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again patrick wonders why kraft folded if he believed his QB.
again patrick wonders why kraft folded if he believed his QB.
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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.Dan Patrick is a tool........ and he cannot get past Kraft (many of us feared that Krafty's capitulation would have this exact this effect).
I think that Kraft also realized that he had little choice but to accept the penalty for the "equipment violation" as it's always been a team penalty anyway. That's being generous to him I know, but in reality, that's what he was faced with. No recourse, except to piss and moan, which was never his style.
I think the answer is pretty obvious. He doesn't want to rock the boat (or in this case, the billionaire boy's club yacht). We, as fans, may not like or respect it, but it's pretty easy to believe more than "He knows they cheated so he backed off."
Him accepting it had nothing to do if he thought Brady was guilty.
In fact, the opposite is true. He was so committed to Brady that he thought throwing the team under the bus would facilitate Tom's exoneration. You can question the reasoning behind that, but the motivation is unimpeachable.
the dan patrick show is awful. they basically suck up to all of the athletes. his producers/cohosts are also douchebags
they all despise brady even before deflate gate. maybe brady snubbed appearing on that crap show
The motivation is not unimpeachable at all. It is simply the motivation he chose to give a fan base that wanted to hang him in effigy.In fact, the opposite is true. He was so committed to Brady that he thought throwing the team under the bus would facilitate Tom's exoneration. You can question the reasoning behind that, but the motivation is unimpeachable.
Sorry, but there is an internal appeals process, which Kraft failed to pursue. If he takes it to court now, it will be tossed out because he did not first follow internal procedures for appeal.There is no internal appeals process for clubs, so Krafts only option was to go rogue and sue the 32, which is just not in his character as a coalition-builder. Were Dan Patrick mildly intelligent, he would certainly grasp this. But, alas, he is not.
I will say it again, as I have said all along, I think it is blatantly obvious.
Kraft disputing Goodell is not acceptable to the league, because the league wants Goodell to have supreme power over the players to hold them down.
Goodell does what he wants, and the owners have to show deference and not object because doing otherwise would show a weakening of their resolve in Goodell as the almighty, which they need him positioned as to keep the players down.
The conversation was very simple.
Bob, its too bad for you, but its us against the players, and you cannot cast aspersions on the judgment of the commissioner, because that will weaken the 32 against their prime enemy, the players.
Kraft needed to have the balls to stand up to that and be the leader who showed them this approach will lead to their own doom, but he instead played lap dog.
Maybe he could have gotten them to adjust the first round pick so if they traded into the round they would keep that pick and give up their own (which is what happened in spygate- they gave up their own and kept the one they traded for)/ Here if they traded back into the first round, they would lose the highest of the picks..That's just salt on the wound....There's some middle ground between no recourse except to piss and moan and completely capitulating and accepting any and all punishment.
There is no internal appeals process for clubs, so Krafts only option was to go rogue and sue the 32, which is just not in his character as a coalition-builder. Were Dan Patrick mildly intelligent, he would certainly grasp this. But, alas, he is not.
Incorrect.There is no internal appeals process for clubs, so Krafts only option was to go rogue and sue the 32, which is just not in his character as a coalition-builder. Were Dan Patrick mildly intelligent, he would certainly grasp this. But, alas, he is not.