Posted on 05/08/2015 3:06:44 PM PDT by servo1969
Tom Brady will be the highest profile player ever suspended in the 96-year history of the NFL.
Roger Goodell's decision is expected to be announced next week and it is no longer a matter of if the NFL commissioner will suspend Brady, but for how long he will suspend him.
In conversations I've had with several key sources who always have a good sense of what goes on at 345 Park Avenue, there is little doubt Goodell considers Brady's role in DeflateGate a serious violation.
The NFL is convinced, according to sources, that connecting all the dots of the evidence supplied by Wells leads to one conclusion:
Brady cheated.
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
I mean, what was the final score.... 45-7? It didn’t matter if the balls were deflated or not...the Colts got killed. My point is that the “crime” is simply not the big deal some people are making it out to be.
No more so than the accusations against Hillary are hearsay.
And, NFL is a court. The league doesn't need proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
Only he and the ball boys know that.
That being said, Brady openly said he liked the ball a bit deflated in interviews.
That’s fine, and I get that, but all you are really saying is that they don’t have any proof.
Joking about what other than deflating the balls?
We got killed by a much better Ohio St. team. It wouldn't have mattered what they did with the footballs. Blocking and tackling with football games...not under-inflated footballs. Just get on with things.
Yes, I know, there is a one lbs variation allowed. A bit deflated does not necessarily mean illegally deflated.
Maybe it does, but maybe it doesn’t.
Aaron Rodgers like his over inflated. Is Rodgers confessing to rule breaking in that preference?
Joking about deflating balls.
Is there a rule against that too?
Like I said there is a 1 lbs variation allowed.
Right. Which is why if they suspend Brady on nothing more than suspicion, the NFL becomes as corrupt as anything in Washington DC.
What exactly is liberal about expecting some integrity and consequences when it is missing?! Or, is this your favorite team and only response is throwing out insults?
Yeah. He shouldn’t be a Brady jock-sniffer.
He should be more like the standard bovine, mindless, adolescent 16 year old football fans that whine because they can’t understand that sometimes a team wins because they are disciplined and practice hard, and not because the refs had it out for their team, or the other team cheated.
Like 90% of the vitriol you read on these forums.
Brady to receive heavier penalty for wanting balls with lower pressure in a couple of football games... then hillary has for exposing (at a minimum) classified information to enemies of the United States.
He’s going to receive a stricter penalty then hillary will for deliverying 400 missiles to the enemy
Truth be told I’ve been here since before sign up dates. And originally all I did was lurk. But a nickname was required to access the forum. It was weeks after I joined before I worked up the nerve to actually post something.
Now it’s durned near impossible to shut me up. Funny how things change over the years.
Enjoy your weekend.
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GMs are not coaches. And you aren’t allowed to use cell phones in the stadium to talk to the sidelines no matter what position you are in the organization. It is in the rules.
Certainly the lowly Patriots would have been fortunate to have gone 2-14 if the balls had been blown up a pound or two more!!
What an absolutely ridiculous ‘scandal’ this whole thing is. Brady and the Pats would have been NFL champs using a rugby ball for f@ck’s sake!
Nope. They switch balls. Different ball for kicking, punting, offense of each team.
Yes, it is a big pile of stink. It started when team 1 calls team 2 and says, I think the Pats cheat, watch out. Team 2 calls the NFL before the game to complain about cheating. None of the officials notice anything wrong with the balls but!!!! Magic halftime show where some of the balls are under inflated, some aren't, and the two gauges used don't agree on one single measurement, the closest is 0.4 psi. That's a huge difference.
The same thing that happened to Shoeless Joe Jackson.
Only one ball was two pounds below the limit and only on one gauge that read .4 psi lower than the other. The balls ranged between 12.3 and 11.0 with one coming in at 10.9/ 10.5 on the low gauge with was known to read lower.
They were still low but not as egregious as two pounds each. Three of the four blasts tested of the Colts, three were below pressure on the official league gauge, but ok on the Pats gauge - ranging 12.15 to 12.3
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