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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: wmfights

I mean, what was the final score.... 45-7? It didn’t matter if the balls were deflated or not...the Colts got killed. My point is that the “crime” is simply not the big deal some people are making it out to be.


221 posted on 05/08/2015 5:31:01 PM PDT by driftless2
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To: servo1969
If anyone should be suspended it's the incompetent referees


222 posted on 05/08/2015 5:32:01 PM PDT by McGruff (What did Hillary know and when did she know it?)
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To: Hot Tabasco
Rice's crimes were documented and proven and had there been a swift judicial system, he wouldn't have missed a game. Brady's still remain heresay..............

No more so than the accusations against Hillary are hearsay.

And, NFL is a court. The league doesn't need proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

223 posted on 05/08/2015 5:33:00 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: chris37
And how much did Brady say he wanted them to weigh? I mean precisely.

Only he and the ball boys know that.

That being said, Brady openly said he liked the ball a bit deflated in interviews.

224 posted on 05/08/2015 5:34:50 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: DoodleDawg

That’s fine, and I get that, but all you are really saying is that they don’t have any proof.


225 posted on 05/08/2015 5:35:24 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless)
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To: chris37
Well, as I said, those texts could have been them joking

Joking about what other than deflating the balls?

226 posted on 05/08/2015 5:36:02 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: servo1969

227 posted on 05/08/2015 5:36:04 PM PDT by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant.)
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To: wmfights
It would be like if I complained when my Badgers got crushed by Ohio St. 59-0 in the Big Ten title game, and it was found out the Buckeyes had deliberately messed with the footballs. All the other Badgers fans would laugh.

We got killed by a much better Ohio St. team. It wouldn't have mattered what they did with the footballs. Blocking and tackling with football games...not under-inflated footballs. Just get on with things.

228 posted on 05/08/2015 5:37:32 PM PDT by driftless2
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To: Kazan

Yes, I know, there is a one lbs variation allowed. A bit deflated does not necessarily mean illegally deflated.

Maybe it does, but maybe it doesn’t.

Aaron Rodgers like his over inflated. Is Rodgers confessing to rule breaking in that preference?


229 posted on 05/08/2015 5:38:30 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless)
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To: Kazan

Joking about deflating balls.

Is there a rule against that too?

Like I said there is a 1 lbs variation allowed.


230 posted on 05/08/2015 5:39:39 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless)
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To: DoodleDawg
The NFL is not a court of law. They set their own standards for evidence and proof.

Right. Which is why if they suspend Brady on nothing more than suspicion, the NFL becomes as corrupt as anything in Washington DC.

231 posted on 05/08/2015 5:42:02 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Gargantua

What exactly is liberal about expecting some integrity and consequences when it is missing?! Or, is this your favorite team and only response is throwing out insults?


232 posted on 05/08/2015 5:42:24 PM PDT by Reno89519 (For every illegal or H1B with a job, there's an American without one. Muslim = Nazi = Evil)
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To: Canedawg

Yeah. He shouldn’t be a Brady jock-sniffer.

He should be more like the standard bovine, mindless, adolescent 16 year old football fans that whine because they can’t understand that sometimes a team wins because they are disciplined and practice hard, and not because the refs had it out for their team, or the other team cheated.

Like 90% of the vitriol you read on these forums.


233 posted on 05/08/2015 5:45:16 PM PDT by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant.)
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To: servo1969

Brady to receive heavier penalty for wanting balls with lower pressure in a couple of football games... then hillary has for exposing (at a minimum) classified information to enemies of the United States.

He’s going to receive a stricter penalty then hillary will for deliverying 400 missiles to the enemy


234 posted on 05/08/2015 5:51:59 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Gargantua

Truth be told I’ve been here since before sign up dates. And originally all I did was lurk. But a nickname was required to access the forum. It was weeks after I joined before I worked up the nerve to actually post something.

Now it’s durned near impossible to shut me up. Funny how things change over the years.

Enjoy your weekend.

L


235 posted on 05/08/2015 6:00:09 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: CedarDave

GMs are not coaches. And you aren’t allowed to use cell phones in the stadium to talk to the sidelines no matter what position you are in the organization. It is in the rules.


236 posted on 05/08/2015 6:09:07 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: servo1969

Certainly the lowly Patriots would have been fortunate to have gone 2-14 if the balls had been blown up a pound or two more!!

What an absolutely ridiculous ‘scandal’ this whole thing is. Brady and the Pats would have been NFL champs using a rugby ball for f@ck’s sake!


237 posted on 05/08/2015 6:09:16 PM PDT by Husker8877
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To: austinaero
Didn’t both teams play with the same ball? This is stupidity and insanity all rolled into one big pile of stink.

Nope. They switch balls. Different ball for kicking, punting, offense of each team.

Yes, it is a big pile of stink. It started when team 1 calls team 2 and says, I think the Pats cheat, watch out. Team 2 calls the NFL before the game to complain about cheating. None of the officials notice anything wrong with the balls but!!!! Magic halftime show where some of the balls are under inflated, some aren't, and the two gauges used don't agree on one single measurement, the closest is 0.4 psi. That's a huge difference.

238 posted on 05/08/2015 6:29:27 PM PDT by Ophiucus
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To: DoodleDawg
If Brady deliberately cheated then what do you think should happen to him?

The same thing that happened to Shoeless Joe Jackson.

239 posted on 05/08/2015 6:34:23 PM PDT by CapnJack
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To: FredZarguna
The refs believed the balls were light. Rather than stop the game, rather than stop the game, the NFL waited and weighed them at half-time. 11 of 12 balls were two or more lbs. below the limit.

Only one ball was two pounds below the limit and only on one gauge that read .4 psi lower than the other. The balls ranged between 12.3 and 11.0 with one coming in at 10.9/ 10.5 on the low gauge with was known to read lower.

They were still low but not as egregious as two pounds each. Three of the four blasts tested of the Colts, three were below pressure on the official league gauge, but ok on the Pats gauge - ranging 12.15 to 12.3

240 posted on 05/08/2015 6:41:31 PM PDT by Ophiucus
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