Brady & Patriots are cheaters

[Soda]

Ya.... Mishandling domestic violence pales in comparison to punishing a guy for deflating game balls. Goodell won't survive.

 

[Soda]

This is all getting pretty ridiculous.. The Patriots' long ass rebuttal to the Wells report is being edited... As the public points out inaccuracies. Additionally, the Pats suspended the two staffers indefinitely, then said they did nothing wrong in their rebuttal.

Also, "The Deflator" was used as a nickname for a guy trying to lose weight?

 

[Surge]

Another example of why you just come clean and move on...

 

[Jack Brickman]

The Patriots are just making themselves look foolish at this point. Accept the punishment and just let this issue go. You're only calling more attention to yourselves this way.

 

[Ohio]

Also, "The Deflator" was used as a nickname for a guy trying to lose weight?

Yeah, lol, that is the most pathetic thing I've ever heard. I cannot believe they actually argued that.

Beyond desperate.

 

[randymoss1881]

The Patriots are just making themselves look foolish at this point. Accept the punishment and just let this issue go. You're only calling more attention to yourselves this way.

Ya that worked last time.
Spygate wasn't even illegal and people still bring it up.

 

[Jack Brickman]

Ya that worked last time.
Spygate wasn't even illegal and people still bring it up.

I mean, when you get caught cheating and the NFL conveniently destroys the evidence, people aren't just gonna forget about it.

 

[Soda]

"Bill Belichick was wrong because he videotaped signals after a memo was sent out to all teams saying not to do it."

"Belichick interpreted the new rule incorrectly. Belichick believed the taping was legal as long as the tape wasn't used during the same game."

Both quotes from an article penned several years after "Spygate".. http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1061258-fired-up-setting-the-record-straight-on-spygate

Belichick was also fined $500,000 and the Patriots were docked a first-round pick.. This time around, for deflating footballs, the Patriots got a $1,000,000 fine and lost two other draft picks. You get those punishments because the Patriots' "interpretation" of the NFL rules is shady and this isn't the first example.

The Patriots have showed a pattern for skirting the written rules of the NFL's policies. The NFL is changing the rule on substitutions because, again, the Patriots chose to interpret the rule different than the rest of the league. The NFL had to completely disallow filming of practices because the Patriots abused it. Now, a rule that Tom Brady personally advocated for (club handling of gameday balls) leads to another seemingly minor incident of skirting the NFL's intended rules.

It's scumbaggy. Win the game.. Don't try to find a way to hoodwink the competition.. We know that's not what the NFL is going for. It's going to nip you in the butt eventually, as we've seen.

 

[theSwayze]

Living in Mass and watching all my neighbors and co-workers twisting themselves into knots over this has been sweet sweet nectar. Every single one of them would get in a line to blow Tom Brady just so they could say they met him. The local sports radio guys are having the time of their lives playing the persecuted elites having their dynasty torn down. I can't get enough after having to listen to them rationalize away Kelly O's arm bar, "...but JR hit Chowder...".

 

[Surge]

"Roger Goodell invokes his right under CBA to preside over Tom Brady appeal, per source" - Ed Werder

HAHA, Goodell going to stick it to Brady/Patriots...

 

[Soda]

"Roger Goodell invokes his right under CBA to preside over Tom Brady appeal, per source" - Ed Werder

HAHA, Goodell going to stick it to Brady/Patriots...

There are 31 other teams that he works for who are tired of the bullshit games the Patriots have been playing for the past decade. I think he owes it to them to hear this out. After-all, Ted Wells did the investigation initially.

Edit: Arthur Blank weighs in. http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...failure-to-acknowledge-caused-hammer-to-fall/

And Falcons owner Arthur Blank seemed to suggest that was the difference in penalties between his team ($350,000, a fifth-rounder and three months of team president Rich McKay on the competition committee) and the Patriots ($1,000,000, a first- and fourth-round draft pick and four games worth of quarterback Tom Brady).

“That seems to be the general feeling, that some of the frustration whether on an individual basis or organizational basis, was the failure to acknowledge,” Blank said of the Patriots punishment, via the Associated Press.

Blank said he wasn’t familiar with all the details of the DeflateGate investigation (they keep the 10-foot-poles with which to not touch things on Aisle 37 at Home Depot), but couldn’t help but see the differences in his case and Robert Kraft’s.

“Of course you think about it,” Blank said. “The league feels a tremendous sense of responsibility, as do all the owners, in reinforcing the culture of the NFL, the shield and make sure the game remains as balanced and as pure and as true to its integrity and its ethics as can be done. When they find any organization or any individual has gotten off those tracks it’s their job to remind them of that and bring them back on the tracks and do it in a way that really reinforces what the league is about.

“I think in the case of New England they have done that.”

Blank also said that Kraft remained one of the influential owners in the league, and thinks he’ll be able to weather the storm.

“I think after things are processed, Robert will be in a good place, I think the commissioner will be in a good place, I think their relationship will be a good one and they will continue to work for the benefit of the National Football League for a long time,” Blank said.

 

[natedagg]

@The Oi
Deflategate
Spygate
Gategategategategate
Nategate

 

[Surge]

BateGate

 

[The Oi]

Jonandkateplus8gate

 

[natedagg]

Jonandkateplus8gate

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