Brady suspended four games, Patriots hit hard for deflate-gate

tweeterhawk

tweeterhawk

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Tom Brady, Patriots get hammered by NFL in deflate-gate punishment

I'm hardly a fan of Tom Brady, the Patriots or any other NFL team other than the ones who draft recent Hawkeye players. But this is total crap. Complete bullsheet based on a weak, unsubstantiated report by a third party that could provide no firm evidence of tampering.

The blame for under-inflated balls in the championship game falls squarely on two parties: the officiating crew and the NFL. It is the duty of the officials to inspect each game ball and to check the inflation, then take whatever steps are necessary to ensure the integrity of the balls up to and including game time. They failed in this instance.

Additionally, the league supposedly was tipped weeks ahead of time to possible problems with the balls at Gillette Stadium. In a critical championship game, it would seem incumbent for the league to take every step available to check the balls and to make sure custody was maintained once they had been inspected. It would have been proper for one of their investigators to be on site monitoring every movement of the batch of balls.

The league is conveniently trying to shift blame for this embarrassing saga onto one of its most successful teams and quarterbacks, when in fact there are three fingers of blame pointing back it.

What a crock.
 
Nothing happens to Brady's balls without him feeling it.

He cheated. Simple. The blame solely rests on the cheater.
 
theboat said:
Nothing happens to Brady's balls without him feeling it.

He cheated. Simple. The blame solely rests on the cheater.
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It is the rare athlete or team that doesn't try to gain on advantage in a completion, fairly or otherwise. It is up to the competition authority (in this case, the NFL) and the individuals hired to arbitrate the competition to ensure it is played fairly. Brady's "cheating" should have been caught and stopped by those in charge.
 
LawVHawk said:
It is the rare athlete or team that doesn't try to gain on advantage in a completion, fairly or otherwise. It is up to the competition authority (in this case, the NFL) and the individuals hired to arbitrate the competition to ensure it is played fairly. Brady's "cheating" should have been caught and stopped by those in charge.
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Do you realize how stupid this sounds?
 
Ray Rice initially suspended 2 games.....Brady 4 games. So in Goodell's mind breaking the rules outside of football is not as bad as breaking a technical rule within the NFL....Seems F'd up to me. Goodell should have been canned with his inept handling of the Ray Rice incident anyway. Guy didn't even want to know what the *uck happened in that elevator and that was readily available for him to find out, yet he goes on a witch hunt over deflating a football.

Domestic violence = turn a blind eye
deflate a football = witch hunt, we will track you down anywhere you go on the planet to serve you justice.

One of the many reasons why I watch less and less pro football every year.
 
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tweeterhawk said:
Tom Brady, Patriots get hammered by NFL in deflate-gate punishment

I'm hardly a fan of Tom Brady, the Patriots or any other NFL team other than the ones who draft recent Hawkeye players. But this is total crap. Complete bullsheet based on a weak, unsubstantiated report by a third party that could provide no firm evidence of tampering.

The blame for under-inflated balls in the championship game falls squarely on two parties: the officiating crew and the NFL. It is the duty of the officials to inspect each game ball and to check the inflation, then take whatever steps are necessary to ensure the integrity of the balls up to and including game time. They failed in this instance.

Additionally, the league supposedly was tipped weeks ahead of time to possible problems with the balls at Gillette Stadium. In a critical championship game, it would seem incumbent for the league to take every step available to check the balls and to make sure custody was maintained once they had been inspected. It would have been proper for one of their investigators to be on site monitoring every movement of the batch of balls.

The league is conveniently trying to shift blame for this embarrassing saga onto one of its most successful teams and quarterbacks, when in fact there are three fingers of blame pointing back it.

What a crock.
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You're making the mistake of thinking that Brady was suspended solely on the deflated footballs. Thats not the case here at all. Brady refused to cooperate with the investigation. Specifically would not allow the league to see his emails/texts. That is the reason this suspension is 4 games. Had he come clean from the jump, pleaded ignorance he walks away with a lot less, maybe no suspension at all.
 
There are lots of angles to this and yet most of the talking heads only focus on one or two of them. Of course the NFLs procedures being terrible is what even allowed this to be possible. The other is those equipment guys have a really cool job with the greatest perks ever. They know that. So do you think they are going to take it upon themselves to sneak in the bathroom with them and deflate them on their own without their boss and or Brady himself instructing them to? That's where the "probable" and "most likely" quotes come into play. They don't have a smoking gun as far as nobody is admitting to anything/ratting on anyone and there's no camera/audio. So of course it's pretty much circumstantial. Hernandez just got convicted of murder in a court of law on no more then circumstantial evidence too...js.
The Pats are their own worst enemy in that they thought they could circle the wagons and if everyone kept their mouths shut that they'd get away with it. Yet they do have some texts from the equipment guys phones (why do equipment guys even have company issued phones another perk of the gig) and catch them in lies. The equipment guy lied and has changed his story a couple times too about the bathroom deal. If the Brady would have played it cool and admitted to it and tried to play it off as he didn't think it even was cheating he'd have got a slap on the wrist and on with life we go. Yet he got some bad advice and the team is suffering too. Losing those draft picks is rough... He may be lucky he's only getting 4 games in the sense that it's the lying defiant uncooperative stance he and the team took... That never goes over well with the bosses...

Brady should thank his lucky stars. He'll still keep his money, rings, (wife) get to play again go to the HOF all those things. Yet those equipment guys are losing their dream job on most likely their favorite team... I'd like to think those 2 guys are like us. If Chuck Long would have asked me to do that for him back in the day I wouldn't have even hesitated... Yet they are getting the worst end of the stick by far and no talking heads on tv have brought that up...
 
Some of the very same people who say Brady and the Pats should be punished because they, for instance, covered up Deflate-Gate also say Hillary isn't guilty because there's no smoking gun... yet they say there is a smoking gun to convict the police in Baltimore.. or New York..

Politics have definitely besieged the NFL.
 
Hope the league goes after Aaron Rodgers next, he's admitted to over inflating balls. I don't think it's any coincidence that him and Brady have been two of the best QB's in the league, I bet when people look back at them they will remember them like McGuire and Sosa. Guys who had to cheat to achieve their success.
 
HawkeyeMike23 said:
Hope the league goes after Aaron Rodgers next, he's admitted to over inflating balls. I don't think it's any coincidence that him and Brady have been two of the best QB's in the league, I bet when people look back at them they will remember them like McGuire and Sosa. Guys who had to cheat to achieve their success.
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I don't like either team but I think they will be remembered for winning Super Bowls and having hot girlfriends/wives.
 
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