Deflategate connect the Dots

OK my take on how we got to this point with deflategate.

My operating assumptions, which will be explained and questions which will be answered.

1) Brady did NOTHING WRONG

The balls behaved as they should given the Atmospheric conditions.
If Brady wanted the balls inflated <12.5 psi, why tell Jawerski to deliver them to the refs @12.5 psi if he wanted McNalley to deflate them anyway?
Brady is a perfectionist, he wouldn't wanted the psi varying from ball to ball, if the balls are being deflated in90 secs in the bathroom it is extremely unlike the psi would be consistent from ball to ball.

2) there was a sting in place to "get the Patriots"

The letter to the NFL, from the Colts requesting the refs to be alert, likely gamesmanship on the part of the Colts, given how the Pats had destroyed them the past couple of years. Kensil saw his opportunity to get back at BB and the hated Patriots.

NFL doesn't disclose to the Patriots preface that the Colts had registered a concern about the inflation of footballs.
Kensil's reaction when the Val's were less than 12.5 psi "We weighed the balls, you are in big fu@@ing trouble."
Blandino lying about being informed of questions about ball inflation issue raised by the Colts. He claimed before the SB that the issue came to the leagues,attention during the game by a Colts employee. The Wells report verified that the league and Blandino that the Colts sent a letter about ball inflation prior to the game.

There are leaks to Mortensen about 11 of 12 footballs being 2psi below the spec. As the wels report documented none of the balls were close to 2 psi low. The NFL knew the reading based on the halftime measurements, and did nothing to correct the exaggerated and false information that drove the story and more importantly public perception. We will also note that the league kept the Patriots in the dark about the real measurement for months.

I don' t believe Goodell was in on the sting, this was an operation by his NY Jets crew Kensil, Giadri ect, as we see from kensil' quote he didn't understand the difference between weight and pressure.

Things were going great then physics got in the way. By jan24 the Headsmart Labs started going viral, national media were being made aware of the Ideal Gas Law (our very own Palm Beach Pats Fan educated Peter King on the Physics of footballs.

So the story had taken off as the NFL FO cabal had hoped but the narrative looked like it could go off the rails, it was science vs the leaked info. By them the NFL Cabal realized that if the real measurements got out they were hosed.

Enter Ted Wells 'Independent Investigator' around Jan 26. By now we all know of Welles's firm many dealing with and Millions of billings collected from the NFL. He is anything but independent.

Months later he produced the work product Goodell has paid millions for. As we have noted he tortured to data to try to establish that perhaps the balls we .3 psi below where the IGL would predict. By using Anderson 'best recollection' of the balls psi preface as gospel, but not his 'best recollection' of which gauge he used. Especially funny since the gauge with the bent pin & logo would have been sorta distinctive compared to a non damaged gauge.

IMHO the purpose of the Wells investigation was to protect Goodell, nothing more, nothing less.

If it were to come to light that the Patriots were the target of a sting by the NFL front office,ie Goodel's minions. He would have bee toast he would have lost his job as commissioner, it wouldn't have mattered if it was Kensil's sting, he would have taken the fall for the 'crimes' of his underlings.

Brady's reputation and the Patriots reputation were just collateral damage.

When idiots in the media protest 'why would the NFL want to suspend one of it's marquee players?

They didn't want to, they were hoping to snare BB, but when they realize there was nothing was done, Goodell needed a way out. Brady takes it in the throat and the Pats get hosed to make the mob happy and protect Goodell, mission accomplished.


This is why Brady sues the league and we get discovery Kensil, Goodell, Giardi, Blandino and the rest under oath and they're ail and cell phones examined, Brady isn't the one worried about what might come out, the NFL is terrified of what can be brought to light.

This is being composed on an iPad sorry for the typos no rambling nature of this vent. But this is what I think the facts point yo.

A lot of people lied to keep their jobs, this could have should have been Goodell's undoing and he got saved by a whole lot of lies.

Without the obfuscation of Wells narrative Goodell was screwed. This is why I'm hoping Brady fights this all the way, even if his suspension is overturned.

You make a lot of good points but I don't think it is too complicated.
The league/Goodell was presented with an opportunity, thanks to the Ravens and Colts, to punish a team that is disliked by many fans (the dumb envious masses in this case and frequently others), disliked by a fair amount of other teams and their employees, disliked by a fair amount of league employees (some of them previously members of teams that disliked the Patriots), and one already punished by league/goodell without any blowback or negative consequences whatsoever.
So not only would Goodell and his underling lops feel certain that extremely few in the media or league question his motives -- they just had to come up with even a relatively thin way to declare and sell "guilty!" -- the easy sale of this fiasco allowed for a backdoor way to re-exert power (look what I am doing with this hand -- as the other hand swipes your wallet).
Voila! a PR Justice driven office was provided an easy PR win, one that can help realign office processes (to not only avoid future rebukes previously given by Doty, Tagliabue and another, to sends a message that I am the decision maker, period).

Despite Goody's magnanimous comment that he will chat with the man he "respects and admires" (Brady) and in effect has an open mind to new evidence or even a better explanation, any backtrack on this risks the starting of Goody's swan song. He knows he has gone too far to say "whoops, sorry. My underlings and my multimillion dollar investigator got it wrong. Sorry to the 1,000,000 million ballwashers who made my decision look unassailable, and real sorry Tom for the smear job". I just do not see how Goody survives that kind of backtrack -- so there is no way in hell he will backtrack unless he has no other path to take or he can safely say the evidence that changed his mind was absolutely not available to him previously.

While it is not wildly probable, pray to whatever god or spirit of good luck that this will get in front of a non NFL third party. And this third party doesn't just decide if the amount of punishment was procedurally correct, he/she will also review the wells report, provide Brady's side an opportunity to give their evidence, and will make a judgment on if this rises to a level of guilt.
If that happens, again it probably isn't wildly likely, it will not only completely clear Brady procedurally (don't care about the dumb envious masses), it will assuredly weaken Goodell and possibly be the opening note of his swan song.
That is what I would call a win-win

Here's my attempt at playing connect the dots.

1. The NFL pre-determined the Patriots guilt.
2. The NFL found the Patriots guilty.

Unlike many on here i am no believer in the theory that Goodell is a victim of his underlings.

It is my opinion that Goodell is up to his eyeballs in this plot from its very inception.

The simple proof is the false Email to Kraft after the sting which stated that one football was 10.1 lbs and the leak to Mort that the balls were 2 Lbs under regulation. There are others but later on in the unfolding of this conspiracy.

Both of these were easy to refute with a simple press release. Yet that press release never happened. Why? Because the plan was to get Brady from the beginning and do as much damage to the Pats as possible.
In the mind of the NFL HQ and several of the owners the Pats must be brought down and TB12 must be branded a cheater.

Further proof is revealed in the long running nature of the plot against the Pats; you do not get three media firestorms leading up to the Pats 3 previous Superbowl appearances without planning and coordination at the highest level.

An additional point is the remark by one NFL HQ employee "we FINALLY got those MotherFu ers". This speaks to a long running focus by the NFL HQ in Nailing the PATS.

Goodell is not doing this on his own. A core group of owners has to be the real power behind the Throne. Most likely this group would be made up of Old Line Family's, first and second generation owners, as small powerful groups tend to be ruled by their patriarchal roots.

This small core group of owners is why Kraft got no support at the owners meeting and was forced to kneel before Goodell in a public display of fealty.

Goodell is not the driving force in this attack but rather in the minds of the these power brokers Goodell is merely their errand boy, an empty suit who stands before the camera and recites his lines. When the time comes, and it will, he will be their public FALL GUY while they continue too remain in the shadows and hire there next empty suit.

I think the NFL lost control of this situation early on, the initial article by Kravitz and then the mysterious leak of every ball 2+ less of air pressure by Mort all led to a bored and idle mediot feeding frenzy..

The NFL was backed into the corner, so they made the outcome fit the allegation.. despite a preponderance of evidence indicating otherwise.. the fact that the first four balls from Indy that were measured with comparable with the first four balls that the Patriots measured shows the idiocy of all of this..

Goodell had a very bad year, and this is his redemption badass tour.. right now he thinks he is the baddest MF in the NFL, but he forgets there is always someone badder than you think you are..

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