Tom Brady's 4-game suspension in Deflategate upheld by Goodell

ESPN ^ | 7/28/2015 | Mike Reiss

[FewsOrange]

Patriots quarterback Tom Brady's four-game suspension for his role in using underinflated footballs during the AFC Championship Game was upheld by commissioner Roger Goodell on Tuesday.

In making the announcement, Goodell cited new evidence that Brady willfully obstructed the investigation by destroying his phone on or about June 23, the day of the appeals hearing between Brady and investigators.

Based on Ted Wells' report and the evidence presented at that hearing, Goodell concluded in his decision that Brady was aware of, and took steps to support, the actions of other team employees to deflate game footballs below the levels called for by NFL rules. ...

[Moonman62]

The “experts” on ESPN keep saying he should admitted guilt when it first happened.

...

I think it’s possible there was pressure put on the NFL to go after a white guy. Seeing ESPN pile on makes me think I could be right.

[fortheDeclaration]

And what does that have to do with the fact that they were suspended in the first place and the Patriots said nothing and did nothing.

If nothing was done to the footballs, shouldn't they be still working for the Patriots?

I have no doubt Kraft is paying them- to keep quiet!

[discostu]

No the Pats did say they thought it was an overreach. Which is pretty much all there was to do outside of quietly ignore the league’s ruling and keep them on some part of Kraft’s payroll. Not worth getting into a pissing contest with the league over some of the team’s lowest paid employees, not when there’s so many paths around it.

[stormer]

Nope. Even assuming that one set of balls was left in a room heated to 80 and the other left outside in 40 degree weather, the temperature variance between indoors and out cannot explain the pressure differential.

[fortheDeclaration]

Yes, just throw some innocent workers under the bus.

Is that what you are trying to tell us now?

[discostu]

If somebody threw them under the bus it was the league. Kraft just realized there were better ways of extracting them than getting into it with the league.