Reactions To Kraft 's Presser Dropping the Fight.

So this is what submission in its purest form looks like. "Fetch you your pipe Master Roger? Spit shine them shoes? "

What pisses me off is that fact the fans of the New England patriots have done nothing but support him for 4 months and he does this F**k Kraft. He choose money over F**king integrity

F*** You Kraft!!!

Season ticket waitlist just got a little shorter.

What is the point of being a fan of this team now. Kraft is a gutless joke!

You need to add another choice in the poll:

WHO F***ING CARES?

It ain't about draft picks, a million bucks, or Brady's suspension.

It's about integrity and fighting for your innocence - and that ship just sailed.

Without that, the rest doesn't matter.

Nordberg said:

What is the point of being a fan of this team now. Kraft is a gutless joke!

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You get to pay thousands of dollars a year to be part of the punchline, because the joke's on you, too.

Get real, he got nothing.

Maybe this is what he got, he didn't get worse. I think Goodell told him to back the **** off or things would get worse. The NFL mafia played this one well, they must have something in the sleeves, it was too bad (or good) to be truth. I bet they have fabricated evidence that is being held for a final play.

FrodoBagginz said:

He probably doesn't make his private email known to the public for obvious reasons. If there is an official Patriots email, it's useless really as your emails will be discarded or they will send you some pre-written Kraft approved response.

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You can send a Twitter message. You can comment on Tom Brady's FB page. You can comment on Mike Reiss' article.

patsinthesnow said:

@SI_PeterKing: Kraft1:
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“At no time should the agenda of one team outweigh the collective good of the full 32.”
—Robert Kraft.

That statement is the worst.

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To paraphrase Kraft channeling Spock: "The good of the 32 outweighs the good of the 53." Proving that Kraft is an NFL fan and not a Patriots fan.

I never even contemplated a time where I would be anything but in awe at how brilliant Bob Kraft has been as an owner. That all changed today. I'd imagine Brady is fuming, I honestly don't know what BB will think of it.

I never ever thought that the day would come where I would boo Bob Kraft but that day will be the season opener at Gillette Stadium.

I'm more gutted over this than when we lost the Superbowl after our unbeaten season.

Bob Kraft you have sold out on Patriot nation, on the best coach and QB to ever be in the game. You are a disgrace.

He chose the money, "what was best for business," himself and the NFL over Tom Brady. I'm done with Kraft.

#BoycottGillette.

Kraft has set up a lose-lose for Brady and his franchise. If Brady's suspension is reduced or eliminated by Goodell the talking heads and 31 fanbases will say it's because Kraft and Goodell worked out a deal to bury this 'major scandal', it'd be cameraplacementgate all over again ('Goodell destroyed the evidence for his buddy!').

If Brady's suspension isn't reduced/eliminated by Goodell he can appeal in court and fight the league...after his owner laid down on team penalties, so Brady is left to fight alone and try to clear his own name--and by extension his teams. But without the team fighting alongside him it'll always look like Brady simply battling to eliminate a suspension and not a team trying to prove their innocence, which is a major distinction. The team will forever, once again, be considered cheaters because there was no pushback from the owner.

What a spineless fool. Not making waves in cameraplacementgate worked SO well last time--in fact, you can point directly to him laying down that time to why everyone labeled the team as having a 'history of cheating' during this bullsh*t. Now he's doubled down, when this time there's no smoking gun, the science is in their favor, the franchise QB has wrongly been labeled a cheater and the franchise has once again been railroaded and wrongly labeled cheaters.

What I don't quite understand is some of you are saying "damn now we'll be known as cheaters forever! The whole legacy is tarnished!". You guys do know that regardless of what happened with the appeal, the opinion of the vast majority of people was not going to change one bit? Theyve been known as cheaters even before this Deflategate crap happened. Patriots fans will always defend the team and everyone else will hate them. It's been like that for the last 8 years. What difference did today make exactly?

This is much worse than the SB loss to the Giants who out played us most of the game before Brady's comeback and the fluke catch.

The only thing left is for him to endorse the suspension of Brady. Against the Steelers not one fans should enter stadium just chant player names from outside.

Deus Irae said:

Anyone? Anyone?

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No lubricant?

fresnostatealum said:

What I don't quite understand is some of you are saying "damn now we'll be known as cheaters forever! The whole legacy is tarnished!". You guys do know that regardless of what happened with the appeal, the opinion of the vast majority of people was not going to change one bit? Theyve been known as cheaters even before this Deflategate crap happened. Patriots fans will always defend the team and everyone else will hate them. It's been like that for the last 8 years. What difference did today make exactly?

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Because Kraft just validated it.

"The harm that one man does to himself is worse than what a hundred strangers can do to him"
Some moves are remembered for a short period of time, this one will be talked about for decades. Conceding totally without even getting so much as a reduction in penalties in return is mindbending...
Assuming there is no side deal to totally exonerate Brady and wipe out the suspension (and I strongly doubt there is) this is a sellout worthy of Neville Chamberlain. you have science and evidence on your side and the truth.....
I wonder if the fallout from this is enough to force Mr. Kraft into retirement and let Jonathon take over....

Hael said:

I think a lot of fans are jumping to assumptions. We don't know what Kraft was facing. We don't know what his lawyers were telling him, and we don't know what the backchannel conversations were telling him.

Perhaps he made a deal to get Goodell to recuse himself from the Brady hearing. Perhaps a lawsuit was viewed as likely to be dismissed (thus furthering the haters ammo).

I do think its unlikely that he would abandon Brady and his team's image or his legacy without really being in a no win situation and I do trust that he made the best decision that was available to him.

People that think he was doing this for money... Lol, I guarentee he's lost more money out of the predictable fan reaction than anything the league has ever done to him.

Billionares don't give a **** about nickel and dime affairs, and they definitely care much more about their legacies than anything else.

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So what's his legacy going to be? Cheater! Twice! UNCONTESTED!!!