Those were punishments of the team, and Kraft has opted not to fight. He’s probably win if they did.
The suspension won’t be re-instituted. And continuing the fight is just another layer of petty from the league. That’s the biggest thing they’ve lost, not the case, the off season. When we could have been talking about the combine, we were talking about deflated balls. When we could have been talking about free agency, we were talking about deflated balls. When we could have been talking about the draft, we were talking about deflated balls. When we could have been talking about training camp, we were talking about deflated balls. And here we are 4 days from the start of the season, and we’re talking about deflated balls.
That’s the permanent loss for the league. They squandered an off-season of football news for a rule that’s essential a uniform violation.
My mistake. Brady’s sole punishment was the suspension. Nonetheless the Pats lost draft choices and a million bucks. Your claim they would have that overturned on appeal is incorrect since there is no chance they would not appeal to recover the draft choices at the minimum.
As far as the NFL and what we could be talking about, I don’t care. I like football and watch the games but it is to me not important in the real world.
One thing is for sure. Brady’s credibility is forever shot except in his fan base. No one who read the 3 reports including Bermens decision would not believe Brady was not at the very least knowledgeable re the deflated balls.
It would take a massive disconnect from reality to think two low level equipment guys deflated the balls on their own.