The issue is Tom’s lack of cooperation via his relevant texts and the Pats’ lack of cooperation via not making their equipment guy available.
It is also, IMO, reasonable to draw inferences that lack of cooperation.
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Would you turn over your private communications to your employer? Would you want to be punished based on inferences and exercising your rights? Am I really on a Conservative forum?
Come on, they weren’t asking him to hand over his phone, only the relevant texts.
And this wasn’t a court of law, it was an investigation according to league rules that Brady agreed to live with in order to be in the league.
We’re talking about voluntarily entered into contracts.