Ted Wells' Train Wreck Press conference :D

[Fencer]

Matt Perrault @sportstalkmatt
We taped the call ... There is someone feeding lines to Wells. Audio coming in a sec ... This thing keeps getting better

Mark Daniels @MarkDanielsPJ
Anyone else on this call hear someone tell Wells to say "lack of cooperation?" Is he getting coached right now?

Doug Kyed @DougKyedNESN
Yes. I heard that.

Mainly irrelevant story -- in 1986, when I was young and single, I attended a computer trade show. A very attractive woman I'd never met before spoke to me in a familiar way, as if we knew each other. One thing led to another, and she quickly became my girlfriend.

It turned out that she'd felt she already knew me, because she'd sat in silently on various conference calls where I was interviewing more senior people in her firm, and at least potentially fed them some of their answers.

 

[Kdo5]

100% proof that this is all ******** and it was NOT an independent investigation.

Wells suggesting that there is no way the NFL would want to bring down Ton Brady. That it's absurd and doesn't make sense.

Oh right. So they didn't want to let Brady twist in the wind on the eve of the Super Bowl. They didn't want his face plastered all over national media as being a cheater. The gleeful owners and executives, and players in the league who are gloating did not want to see Brady tarnished.

Lies lies lies. This son of a ***** makes my blood boil.

 

[reflexblue]

Mark Daniels @MarkDanielsPJ
Wells: "Walt Anderson just thought it was a normal complaint. You get these types of things all the time. Nobody paid much attention to it."



HOLY COW.

sure ted you get these complaints all the time, then why set up a sting? i believe theres a timeline showing that a lot of people were called and told to watch out for this. If this 'happens all the time, how come this time was different? hmm

 

[Sticky Caulk]

Obviously the NFL wanted to get a couple more soundbites out there and it worked. They are playing the media. Brady and New England didn't cooperate, the gauge didn't matter and the overly emotional defense of his independence.

Yee will play the media a bit too, but, unlike the NFL, Yee has a whole lot more he can work with. He is in the drivers seat now, so the NFL can try to delay the inevitable with a bunch of piss stops, but Yee is deciding the destination no matter what.

 

[karguy85]

I am positive Wells was also billing the NFL for that press conference.

 

[Sfpat]

More thoughts on this.

Wells is claiming that his investigation was independent and not influenced by the league, but he says he wrote his findings as 'more probable than not" because that is the league's standard.
If you are independent then you are doing an investigation to find facts, not to prove something to a level the person who hired you provides. By definition that is not independent.

I believe he was supposed to be the investigator, not the prosecutor and judge. He seems to have misplaced his role

 

[Fencer]

No wonder the league moderator was trying to "hustle" it along via Shalize M.

Question. Wells is a lawyer. He is surround by lawyers. Why did they need a "league" moderator?

PR people always feel they're necessary to manage the procedural aspects of phone calls.

 

[Fencer]

I am shocked that Wells did this conference call.

He hurt himself and the league immeasurably by what he said today. Bad move. I'm frankly surprised.

The cheering you hear is coming from Foxboro today.

Lots of people are responding favorably to it. Perhaps they're forgetting that he's a professional litigator, with all the stage-acting ability that implies.

 

[ViperGTS]

PR people always feel they're necessary to manage the procedural aspects of phone calls.

True. But you are a lawyer. It signifies something if they are tying to rush to close the session. That's all.

 

[shmessy]

Holy moly he was upset/unstrung!


Mark Daniels @MarkDanielsPJ
Here's the audio of Ted Wells getting told to say "a lack of cooperation" http://chirb.it/sdtqHB

 

[Mr. Objective]

Tom E. Curran ‏@tomecurran 1m1 minute ago
Wells associate Loren Reisner (sp)?) "Differences in pressure drops found to be signifcant regardless of which gauge used."

What BS. The Exponent Report itself says that the difference in pressure drops between the Patriots' and Colts' footballs cannot be deemed to be significant because the Colts' footballs had more time to warm up before they were tested at half-time. The Wells firm lawyers can't even understand the bogus report they paid for.

 

[Rob0729]

I think where Wells may have messed up is he said that he only stated "more probable than not" that Brady was guilty because that was the League standard, but he really thinks Brady is guilty.

The League has that standard to protect themselves against lawsuits. That is why they didn't want Wells to say he is guilty in that report. Now that Wells said that he only used that phrase because that was what the League wanted, it may give Brady and his camp more ammo.

 

[Ross12]

Mark Daniels @MarkDanielsPJ
Here's the audio of Ted Wells getting told to say "a lack of cooperation" http://chirb.it/sdtqHB

 

[dales804]

I am positive Wells was also billing the NFL for that press conference.

I'd say it's more probable than not.

 

[Ross12]

I think where Wells may have messed up is he said that he only stated "more probable than not" that Brady was guilty because that was the League standard, but he really thinks Brady is guilty.

The League has that standard to protect themselves against lawsuits. That is why they didn't want Wells to say he is guilty in that report. Now that Wells said that he only used that phrase because that was what the League wanted, it may give Brady and his camp more ammo.

"I am fully independent, I didn't take any direction from the NFL to give them the report they wanted."
Why did you use "more probable than not"?
"Because it was what the NFL wanted. Oh sh*t!"

 

[SVN]

maybe we are seeing through our pats fans eyes..people elsewhere e.g reddit think wells nailed in the presser and no way even an independent arbitrator reduces the suspension.

 

[Mack Herron]

I think where Wells may have messed up is he said that he only stated "more probable than not" that Brady was guilty because that was the League standard, but he really thinks Brady is guilty.

The League has that standard to protect themselves against lawsuits. That is why they didn't want Wells to say he is guilty in that report. Now that Wells said that he only used that phrase because that was what the League wanted, it may give Brady and his camp more ammo.

Don't be silly. He said himself his conclusions were independent and not influenced by the NFL.

 

[Nonlegit]

The NFL is stuck with the Wells report as written and cannot deviate from it, change it or introduce anything new. They live or die by this steaming pile of crap. Wells is taking heat because everyone who looks at it laughs. He set the NFL up to not only fail in court but to be humiliated.

Now this I disagree with. Read the comments on any of these national articles (I CANNOT BELIEVE I AM ACTUALLY SUGGESTING THIS) and people legitimately think in their actual hearts and souls that brady and belichick are cheaters.

They didnt read the report, they barely even listened to the talking heads. They just were spoonfed guilty and thats that. My own brother who is smart and an independent thinker has been texting me that he is so surprised Brady was into all that etc etc... literally everyone in my ENTIRE workplace from the uneducated up to all the physicians think that they are guilty (I live away from the NE)...

Thats is the saddest part of this. unless there is an internal whistleblower from the NFL, a mind-blowing leak, or the NFL gets so thoroughly embarrassed by a neutral arbitrator such as a court so as to retract the Wells report or something - Brady is forever guilty in most peoples eyes.

 

[Fencer]

I am going to have a conference call so that I can prove to everyone that my investigation was independent and not influence by anyone. Is it wrong if I have other people in the room to tell me what to say?

Priceless.
The only thing better was if someone can prove it was Jeff Pash.

If those coaching him were his employees, it doesn't seem like a big deal to me.

If they were NFL employees, however ... wowza.

 

[Kdo5]

maybe we are seeing through our pats fans eyes..people elsewhere e.g reddit think wells nailed in the presser and no way even an independent arbitrator reduces the suspension.

Yeah most will praise his tone and find it believable and convincing...somehow.

Just watch. I'm gazing at headlines on the top of our page. "Wells hammers back at Yee and critics". They'll think he did a great job.