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Tommy decided to appeal.
I hope the arbitrator looks at everything and the Patriots response the past few days and decides to makes it 8 games.
Been a lot of chatter that deflated footballs don't have a big effect on performance. Tom and Peyton lobbied hard in 2006 for QBs to select their own footballs for games. They got their wish.
Tom's stats. No difference after 2006 visible here.
Welcome to the rest of your life Thomas Edward Patrick Brady Jr.!
Roger trying to show he's got the biggest dick.
@mikefreemanNFL: Once again, NFL source tells me Roger Goodell will hear Tom Brady's appeal. This is really huge and unexpected development in case.
How discipline for child beating, wife beating, girlfriend beating, cheating, drunk driving, steroid using, detrimental conduct disobeying, bounty instigating, repeat helmet to helmet violating punishment is doled out isn't easy. Trying to maintain precidence is a pipe dream. Every violation seems worse than last weeks. Things can't get worse doesn't apply in the NFL 2015. Especially for a small brain like Goodell.
The NFL is full of world class **** ups with varying degrees of motive for making bad decisions. Sometimes repeatedly. It's been 27 days since the last NFL player arrest. That ain't bad as things in the NFL go.
I truly dislike Goodell. He needed Kraft's backing after he mangled the Ray Rice debacle. Paul Tagliabue threw him a lifeline on Bountygate. He has a ****ing time bomb on his hands in Seattle with Frank Clark as that situation goes way under the radar. I don't think Goodell does any of what he's done with New England cheating (again) without a long list of owners telling him they are done with Kraft's bull****. Ray McDonald. Johhny Hangover. Greg Hardy. There's low hanging **** everywhere.
The NFL needs a better commissioner to be sure but between the insanity of players with no hesitation to break rules and owners willing to pay those players millions. NFL Commissioner is truly a no win **** job. That's gotta' be why the pay is good.
Originally Posted by PackerRuss:
I know we live in a litigious society, but is anyone getting sick of all of this lawyering up in the NFL America. It really has taken alot of enjoyment out of the game life... its ridiculous.
The league seems to be representative of society?
I'm sick of it either way.
A few years back, when it was 'revealed' that the NFL was a $9B+ per year "business", the cockroaches came from the woodwork looking for any slice of that pie.
Most of the litigation could have been avoided, sadly. But, of course, the lawyers quickly figured out they would get the biggest slice, and it was doomed. Now, it's just a cost of doing business to the league. I wonder if the $1M fine assessed to the Pats will even cover the cost of Ted Well's investigation.
Not even close. Wells admitted it's in the millions.
Good points Timmy. And the 1M, wont come close to covering the cost of Wells' investigation.
This is a good breakdown by Lester Munson.
http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/st...al-filed-deflategate
Did Patriot's response to Wells report violate league rules???
http://profootballtalk.nbcspor...iolate-league-rules/
Why is it even a question anymore??? Violtaing rules is what they do.
The NFLPA has now demanded that Goodell testify in the Brady appeal.
The Brady appeal is being overseen by Goodell.
Goodell will testify to himself.
This has become the best damn reality TV show in the history of reality TV shows. How these clowns appear to the public is apparently no longer any kind of a concern.
I think it's finally time for the fans to create a fan union and this juggernaut will dwarf the NFL and the player's union in members and power. It's time we have a seat at the table. It's time we stop this BS. It's time we stop being manipulated and start doing a little manipulation of our own. We are fan. Hear us whine!
We'll have a unicorn as our mascot.
I was thinking of making a new weight loss drink called Deflatorade and selling it at all 31 NFL stadiums.
The fan union can make that happen. We can also take over talk radio and convince everyone to invest in pewter.
Say, Dr., have you given any thought for the name of this new union?
COFF-Coalition of Football Fans
Mascot =
Originally Posted by Timmy!:
Say, Dr., have you given any thought for the name of this new union?
COFF-Coalition of Football Fans
/ducking
Stealing that EKB!
@AlbertBreer: So Robert Kraft has decided not to appeal, meaning the Patriots lose their first- and fourth-round picks, and $1 million.
@AlbertBreer: In case anyone is wondering: The NFLPA plans to go forward with the appeal of Tom Brady's four-game suspension.
@adbrandt: Kraft: "Accept reluctantly what he has given us. We won't appeal." Had predicted this. Use for future political reciprocation.
@adbrandt: It's a long horse race. Kraft will need something later: a stadium issue, a rule change, support for some measure. This is a chip.
@eaglesdiehard: @adbrandt He needs his QB not suspended 4 games. You can
bet it'll get reduced now.
@srenfro21: @adbrandt a superbowl in new england...
@adbrandt: Think it's too short-term (and obvious) to connect this to a reduced Brady suspension. Kraft may rather have this as a long-term play.
@adbrandt: No coincidence Kraft's tone changed once among colleagues at owners' meeting. Lots of side bar conversations, took the temperature of group.
Lot being made over Goodell and Kraft hugging it out before the owners meeting.
How do we know Goodell isn't checking to make sure Kraft is properly inflated?
two douche-nozzles checking the others pressure, yuck.
I really like Andrew Brandt. I think he's the best analyst out there for all this front office stuff, always giving real insight into what is really happening.
And he's dead on here. Kraft knows he can't turn into this era's Al Davis. There is too much to lose monetarily from infighting so he just ended it. Kraft is a smart businessman and knew that moving on was in everyone's best interest. Only confusing part on his side was the issuance the Patriot's ridiculous rebuttal. He and his franchise became the butt of jokes throughout every other fan base. Never made any sense except to rally the Pat's fans, which they had already rallied. So again, didn't make much sense to me.
Brandt!
Need another camera angle to determine which one has the other by the balls.
Originally Posted by ChilliJon:
