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Read this just now and maybe, just maybe we can see the knife turning towards the farce this entire issue has been, the rat that Goodell is and possible expose some of the total arrogant mean spirited jerks from the NFL and their poison penned mediots.
With the Sally Jenkins article, followed by Dan Batard's and the continuing spot on analysis by Tom Curran, things may be changing for the better.
Speaking of Tom Curran, he has been on fire throughout all of this, props to Prentice!!
Check this out:
http://blog.masslive.com/patriots/2015/05/national_deflategate_focus_beg.html#incart_story_package
Now, it seems as though there is a third layer to this. From the minute the Wells Report was released to the minute Kraft surrendered, the national conversation was the Patriots vs. the NFL. As the Patriots have removed themselves from the battle, the heart of the conversation has shifted away from the organization's perceived arrogance in fighting to prove its innocence when most people agree that they're not innocent.
The best possible outcome for the Patriots was never proving their innocence or Tom Brady's innocence. The best outcome was proving that the NFL never cared about deflated footballs (WellsReportContext.com essentially did that) and proving that Roger Goodell's motives have little to do with protecting the "integrity of the game" and more to do with protecting and re-building Roger Goodell's image.
What's worse: An organization that commits a minor violation and refuses to admit it or the league office that turned the minor violation into a scandal of Clinton-Lewinski proportions so it could reap two benefits -- the international hysteria generated by said scandal and the subsequent appeasing of the masses with heavy-handed punishment.
Probably Option B.
(The irony in all this is that Goodell's public image is so far gone due to the Rice debacle that any punishment of the Patriots, even if it was appropriate, wouldn't help him).
With the Sally Jenkins article, followed by Dan Batard's and the continuing spot on analysis by Tom Curran, things may be changing for the better.
Speaking of Tom Curran, he has been on fire throughout all of this, props to Prentice!!
Check this out:
http://blog.masslive.com/patriots/2015/05/national_deflategate_focus_beg.html#incart_story_package
Now, it seems as though there is a third layer to this. From the minute the Wells Report was released to the minute Kraft surrendered, the national conversation was the Patriots vs. the NFL. As the Patriots have removed themselves from the battle, the heart of the conversation has shifted away from the organization's perceived arrogance in fighting to prove its innocence when most people agree that they're not innocent.
The best possible outcome for the Patriots was never proving their innocence or Tom Brady's innocence. The best outcome was proving that the NFL never cared about deflated footballs (WellsReportContext.com essentially did that) and proving that Roger Goodell's motives have little to do with protecting the "integrity of the game" and more to do with protecting and re-building Roger Goodell's image.
What's worse: An organization that commits a minor violation and refuses to admit it or the league office that turned the minor violation into a scandal of Clinton-Lewinski proportions so it could reap two benefits -- the international hysteria generated by said scandal and the subsequent appeasing of the masses with heavy-handed punishment.
Probably Option B.
(The irony in all this is that Goodell's public image is so far gone due to the Rice debacle that any punishment of the Patriots, even if it was appropriate, wouldn't help him).
