For a report that has to use the word ‘probable’? You need incontrovertible evidence to render a judgment like that. Why didn’t the league investigate the 4 INDY footballs that were below spec? Why does the report allege a man could deflate 12 balls in 100 seconds but a room full of refs could only check 4 Indy balls in 12 minutes? Why was Wells hired, as a so called independent investigator, when he has strong connections to the NFL? Prediction: Brady appeals and he is suspended for one game because he did not completely cooperate with the league, not because he cheated.
It's a professional sports league, not a court of law! Brady's conduct was deemed to be detrimental to the NFL, in the eyes of those who are vested with the power to make such determinations. That's that.
I'm sure Brady's total lack of cooperation with the investigation had something to do with the severity of the penalty as well.
The Patriots have been cheating since at least the "snow plow" incident. Then there was the stealing of signals a few years back, and now this. Who knows what else they've gotten away with?
But, hey, at least they're the Super Bowl champions. That's something. "There's cheaters and there's losers" and "win at any cost" are perfectly valid strategies, as long as you don't mind tarnishing your legacy a bit. The NFL champion Patriots are OK with that, and the chips fell were they fell.
I'm so glad that the only NFL team with a perfect season is the Miami Dolphins, and I think it was poetic justice that it's the Patriots that went 18-0 and then lost the Super Bowl.
Don Shula was correct to dub the Patriots head coach "Belli-cheat" the other day. Rules are rules, and the Patriots franchise has shown that they don't think the rules apply to them...
They were being polite. What they meant to say was that though we have no physical evidence, any idiot knows that the ballboys wouldn't adjust the ball pressure without being told to do so by the star quarterback.
Tom Brady* is not only a cheater, he is a coward as well, selling the lowly ballboys up the river like that.
Tom Brady and his wife are international celebrities. Tom was right in not turning over his cell phone. His texts would have been on Page 6 and the Drudge Report.
Roger gave a thug a two game suspension for knocking a woman cold.
This is way over the top.
Roger Goodell is now a marked man.