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.
Brady was instrumental in getting responsibility for ball control returned to the clubs where before it was in fact handled by the officials.
Keep in mind the punishment was actually for how the actions of the Pats hurt the integrity of the game. No one who has actually read the Wells report, the appeal denial report and Bermen’s decision to overturn the suspension(only) can doubt Brady was directing those two hapless equipment guys.
“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?”
Not dumb at all if you want to give every edge possible to increase scoring so as to attract the highest number of casual fans who think scoring = excitement.
“The NFL decided to try and make their star QB a scapegoat instead of accepting responsibility.”
Will the TV ratings for this season be higher or lower due to this story being in the media in the off season?
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