Great Washington Post Column

And the first reader comment that pops up for me is this:

"Sally casts quite a bit of doubt on the Wells report, so why wouldn't Kraft challenge it and the penalties? "

There you go Mr. Kraft. This is why you defend your integrity and not cave in order to "end it." It doesn't end.

I wasn't expecting any member of the press to get it this right, this cleanly. Well done, Sally.
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dales804 said:

And yet Kraft chose to lay down like a dog for the appeasement of his fellow owners.

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Thus undermining the conclusion of the column.

Sally's tweet is up to 549 RTs and 436 favorites... not nearly enough! Those numbers need to triple...

https://twitter.com/sallyjenx/status/601517832078254080

raduray said:

Gotta love Sally Jenkins.
http://tinyurl.com/mwk557j

If you run into the paywall, go incognito.

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Go Sally! Really great report.

betterthanthealternative said:

I wasn't expecting any member of the press to get it this right, this cleanly. Well done, Sally.
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As is usually the case with her, Sally did her homework. What a novel concept for a columnist.

Not sure if this was posted already or not but Sally will be on WEEI @ 4:30 today.

old 55 said:

I do think he orchestrated it. The leak of the original story to the Indy reporter Kravitz may have come from the Colts or the league office. But, the 2 lbs per ball of 11 out of 12 balls almost had to come from Goodell's office. The fact that this was intentional misinformation and was never corrected when a simple correction from his office would have gone a long way towards containing the Lynch mob that followed.

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Not only not corrected, but the NFL explicitly prohibited the Patriots from releasing the correct pressures!

QuantumMechanic said:

Not only not corrected, but the NFL explicitly prohibited the Patriots from releasing the correct pressures!

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Which added fuel to the fire they created. If I were Kraft, I would have burned t h e league down to prove that we were set up by the Commish.

don't know if it was intentional, but by Kraft crying 'uncle', it has not take long for him to fall out of the spotlight.....

however, there is more scrutiny on the league office, and it appears they're going to try to railroad media types who won't take too kindly to being railroaded......

stay tuned

http://www.csnne.com/new-england-pa...odell-covering-up-nfls-deflategate-misconduct

Greg,

I'm finding something incongruous in both Roger and Ted Wells' insistence that Wells also included the league and its demeanor in his investigation.

On February 7, Patriots attorney Daniel Goldberg emailed Jeff Pash to protest Wells' telling the Patriots that the league would investigate itself internally and that the league was not under Wells' purview. The email came under the subject "Scope of Investigation" and was released by the Pats in the "Wells Report Context" rebuttal.

Pash did not correct Goldberg on that point, only reiterated a guarantee of no prejudgment.

So if Wells was not charged with reviewing the league, how can both he and Roger insist a review was done?

And that's not even raising the issue of how perfunctory Wells' "findings" about the leagues demeanor and actions were which Roger seems to credit as being exhaustive.

So what changed after February 7?

Aiello's response:

Tom: I do not anticipate that we will comment further on the Wells report.

Thanks.
Greg

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QuantumMechanic said:

Not only not corrected, but the NFL explicitly prohibited the Patriots from releasing the correct pressures!

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1. Someone within the NFL released inaccurate information on the balls to ESPN.
2. The NFL wrote to the Patriots false information about the balls and implications the NFL had drawn from the (false) data.
3. The media leak created a huge media story that was permanently damaging to the NE Patriots.
4. Very soon thereafter (too lazy to go get the dates), the NFL knew the true ball pressure data.
5. The NFL willfully failed to correct their error, allowing the false story to blossom.
6. The NFL prevented the NE Patriots from releasing the truth about the balls.
7. The NFL has not explained their behavior.

DaBronxPats14 said:

Not sure if this was posted already or not but Sally will be on WEEI @ 4:30 today.

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She even mentions that before she wrote this article last week she heard from the nfl that they were not happy with her previous column.

SVN said:

She even mentions that before she wrote this article last week she heard from the nfl that they were not happy with her previous column.

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Remember when most journalists were not just PR flaks for the White house, the NFL front office....

Good Times!

SVN said:

She even mentions that before she wrote this article last week she heard from the nfl that they were not happy with her previous column.

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And goes on a radio tour to continue it, lol Classic!

Uncle Rico said:

I did a quick search on Jenkins to see what she's had to say about the Patriots in the past. This was a nice read:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/31/AR2007103102746.html

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I think I'm falling in love with this woman. She. Gets. It.

Sport is the pursuit of perfection, every detail.

Someone mail this article to Marshall Faulk and the other mediots.

Mack Herron said:

1. Someone within the NFL released inaccurate information on the balls to ESPN.
2. The NFL wrote to the Patriots false information about the balls and implications the NFL had drawn from the (false) data.
3. The media leak created a huge media story that was permanently damaging to the NE Patriots.
4. Very soon thereafter (too lazy to go get the dates), the NFL knew the true ball pressure data.
5. The NFL willfully failed to correct their error, allowing the false story to blossom.
6. The NFL prevented the NE Patriots from releasing the truth about the balls.
7. The NFL has not explained their behavior.

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"7. The NFL has not explained their behavior"

They already knew the outcome from all of this and the behavior is the punishment after all the media and fans went nuts during superbowl week for ****ing PSI in footballs.


discracefull.......

Mack Herron said:

1. Someone within the NFL released inaccurate information on the balls to ESPN.
2. The NFL wrote to the Patriots false information about the balls and implications the NFL had drawn from the (false) data.
3. The media leak created a huge media story that was permanently damaging to the NE Patriots.
4. Very soon thereafter (too lazy to go get the dates), the NFL knew the true ball pressure data.
5. The NFL willfully failed to correct their error, allowing the false story to blossom.
6. The NFL prevented the NE Patriots from releasing the truth about the balls.
7. The NFL has not explained their behavior.

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Let me add that #2 also meant that the Patriots (BB and TB in particular) were given a HUGE distraction in the 2 weeks leading up to the Superbowl, which seems more of a disadvantage than .3 psi in football might be an advantage, you know?

This was deliberate and malicious.

50-yard-line said:

Let me add that #2 also meant that the Patriots (BB and TB in particular) were given a HUGE distraction in the 2 weeks leading up to the Superbowl, which seems more of a disadvantage than .3 psi in football might be an advantage, you know?

This was deliberate and malicious.

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this seems to bring back memories of another ....gate that broke into Superbowl week.....what year was it....

memory isnt finding it or its blacked out......

DaBronxPats14 said:

Not sure if this was posted already or not but Sally will be on WEEI @ 4:30 today.

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I just listened to the Jenkins interview on demand. At the risk of being repetitive, Sally Jenkins is a breath of fresh air in a wilderness of cesspool stench. After the interview, Jerry Thornton makes the very appropriate comment about comparing what they just heard, namely Jenkins' intelligent, articulate, reasoned and thoughtful analysis vs. Mad Dog Russo's screeching, spittle-spewing tantrum where he just keeps screaming, "Brady cheated!!" over and over again.

SVN said:

She even mentions that before she wrote this article last week she heard from the nfl that they were not happy with her previous column.

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Where did she say this?