Posted on 05/15/2015 12:13:03 PM PDT by Sean_Anthony
Pre-ordained findings: Endeavor to get to the bottom of this, Brady will be totally vindicated. The same can't be said for Roger Goodell and Ted Wells, who appear to have been motivated here by anything, everything except the truth
I know a lot of you are absolutely convinced that Tom Brady cheated his way to the Super Bowl by flagrantly directing the illegal deflation of footballs that were used in the AFC Championship Game against the Colts, and that the Patriots’ 45-7 win in that game was tainted by Brady’s better grip on the balls as a result of the tampering.
And much of your certainty about this owes to the supposed “findings” of the NFL’s hand-picked investigator, Ted Wells, who never demonstrated evidence that Brady did any of this but said in his report that he considers it “more probable than not” that Brady did. And based on that, the NFL suspended Brady without pay for the first four games of the upcoming season.
But there are a lot of reasons to believe that Wells decided what he was going to conclude before he ever investigated anything. And the Patriots are surely not taking this lying down, as you’d expect an organization would if it was guilty and had been caught red-handed. Far from it, the Patriots have fired back at Wells hard. There is a lot in this excerpt but it’s just the tip of the iceberg:
(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...
Lol. More like a total coverup by Goodell, who is Kraft’s butler.
Lol. More like a total coverup by Goodell, who is Kraft’s butler.
Yeah I wish we scrutinized unethical behavior in presidential candidates as closely as our sports contestants.
Wells leaving out the fact that the Colt’s footballs were also under-inflated is a game changer.
If they suspected chicanery, why did the referees not follow the rules and keep the balls under supervision?
Sure takes the cameras off all the black eyes they took last year in domestic cases.
They were protecting him until the other team complained.
I’m with the Patriots on this one. They ain’t got nothing on Brady to justify a 4-game suspension.
“They were protecting him until the other team complained”
I am referring to AFTER the Colts complained.
” As later acknowledged in the report (pgs. 44-45. Ongoing page references are to the pages of the original version of the Wells Report, not to the Executive Summary and these annotations), the Colts actually raised their concern with Senior League officials David Gardi and Mike Kensil the day before the game.”
Exactly.
I smell feminism behind this witch hunt...Giselle is way too beautiful for the violent fems...
I could be wrong though...it may be the “white privilege” retribution...
The thing I don’t understand is why they bothered with the half-assed sting operation. Why go through all the trouble to “catch them in the act” while not bothering to record the pre-game measurements of the balls, and letting them play with potentially illegal balls for half the game? It just doesn’t make sense. Why not just tweak the procedure, make it so the balls are never out of league control in-between the ref inspection and the playing field (like they did for the SB) and move on?
I think this is going to cost Goodell his job. He’s lost his most powerful backer, he has no logical argument for why the situation was handled the way it was, no good reason why a rule that stipulates a $25,000 fine is getting a 4 game suspension, million dollar fine and 2 lost draft picks. And if it goes to court it will probably be tossed. Just plain mishandled from the moment they decided to run a “sting”.
How is a million dollar fine for violating a rule that stipulates a $25,000 fine a cover up? If they wanted to cover it up all they had to do was not measure the balls at half time.
Not in a good way. This is a “so you thought we handled the Rice thing poorly, check this out”. It’s trying to ignore the pain in your foot by hitting your head.
“Why not just tweak the procedure, make it so the balls are never out of league control in-between the ref inspection and the playing field (like they did for the SB) and move on?”
Rule 2 Section 1 Paragraph 3:
http://static.nfl.com/static/content/public/image/rulebook/pdfs/5_2013_Ball.pdf
Which does not answer the question.
“Which does not answer the question.”
You asked why not ‘tweak the procedure’.
I replied back with the rule that requires ref control of the balls.
You don’t need a tweak ... you need the refs to follow the rules.
By the time this is over, Brady’s gonna own the NFL.
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