Posted on 05/07/2015 6:15:29 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
While the investigation focuses on the actions of two employees, locker room attendant Jim McNally and equipment assistant John Jastremski, the report also concludes that Tom Brady "was at least generally aware of the inappropriate activities of McNally and Jastremski involving the release of air from Patriots game balls."
This is a pretty damning accusation against one of the NFL's biggest stars.
The league's evidence against Brady centers on three main points: 1) his reaction to the condition of game balls used in a Week 7 game against the New York Jets in October, 2) how he interacted with McNally and Jastremski following subsequent games, and 3) how he communicated with the two after Deflategate exploded.
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No evidence huh? See the link for text messages.....
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I saw them, and if that’s all the NFL has, they’ve got nothing from a legal standpoint.
What I’ve learned from DeflateGate:
Cheating doesn’t matter if it doesn’t affect the outcome of the game.
/sarc
A disaster for Tom Brady? No, not in the least.
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I agree. And, if nothing else, he seemed to play better when the balls were known to be inflated to higher pressure, the second half of the Colts game and the SB.
If this was a one time incident, we could give it a pass.
But there is a pattern with this team since this coach has taken over.
Brady and the coach should be suspended for at least 4 games, and their first two round draft choices for the next two years should be taken away.
They must be punished or the stretching of rules will continue.
Its not like he doesnt touch the ball much ...
F U T B
Read page 228. The NFL has no idea idea if anything really
happened.
It seems that ‘probably’ is all they could come up with after 4 months of investigation.
Yes it is. The standard of proof under the NFL's rules (which is the same as the standard of proof in nearly ever civil lawsuit) is the "preponderance of the evidence," meaning that, in order to impose disciline on someone, all they have to prove is that it was "more probable than not" that the person violated the rules.
The fact that this investigation found that it was "more probable than not" that Brady was involved does not indicate weakness in the evidence, it indicates that they conducted the investigation pursuant to the relevant burden of proof.
In civil cases, here in America, a "probability" is all you need.
Disaster. Still an nfl star. Still rich. Still married to a supermodel.
The horrors. :)
Suspend him from the second half of the first pre-season game. Maybe the second one too. And no desert either.
The Patriots have been cheating at least since the 70s.
The only team I root to lose no matter who they’re playing.
If the Chicoms had a team against them I’d root for the Chicoms also.
The problem is that Goodell set the precedent with the Saints and banished Peyton for a year, saying that ignorance is no excuse.
So, if that’s the case, then it’s only fair that Belichick face the same punishment as Peyton, to be consistent.
People have been cheating in business since business was invented and so on and so on. It does matter were the lack of ethics is it should no be condoned. The fact that ethics doesn’t matter to some is almost as egregious as the cheating. In my experience people who have no problem letting cheaters slide are generally known to cut more than a few corners themselves when no one is looking.
i agree but it 35-31 against the ravens.
I’m talking about Brady. I think that the Pats would only have been fined for this, but since Brady snubbed Obamba, now they’re going after him!
Blount had 148 yards
Brady is an integral part of the Pats success. Kraft is a strong Obama supporter. Why would Obama take steps to hurt Kraft?
Exactly. I'm really surprised at the number of people who have this viewpoint. "The Patriots won big. What difference at this point does it make?" Sigh.
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