Btw, did you read the Judge’s decision to overturn suspension? Do you know he actually agreed Brady knew of equipment tampering but claimed simply “knowing about the tampering was not a violation of the rules because he was never notified simply having knowledge and not reporting it was punishable.
Is it possible anyone REALLY believes these two low level equipment guys took it on them selves to reduce pressure on these balls? I mean there is video evidence of one of them carrying 12 footballs into the bathroom AFTER they were checked and approved by officials.
Then thrre is the quid pro quo. Brady went from never communicating with these guys before deflategate to hundreds of texts and having these guys visit him in clubhouse AND giving them personally autographed game worn jerseys, etc.
Brady innocent? You GOTTA be kiddin’ me!!
I blame the NFL for this mess. They establish some sort of vague inflating guidelines and then put the teams in charge of the balls. How dumb is that?
The NFL decided to try and make their star QB a scapegoat instead of accepting responsibility. They should simply have stated that starting this season, their referees will accept responsibility for the balls and be held accountable for their inflation. Not that it's going to make any difference at all in the outcome of the games.
The whole thing boils down to the league not reacting according to their own rules. Rather than putting up some half-assed sting they should have just adjusted ball procedure (which they’ve done for this season) and made the whole thing not happen. And if they just HAD to catch Brady at it then they should have just fined him the $25k listed in the rule book and been done with it. The minute they decided they needed an “independent investigation” they were on a doomed path.