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.
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From what I understand there is only an upper limit of how much the balls can be inflated not underinflated.
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.]
It’s cheating.
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.
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.
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”
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.
“what’s the over-under on how many games? My bet is two”
Both will be in RPE-SEASON. Count on it.
In my eyes Goodell is embarrassing himself.
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.
It’s not related to snubbing 0bama. It’s been in the works for a while.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
You’re wrong. You are misinterpreting the conclusion.
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