Finally! Curran's great article today clearly names Kensil and mocks the NFL

Absolutely fantastic read!!

http://www.csnne.com/blog/patriots-talk/curran-another-black-eye-nfl-deflategate-quest

Admired that Curran takes to task the media that rushed to villify McNally. His words:

" ....Jim McNally, the 48-year-old from New Hampshire who spent about 18 hours in the glare of a national spotlight as the latest face of Patriots evil? It looks like indignant media members who hoisted McNally up by his lapels and slammed him into the wall can let him down now. Maybe dust him off and give him a pat on the shoulder. No hard feelings, old chap...."

And this on Kensil:

"The Patriots have been Kensil’s Moby **** for years, and now he thinks he's got ball shenanigans in progress in the AFC Championship Game. It must have Christmas Day, New Year's Eve and the Fourth of July all rolled into one for 'ol Mike . . . a 20-year employee of the Jets who happened to be in the front office when Bill Belichick left the franchise at the altar by resigning as the HC of the NYJ."

How can I say priceless in all the languages in the world?

Thank you Curran.

Goodell/Kensil are looking more and more sheepish by the moment..

Goodell "talks the talk" about integrity, but in reality the continual leaking of snippets of information has compromised any semblance of order and logic in this organization...

Resign Goodell, before you are relieved of your duties... you and your whole crew are an embarrassment to the league.

What else did you expect from the NFL that has Kensil and Goodell both previously employed by that 3 ring circus known as the J-E-T-S..

Good piece by Tom Curran. I can't decide which has been worse this past month: the snow storms or the media storms. Neither of them stop and they both go whichever way the wind blows.

BlueThunder said:

What else did you expect from the NFL that has Kensil and Goodell both previously employed by that 3 ring circus known as the J-E-T-S..

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Well, technically wouldn't they be a ONE ring circus?

BlueThunder said:

What else did you expect from the NFL that has Kensil and Goodell both previously employed by that 3 ring circus known as the J-E-T-S..

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Ha-hah! Good one. No wonder BB flew out of the Jets FO asylum.

I might be wrong, but I think Curran's is the first article that openly details Kensil's past and his role in both deflategate and this wrongballgate.

Wish we can get this article to be cited or referenced by the other popular national columnists.

I mean, imagine if the NFL currently has two key individuals who worked in the Pats FO before. Wouldn't BSPN immediately point this out and scream murder?

Where the outrage in this Kensil - and Goodell - wilfully allowing our name to be tarnished like this?

I don't care about the haters, but don't the Pats fans deserve better??

I wish Kraft starts something to counter this character assasination.

I for one, would pitch in both time and money, and volunteer to go to Indy and hand out copies of the more sensible articles by a few that blast Bob Kravitz's orignial story and question his intention. And that scmucks has the audacity to claim that his tweets didn't imply we cheated and that he didn't understand that it could be taken out of context. He does think that we fans are imbeciles

Unless these morons realize that their stupid and spiteful reports can have a different reaction other than outpourings in the comments section, they and their bosses will never learn.

Until then, they will continue to churn out any shi*t and baseless smear, quite confident that neither the Pats FO nor the NFL will do anything to smack them across their smug faces.

BlueThunder said:

What else did you expect from the NFL that has Kensil and Goodell both previously employed by that 3 ring circus known as the J-E-T-S..

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The New Jersey Green Beans are the NFL's Clown Academy, and those bozos are two of its proudest graduates.

Tunescribe said:

The New Jersey Green Beans are the NFL's Clown Academy, and those bozos are two of its proudest graduates.

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And Kensil's last words as he flew out of his luxury box towards the field? To Irsay, perhaps? - "I've got them now!". Was Kravitz present then or did he hear from Irsay later when they were partying?

BlueThunder said:

What else did you expect from the NFL that has Kensil and Goodell both previously employed by that 3 ring circus known as the J-E-T-S..

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A fives star post ..........

Does anyone have a sense of what to expect in terms of how transparent Wells will be in describing the NFL's mishandling of the situation?

Tunescribe said:

The New Jersey Green Beans are the NFL's Clown Academy, and those bozos are two of its proudest graduates.

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Inquiring minds want to know WHY??? Why would anyone put former employees of the most dysfunctional football franchise in history in charge of the whole kitten kabbudal? They couldn't make it as jest employees so they're hired to run the NFL

Sicilian said:

Well, technically wouldn't they be a ONE ring circus?

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LOL,,,I stand corrected...You sir are right !!

BradyManny said:

Does anyone have a sense of what to expect in terms of how transparent Wells will be in describing the NFL's mishandling of the situation?

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That depends on who instigated Wells' involvement. Was it Kraft or was it Goodell?

Sicilian said:

Well, technically wouldn't they be a ONE ring circus?

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Do you get a ring for winning one of the early exhibition game Super Bowls, before it was an NFL Championship game?

betterthanthealternative said:

Do you get a ring for winning one of the early exhibition game Super Bowls, before it was an NFL Championship game?

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I believe Joe Namath got a Fifth of Johnny Walker and eventually got a kiss from Suzy Kolber .....I don't know about a ring.

turkeyneck said:

That depends on who instigated Wells' involvement. Was it Kraft or was it Goodell?

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Pretty sure it was Goodell, and yes it's on the league's dime. But Wells, very much unlike the media members writing about this, likely values his reputation, and is in a field where he is held accountable. Wouldn't he be likely to fully disclose any findings? I have trouble believing he would be biased, even given the conflict of interest surrounding the fact he's getting paid by the NFL to investigate the NFL.

I could be wrong. That's just my best guess and I'm curious to hear others.

Now that has nothing to do with what the league does with his findings - I am quite worried the league is going to fail to exonerate us, and give us an ambiguous, face-saving wrist slap of some kind.

BradyManny said:

Pretty sure it was Goodell, and yes it's on the league's dime.

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Formally, yes. But was it Goodell who said "we better hire someone" or was it Kraft saying "Goodell, you better hire someone - and it better be Wells"?

BradyManny said:

Does anyone have a sense of what to expect in terms of how transparent Wells will be in describing the NFL's mishandling of the situation?

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He will do what the NFL says, they hired him to do this investigation.

He can keep everything under wraps (they may just want to keep everything internal, except the "verdict"). Or maybe they keep nothing under wraps (within legal bounds), where everything he finds comes to light. Reality will be somewhere in between.

The information he provides will be the information they want him to provide. I'm not saying he will produce misinformation (he has a high reputation to uphold, which apparently is deserved), but filtered information. We will see the truth through Goodell's filter. Imagine a reporter saying "Something happened on September 11, 2001." It would be true, just not very informative.

In other words, I don't expect to hear anything that will criticize the NFL in any serious way. I expect to see mild exoneration of the Patriots, at best. I expect to see nothing about the details of how this investigation was mishandled initially, and what they will do differently next time.

Because it isn't important that they basically have attacked characters without warrant for the last month, bullying and publicly questioned the integrity of the leaders of our team, allowing a mediot feeding frenzy to explode out of proportion. That's fine. What is bad is if the NFL looks bad. We can't have that. The bureaucrats will circle their bloody wagons and deflect blame outward. Because that's what bureaucrats do.

This makes me admire Kraft all the more for calling them out, and demanding an apology. That's basically saying "It's not enough for you to find we did nothing. You need to own up to your ineptitude and apologize because this is unacceptable."

Boy, I just got myself all pissed off....

Some comments on the comments:

1. Nice job by Curran to completely dismiss "Kballgate" and get Jim Kensil's name and agenda firmly in the spot light. However it does nothing to dismiss "deflategate" one way or the other. We will still be twisting in the wind on that one for the next couple of months.

2. Given the league's incompetence, it looks at this point that it will be very hard for the league to prove any wrong doing on the Pats. However that isn't the issue. Its not enough for the Pats to be found not guilty, they need to be found INNOCENT. So more work has to be done on that.

3. If over the next month Brady and BB AREN'T interviewed by Welles, then ie will be a good indication that complete vindication has a real chance of happening.

4. This article was a nice start, but JUST a start of what needs to be done.

5. I've said this several times before, and will likely say it many more times in the future, what HAS to be done at a MINIMUM is: 1. Kensil needs to be fired 2. Irsay and the Colts organization needs to punished. 3. Bob Kraft, Brady and BB all need personal apologies from BOTH the league and ESPN.

6. Interesting take on Jim McNally. I'd take a little harsher view. If I were McNally, I'd be trying to figure just how big a piece of ESPN I wanted to own