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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Didn't Wells himself said Brady was very cooperative UPTO the time when he was asked for his cell phone messages.And here we go again what does "reasonably cooperate" mean? Neither side is going to agree.
There is another potential problem if true.
Pats and their lawyers obviously know best but wish they had fought this out in an appeal and court in close doors.They cant fight the media and public which is never going to buy them, Now they make goodell even more mad and he aint signing up for an independent arbitrator.
David Post said:One point about Deflategate that has, I think, escaped notice. Ted Wells, the NFL investigator, says, at the very beginning of the Report (in footnote 1), that
Under the NFL Policy, the “standard of proof required to find that a violation of the competitive rules has occurred” is a “Preponderance of the Evidence,” meaning that “as a whole, the fact sought to be proved is more probable than not.”
Actually, that’s not correct. It ignores the “of the evidence” part. The preponderance standard involves weighing the evidence, to see which side tips the balance. Many things can be “more probable than not” that do not satisfy the preponderance of the evidence standard.
David Post said:The NFL, I have come to believe, exists in large part so that, should we fall into despair over our system of public justice (which I find myself doing from time to time), we are reminded that it could be worse.
HOW DID HE NOT COOPERATE?!? They asked him to turn over any relevant texts or emails, and he said there weren't any. How is this stonewalling or not cooperating? Arrggghhh!!ProFootballTalkVerified account@ProFootballTalk
Brady had duty to "reasonably cooperate" with investigation, which will make it harder to prevail on appeal http://wp.me/p14QSB-9LWL
People were already talking about Brady's suspension being overturned. Goodell already knew what was coming. If you don't want to see what I'm seeing, that's up to you.
And I think you would be 100% correct about that part about general stupidity. I imagine that the Patriots wanted to give their fans their side of the story.I would never give the public credit. I think a large number of Americans are too lazy, stupid, or willfully ignorant to look past the text. Just that if it was intended for the public I don't see the success in it.
Great report, I like it, would have been better w/o addressing May's deflator text.
Florio should provide his phone texts relevent to child molestation. "But I don't have any." "Aha! Guilty!"Florio's argument is stupid. Wells is claiming that he said Brady could give him the stuff he was looking for and keep his phone. Yet if Brady says he doesn't have it they consider that being uncooperative.
wells will say these comments are made by teams all the time and are never taken seriously like he said about the colts complaint.Is this in the Wells report or is this in the pats report today?
If the Pats can prove they informed wells of this and he did NOTHING about it then how is it not a biased with hunt?
That's damning imo
(4) Mr. Brady’s agent explained to the investigators why, from the perspective of precedent for other players and the Players’ Union, there were good reasons not to turn over his private phone or any phone records or texts. The investigators already had all of Mr. Jastremski’s texts with Mr. Brady, since Mr. Jastremski’s phone had been given to the League within about 48 hours of notice of the investigation. They also had Mr. McNally’s phone records for a period prior to and including the AFC Championship Game. Those records show no texts with Mr. Brady, even in connection with asking for or receiving the three autographs. The absence of any texting between Mr. Brady and Mr. McNally was further confirmed by the uncontradicted testimony by each of them that they had never spoken to each other on the phone, had never texted each other, and had never even had a substantive in-person conversation with each other. The investigators found no witness who contradicted any of these statements even though they had access to countless people who were in the Patriots locker room area or the player’s bench area where, on game day, Mr. Brady and Mr. McNally were in the same vicinity. The absence of a single witness who observed some substantive conversation, and the absence of texts during what the investigators felt was a critical time, corroborated their statements that they never had any such communications. If any information about texts on Mr. Brady’s phone was really an issue, they could have asked Mr. Brady’s agent (who offered at the end of Brady’s interview to respond to further inquiries) to confirm there were no texts with Mr. McNally.
Given the fact that Mr. Jastremski and Mr. McNally had both turned over their phone records, no adverse inferences should be drawn from the fact that Mr. Brady did not make his phone or its contents available.
I admit that I'm biased toward the Patriots. However, I don't think that "deflator" text standing alone is proof of nefarious intent and in the context of the "jacket" part of the text, the weight loss is a plausible explanation. Yeah, I know the chuckleheads will mock it but it does sound plausible to me.
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