Patriots Won't Appeal Deflategate Decision

Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | May 15, 2015 | Rush Limbaugh

[Kaslin]

RUSH: Oh, we got a flash: "Patriots Will Not Appeal Deflategate Decision." You know, there have been all kinds of secret meetings going on over the past 24 hours between Goodell and Robert Kraft, between the NFL and the Patriots. The sports media was starting to get breathing heavy, thinking that some sort of compromise had been reached. Because in the Drive-By Media, their template/their narrative is that Goodell is a jerk, that Goodell does nothing but screw up every time he hands out this penalties.

And that Goodell therefore knows he's a jerk, and Goodell knows he screwed up here, and Goodell is looking for a way out, and that's why he went to the Patriots under cover of darkness, and they're trying to get out of this thing without an appeal and without a lawsuit. The press is trying to tell us that means Goodell knows he's made a big mistake here and he's offering a way out, and they don't know what it is. Maybe eliminate the fine of $1 million or maybe not take the two draft choices.

I've thought all along this suspension's gonna be two games. You remember me saying that. So we'll see what happen. With the Patriots now saying they're not gonna appeal, they have to have been given something, would you not conclude? (interruption)
Well, it could be the other way. It could well be that in a private meeting Goodell said, "Look, you want to go through with this? Tom, that means you gotta produce your phone. I don't know what's on it, but you gotta produce it.

"Are you sure you guys want to go through with this?" Because I'm telling you: There's much more going on here than just Deflategate. Spygate, who knows? I mean, it could be that way. It could be that Goodell took his good buddy Kraft and said, "Bob, look, man. This is gonna get worse than it is now if we go. You gotta pull back, man. You just gotta let this happen and back off." That's one way.

The other way -- the preferred storyline from Drive-By Media -- is that Goodell stepped in it, knows he stepped in it, wants a way out, and has gone to his buddy Kraft to let him off the hook with most of the penalties removed. That's the Drive-By Media. That's what they're all predicting will happen here. So it's one of two things, and I have just given you the two possible scenarios.

[2CAVTrooper]

What do you mean “repeat offenders at cheating”?

That azzhat Rodger Goodall is a butthurt NY jets hack who’s been grinding an axe because Belichick left the jets the day after being named their head coach.

Half the colts’ balls were under inflated. As far as “spygate” goes, the Patriots were doing something that is COMMON PRACTICE throughout the NFL. All of the teams bend or skirt the rules to gain any advantage they can.

The top three proven cheaters in the NFL are:

1.) Broncos
2.) Steelers
3.) Jets

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[RipSawyer]

“There are always more serious things going on than football.”

I totally agree but I know some who would argue strongly against that statement and at least one who seems to think that football is the most important thing going on on the planet.

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