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Invasion Of The Joker Snatchers!
formerly normal, well adjusted and respected board members are systematically being replaced by Joe Kerr clones....now our beacon of reasonableness, PatFanKen is showing the signs of full blown Joker Goodell hysteria.....
The problem with this analysis, probably the only problem with it, is that it's almost certainly largely due to the influence of Kraft that Goodell has kept his job through the ****storm of this season. Who was the first owner out of the gate to defend him? I can't see Goodell setting out to destroy one of his strongest supporters.
Now if you want to go full tin foil hat, I like the theory that there's a under the radar fight going on in the NFL offices, with a /contingent/ that wants to drag down the Pats. That seems possible.
Do you think the fix will be in for seattle to win on sunday?
I think Goodell is incompetent to do his job and is so far in over his head as the CEO of a major media and entertainment enterprise, with all the attendant pressures and politics, as to be laughable, were it not so dangerous to the reputations and well-being of others. If he were the CEO of an honest company, an independent Board would have tossed his ass on the street a while ago.
But, I don't think he's out to "get" the Patriots in this case. Why? Because Kraft helped him get his job, saved his bacon at the time of the CBA, stood up for him early when he was bungling the Rice case and is among and carries a lot of weight with the handful of owners who really run the league (the Mara's, Rooney's, Jerry Jones, as examples).
What I DO think he will do is protect Kensil, Irsay, the Colts bench and anybody else's hands who are all over this mess to avoid embarrassing the League any further. He can't touch Irsay, but, if Kensil did what it seems he did, I think he will quietly retire or move on by the end of the year.
So, the bottom line is that I believe that the "directed verdict" will stop just short of completely exonerating the Patriots and be "inconclusive," with a new set of protocols for the inflation and handling of gameday balls.
Yes, the system is corrupt...but what system isn't when a multi-billion dollar enterprise is on the line?
Unfortunately, Rob, what you have done here is called "whistling against the wind" The truth or justice have no place here. Its a witch hunt plan and simple.I think we need to declare war with the media as much as Goodell. It is embarrassing how the media is outright lying to hang the Patriots. I'll point to two examples:
And then there is the hyperbole of the media. Greg Doyel of the Indy Star just compared this to Black Sox Scandal and saying it is on par. Mark Brunell (yes, him again) crying because he thinks Brady lied in his press conference. Then there is the Ray Lewis stupidity. Or Kurt Warner and Marshall Faulk using this to whine about their Super Bowl again. And let's not forget the media totally ignoring current and former players who say this is nothing or everyone does it for the ones who think the Pats committed the greatest crime against humanity.
- The NY Daily News claims they deflated 12 balls in 40 seconds and kept flashing a pressure gauge to show that they measured the balls before and after to say that they did show they deflated each ball to the reported levels the Pats' ball rumored to be below regulation PSI. Except if you watch the video closely, the guy doing to experiment clearly missed deflating two footballs (the ball farthest from him right next to the bathroom wall and the one closest to him the nose of the ball is pointing at him if you want to watch/rewatch the video to see it). But how did those two balls lose pressure if they are claiming all the balls deflated to the level they claim? I have yet to see anyone other than me pick that up and all the other media outlets are using this bogus experiment as the smoking gun.
- The blind test with Mark Brunell and Jerome Bettis. They both claimed that they could tell the difference by just holding the ball in the normal way but it clear the only way they could tell was by conducting CPR on the football by pressing their thumbs at the center of the ball hard to see the pressure. But Brunell said he could easily just tell how he gripped the ball when he is throwing it even though ESPN's own Sports Science segment says it would be near impossible for a QB to tell the difference by just holding the ball.
People talk about how Kraft threw down the gauntlet to Goodell to either put up or shut up. But people ignore the fact that the media has also thrown down the gauntlet too and told Goodell to either suspend Belichick and/or Brady for at least a year or all hell will come down on you.
Well regardless if this is a deliberate attack or just plain old stupidity, Anybody who allows the current proceedings happen, should be immediately fired.
Currently the NFL allow the media to actively question the validity of the highlight of its league year, and in case of a certain pats win, the validity of its worlds champion, for absolutely no apparent reason. The way this is handled is below NHL-Level of incompetence, which should make the owners think very hard, if they want to go forward in the current setting.
Unfortunately the only Owner with the drive and the standing to solve this situation seems to be Robert Kraft, who cannot to so, for obvious reasons. But surely there are other well respected people who must see the self destruct mode which the league is currently entering and take action as soon as the situation cools down a bit.
I think it was still mostly a matter of incompetence. But, since neither of us knows one way or the other, I can't say that you are wrong.If Goodell was merely trying to protect his cronies, he could have squashed this in the beginning. He chose to allow this witch-hunt and figured Kraft would just roll over. Kraft made a stand and now the NFL office has gone full ****** trying to protect itself.
I don't think we need a tin foil hat to see it that way. I like that one better than the Goody is out to get us theory. Goody isn't smart enough to pull this off. This is being done by someone with a serious bug up his ass about the Pats.