Posted on 05/08/2015 12:58:14 PM PDT by drewh
Tom Brady's offseason might extend until 2016 if the NFL decides to drop the hammer on the Patriots quarterback and at least one report is indicating that the league could slam the hammer down hard.
According to the Miami Herald, Brady could be suspended for up to one year thanks to the part he played in Deflategate.
"Everything is being studied. Everything is being considered," an NFL source told the Herald.
Brady's punishment could end up being a shorter suspension, but the source told the Herald not to dismiss the possibility of a year-long suspension.
The Patriots quarterback, along with locker attendant Jim McNally and equipment assistant John Jastremski are the three people most likely to be disciplined, according to ESPN.
The 243-page Wells report found that Brady was "at least generally aware of the inappropriate activities of McNally and Jastremski involving the release of air from Patriots game balls."
In the report, Wells also noted that Brady refused to turn over his phone and other personal information for investigative purposes.
Brady's refusal to help the investigation could end up being one of the big reasons he's hit with a potentially big suspension.
In the NFL's Policy on Integrity of the Game & Enforcement of Competitive Rules, the league notes that "Failure to cooperate in an investigation shall be considered conduct detrimental to the League and will subject the offending club and responsible individual(s) to appropriate discipline."
Brady's decision to not fully cooperate in the investigation was duly noted in the Wells report.
"Brady's refusal to provide us with his own records on relevant topics, in response to our tailored requests, limited the evidence available for our review and analysis," the report said.
Whatever Brady's punishment ends up being, it will likely be handed down sometime in the near future.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbssports.com ...
Yes, for special teams' plays...kickoffs...punts...
Colts supply their balls for offense; Pats supply their balls for offense.
...the refs handled them on every play?
No. If each team supplied a dozen balls...and say, if there's another dozen special team balls...that's 36 footballs.
There's no way refs are handling all 36 balls on "every play."
What's your point?
So the teams place the balls at the line of scrimmage themselves?
If I’m a kicker, after 45 points, I might “let” a ref hand me the ball.
Well, you're not watching very carefully, then.
Because they don't (EVERY ball)
Yes, anytime the ball scuffs the dirt in any way...it's examined...
And, occasionally, other balls might be examined for other reasons.
Otherwise, no...not "every" ball.
Why is a single player being excoriated when the entire damn game was played without complaint?
OK...I guess you didn't follow the news back then very well.
After a Colt interception late in the first half, the ball was found to be suspect and the balls were checked at halftime... Where you do you get the "entire game" crap with your "d" adjectives?
45-7 due to under-inflated balls? You are nuts.
First of all, apparently the football question only applied to the first half...because the psi stuff was found at during halftime.
So nobody is claiming the Pats piled up points on such footballs.
Consider this:
Game was played in pelting rain: If pats' Vereen drops 30 yd late first quarter pass instead of it leading to a Pat TD...it's 7-0 instead of 14-0
Up til then Colts running ball 40% of time...gaining 5 yds per run...run game vital in pelting rain...
AFTER 2nd td, Colts essentially abandoned run game...-- next 23 of 28 plays are passes...difficult to to do in pouring rain...
Can't sustain drive...
If Colts had been down only 10-7 at half...instead of 17-7 at half...Colts may not have abandoned run game after Pats took opening 2nd half drive down for a bigger lead.
May not have won game; but probably would have still been in it midway into 3rd qtr.
(And, btw, one of those 2nd-half Pat TDs was running plays set up by an interception...so you remove that score from consideration on all of this...Pats scored 3 of 5 drives in lst half & 3 of 5 drives other than that one in 2nd half)
Disclaimer: NOT a Colts fan.
If you extrapolate that philosophy, well they have rules on equipment they wear...which by extension equates to the NFL supplying all of the equipment for which they have rules.
Are you going to back off that supply comment or not?
(So the refs place all 36 footballs at the line of scrimmage?)
There could be 25-30 footballs on the sidelines that are NEVER touched by the refs in the course of a halftime...and they don't know if they are "legit" or not
I don’t think you understand what is going on here.
Expand your view.
This is an attack on the NFL proper. Do you recall the earlier attacks on the NFL?
You are buying into a stupid socialist agenda.
(I guess I understand your username...sounds like you’re pretty good at it)
I don’t think a football is part of their “equipment”.
Do better.
Please “Extrapolate”......
We have a field 100yds.
We have a measuring stick at 10yds.
We have goal lines at each end.
We have sidelines on each side.
We have goal posts 10 yards beyond “goal” lines.
We have bitches that cannot lose.
It’s all the same.
Who attacked the NFL?
Oh, another digression?
If you click on the link provided at post #99, the USAToday columnist says:
"If Cleveland Browns general manager Ray Farmer was banned for four games for text messaging his coaching staff during a game, if Atlanta Falcons President Rich McKay was temporarily kicked off the competition committee he chairs for noise pollution at the Georgia Dome, if coach Sean Payton and GM Mickey Loomis were suspended a few years ago amid the New Orleans Saints bounty scandal, then Brady needs to take a seat, too, in the name of integrity...But a violation is just that. And this one, while it doesn't rise to the level of offering a bounty to inspire injuring an opponent, strikes me as worse than text messaging Kyle Shanahan or piping in extra noise when the Falcons defense is gearing up for third-and-long.
(So it's not like Brady's the only one to be "singled out")
USA TODAY?
I don’t think so.
Might as well link me to michael moore’s site.
Based on that ridiculous post I would have to imagine that the Patriots QB was in the bathroom deflating the footballs.
Do you stand by this absurd assumption?
Thanks for making fun of my FR name BTW.
I am sure Colorado is happy as sunshine to have a fruit from California in their midst.
Our soldiers took it to the VietCong on their turf in the 60s; & to the Communist North Koreans in similar situations in the 50s.
Now, re: those we see as "the opposition" ... not only won't we take them on -- on their turf -- but some of us won't even click a link on a website...
Too many potential cooties for you, eh?
(Glad you're too old to sign up for military duty)
Making fun of?
No, actually you live up to it.
(If you don't like it, change it)
If you have something to say, say it.
As far as my service, you are not qualified or classified.
Understand that your argument had no merit and you fell into a socialist wormhole.
It isn’t about a QB in the NFL. It will take more years of maturity for you to understand.
Good Evening.
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