That's completely ass backwards in every conceivable way. Assuming that the investigation hasn't shifted over to the league itself, stretching this out gives the league more and more time to engage in a witch hunt to find something to seemingly justify this farce.
Also correct me if I'm wrong but the penalty for Spygate was the largest fine ever leveled against a team and a coach right? And we lost a 1st round pick right? For illegal camera placement for a single half of a single game? And that's going soft? Oh right, because they all think that Spygate involved us filming practices and walkthroughs and cheating to win Super Bowls. I can indeed see that being too light a punishment for those crimes. Good thing that was not what happened at all! F**k the media for constantly implying over the last 7 that all of that happened even though those allegations were officially refuted and retracted back in 2007/8.
You see that's the largest problem in all of this. It's become ingrained in the public conscious that Spygate was us filming team practices before the Super Bowl and things like that. So of course they see our punishment as being too light. Because over the past 7 years the media has given that impression and and now it's a known 'fact' even though all of the true facts are easily available for anyone who wishes to read them. But they don't because these conspiracy theories about the Pats fit their little narrative and they don't want to hear anything to change that.
The final kick in the balls is that people were finally starting to wise up over the past few years and come to terms that the Patriots really didn't do wrong. But suddenly Deflategate happens and all of that progress disappears as people's incorrect beliefs are reinforced.
