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Why is this silly? There were teams/owners that wanted BB suspended for the year and TB12 suspended 8 games over Deflategate. The major of the league owners do not care for NE. I really doubt they would oust Goodell for taking a hard line . . . which is what they told him to do.
I don't think they'll oust Goodell. It was the bold text I find silly and it smacks of typical NE fan arrogance. The Patriots are just not as important as you think.
I am not saying the Patriots are more important than 31 other teams. But there are 31 other owners that seem to have the Patriots messing with their heads, many of which that want the book thrown at them.
Love that, and yet you've still got the New bloody York Times with this:
And to that I would say, based on what? You're basing your conclusions on your preconceptions. All you have for evidence is Wells. All you have is the prosecutions case. And it's worse than that, because not only is it solely the prosecutions case as it would be in court, but any teeny weeny case the defense got to make was filtered back through the prosecution!
Sure.
I did not realize Manning cheated, link?Sure.
I respect him like I do Barry Bonds in baseball. Both amazing, HOF talents who had absolutely no need to cheat to get ahead, but chose to anyway. If those guys chose to get it done as best as possible on the field of play, no matter what methodology they had to employ, then that's got to be a choice they can live with at the expense of their legacy. I wouldn't say either stance is absolutely "right" or "wrong."
It's pretty clear that ESPN legal people are paid to be biased against Brady. Pretty sweet deal for someone like Lester Munson, who was once suspended from practicing law.
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I'm guessing he didn't get a "like" from Gisele on this. Shoot, Kessler probably hit the "Post" button...
I encourage you to read more about the history of the NFL. Start with the team that you follow.
I guess blindness works both ways. It is hard to be comfortable with a process that presupposes guilt.
More than enough for what? Looks some idiot having a hard on for Brady and over inflating the balls to get under his skin.
Has it ever been clearly laid out just what McNally's responsibilities were with the ball prep?
There are three sets of texts in there. The first one had the word deflator in it and a reference to going to espn. That one is the only meaningful one. The second is immediately after the overinflation debacle against the Jets when the refs set the balls to 16 and Brady went off. That is not even remotely close to evidence of a conspiracy to deflate footballs. It's literally only two people talking about getting yelled at and not setting them to 16.
Without context? It's impossible. It certainly doesn't say that he's in charge if deflating footballs below 12.5. It seems to imply he knows something that would be bad if espn found out, but it doesn't say what. It could be any kind of dirt - maybe Brady threw a nostalgia #### into Bridget Moynihan. The leap you have to make to believe it had anything to do with football deflation is that he used the word "deflator" in a text nearby, but again, his job involves inflating and deflating footballs. A guy named smith probably has a great great great grand parent who was a blacksmith, and a guy named mason probably has a relative who worked with stone. Adam Sandler played a character whose nickname was the waterboy. It's not crazy to think that a guy who manages ball temperature would be nicknamed the inflator, and while i agree that the explanation sounded implausible at first, if it was a fat guy losing weight, maybe his nickname changed to the deflator. On a mountain of circumstantial evidence, this would have been one more big piece, but out of context it takes more spin to believe that this has anything to do with a long standing conspiracy to deflate footballs below 12.5 psi than something innocuous.
You are not the first to make the OJ comparison. I think you're only talking about the perception, but some aren't.
The text with mention of deflation took place before the 2014 season, after that during the season balls were found to have been over inflated. If balls were being illegally tampered with post-inspection this wouldn't have been the case.During this time there are phone records that clearly indicate what Brady and Jastremski knew about the rules regarding inflation and explicit instructions to inflate balls to 12.5 and to present a copy of the rule to any official as to avoid the officials ####### with balls again. They had no reason to assume in September or October w/e that their private texts would be made public, no way to misconstrued that.
Maybe I should have compared this with someone like Gaylord Perry who is a HOF pitcher who used a spitball.
I can't imagine this perception holding among those with a shred of critical thought.
The masses don't put as much time into thinking about this. They heard (right or wrong) that there was cheating. So I do believe that the masses think that Brady or the Pats cheated.
The question was have you cheated. And he had no information because the league wouldn't tell them even what they thought he had done let alone the specifics.
