Goodell won't do the smart thing and he will go after Brady big time. The crowd wants Brady's blood and Goodell is too weak to not give it to them. When it gets overturned, he can say he tried. The biggest risk to Goodell is if Brady does not win arbitration and Brady seeks legal action and starts discovery.
Pontious Pilate Goodell is in a bad situation. The non believers are screaming for blood and Goodell knows that the case is shaky at best. If the "correct" determination on the PSI readings are left to someone's memory...look out. Don Yee and the NFLPA can come up with 50 reports saying the balls PSI were a correct indicator of the game conditions. If that's the case, the deal could be sealed as" a ...ya....,well...ok, I guess" and this madness stops.
When the argument that the Colts footballs, even though the Officials who handle footballs as their job, only "had time" to review just a few after they sat and got warmer for 12 minutes while our Superman of deflation could do 12 balls in 90 seconds whole urinating, this is a career accident waiting to happen for someone who says this is the smoking gun.
As a matter of fact, $5 million for Wells? His rep as any kind of third party "neutral" investigator is shot dead as a clean report this was not. I could have done the same hatchet job for $500. Truth be known, the other NFL Owners (you know, .......the ones that won't spend money for goal line cameras. Would not that help with the integrity of the game?) must be PISSED for this waste of paper. For Mr. Goodell trying to prove that he has control over the ship and Rice decisions are a thing of the past, my thoughts are he is taking on the wrong guy.
Brady does not have a choice if he is suspended. He must be aggressive against this stupid set up.
My biggest outrage in this is that the NFL agreed to a sting and Wells is lying. Now what if Yee goes after him and he has to admit that? The NFLPA and Yee have caught Wells in a major league vise. Oh how the tables will turn. Will the NFL want to see that? Their records, phone messages, texts and conferences will be subpoenaed. The NFL did not need this whether it was Brady, Rodgers or Teddy Bridgewater they tried to sting. What were they thinking?
These are my opinions and they could be all wrong.
DW Toys