punished!
Maybe he knows his team can still kick the shiite muslim out of every team in the league even spotting them 4 games without Brady.
Why should it be? They beat the Seahawks with fully inflated balls. The Seahawks would have won if they weren’t retarded. Skittles should have got the handoff.
(Yeah, that's why Kraft had written the NFL the week of the Colts' game, saying to beware of the Colts' underinflated footballs...oh, wait a minute...I got that backwards: 'Twas the Colts' GM that did that 'bout Patriot footballs!)
They weren't playing in a pelting pain, where fumbles tend to be more frequent, and passes aren't as readily nabbed.
They were under inflated (first three tested, then they found one that was not and quit testing) at half time. After the game, all the Patriots footballs were still inflated well enough, but 3/4 of the Colts team balls were not.
Possible, but very difficult to prove.
The NFL uses an inexpensive and not particularly accurate gauge to test the game balls. Model CJ-01 (Pg 172)
Yes they ran a test where someone could let 'some' air out of each of the balls in one minute 40 sec.
But they do not tell us the pressure drop of each ball. http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/Deflategate.pdf
Kraft said, “So in that spirit I don’t want to continue the rhetoric that’s gone on for the last four months.”
In my mind, the key word here is “rhetoric”. Kraft wants us to stop talking about the Patriots being cheaters, and if he can get people to stop talking about their cheating just a little sooner, he’ll accept the NFL’s punishment.
However, his acquiescing won’t get that asterisk to disappear. This is the second asterisk the Patriots have next to their name, and neither one will disappear any time soon.
A few teams have been penalized for infractions...put in perspective, none of those actions call into question competitive outcomes.
Ha. Maybe not to you.
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