Sally Jenkins again hammers Goodell and Wells Report

TommyBrady12 said:

if goodell is terminated after all this, it might be all worth it.

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Not sure, but, damn, it's close...

impeccably credible


In 2005 Jenkins became the first woman ever inducted into the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Hall of Fame.

In 1986, Jenkins was part of the team nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for stories about the cocaine-related death of University of Maryland All-American Len Bias.

She is the author of twelve books, four of which were New York Times bestsellers.

Jenkins was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and is a graduate of Stanford University with a degree in English Literature. She lives in New York.

Apparently Deflatehate has revealed Sally Jenkins to be the last honest national journalist in America.

Just imagine how bad the haters must have a hard on for the Pats when the truth is completely and blatantly rewritten for a ratings feeding frenzy.

This is why I don't understand Patriot fans who honestly take Patriot smearing seriously anymore.

It comes from people who the Patriots have just driven absolutely mad and delusional with how RELENTLESSLY DOMINANT Tom Brady and Bill Belichick are together. When you see a hater foaming at the mouth, you're looking at a man the Patriots have just broken.

Bask in it, troll everybody, and talk ****. It's 2005 part II, and they hate us cuz' they ain't us.

If it turns out that there's just NO F-ing WAY that the Patriots did this, how can Goodell keep the penalty as is? How can he penalize the Patriots $1 million, Brady 4 games (and $2 million), and first and fourth round picks? He can claim that the Patriots did not cooperate with the investigation, but (a) they sure did, to a very large degree, and (b) ok, then penalize them the same as other teams who have been charged with that.

Namely:

(1) Brett Favre, during his sexting scandal. Penalty? $50,000.
(2) SD Chargers in 2012, for their towel scandal. Penalty? $20,000.

So fine the Patriots three that for being "repeat offenders" (whatever). Levy a $60,000-$150,000 fine. But there's NO WAY they should be penalized what they did, when it is now clear they didn't do anything wrong.

He can keep the penalty because the team owner gave him carte blanch to do so without a fight.

Palm Beach Pats Fan said:

impeccably credible


In 2005 Jenkins became the first woman ever inducted into the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Hall of Fame.

In 1986, Jenkins was part of the team nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for stories about the cocaine-related death of University of Maryland All-American Len Bias.

She is the author of twelve books, four of which were New York Times bestsellers.

Jenkins was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and is a graduate of Stanford University with a degree in English Literature. She lives in New York.

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Speaking of Jenkins, someone on the Sons of Sam Horn board posed a great question about her piece, and I'm paraphrasing here: "Why hasn't even one NE writer composed a column like hers?"

PatsWickedPissah said:

He can keep the penalty because the team owner gave him carte blanch to do so without a fight.

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Exactly, How the hell he turned on the fanbase for forty pieces of silver is unforgivable.

This is great to read but how bad out the loc

Jackson 2 said:

Speaking of Jenkins, someone on the Sons of Sam Horn board posed a great question about her piece, and I'm paraphrasing here: "Why hasn't even one NE writer composed a column like hers?"

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Because most of them are cowards and/or incompetent, there are exceptions, Mike Curran has done alright, Mike Reiss has raised some questions. There's no excuse for clowns like Felger and squeaky. I actually heard Felger yesterday said that Brady might not want to take this to court and he better be very careful because the NFL has some "small" things they haven't exposed yet. Its mind boggling how obtuse some of these guys are. Felgers a hater disguised as a local guy but he's shown his true colors over the years.

ViperGTS said:

No you are spot on in my opinion. Wells is a fraud as it has now been proven. That report could have been one page. We found nothing. They could have then presented that and saved 5 million. I would also look I to that, then billable hours. For 5 million I better have direct evidence, not contrived. I could have done that report for 5k. Wells looks bad, Goodell looks bad and the ALL of the owners look horrendous as well for standing idly by or capitulating.

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Wells knew what he was doing in fabricating an investigation - he just did a very bad job of it because the overwhelming evidence SUPPORTED Brady... so when the "best recollection" of the official is that no deflation occurred, Wells and Goodell and Co. simply assert that the 25 year old NFL veteran official who's word they took earlier in the report became senile in the interim of his previous recollection

The AMAZING thing is that owners and fans alike are looking at these backflips of illogicity and mindlessly - or mindfully - nodding their heads in agreement... "yeah, that sounds about right!"

Either that or the NFL Competition Committee was able to quickly re-write the Laws of Physics

I jest but I believe Goodell thinks he has the power to do that!

cmasspatsfan said:

This is great to read but how bad out the loc

Because most of them are cowards and/or incompetent, there are exceptions, Mike Curran has done alright, Mike Reiss has raised some questions. There's no excuse for clowns like Felger and squeaky. I actually heard Felger yesterday said that Brady might not want to take this to court and he better be very careful because the NFL has some "small" things they haven't exposed yet. Its mind boggling how obtuse some of these guys are. Felgers a hater disguised as a local guy but he's shown his true colors over the years.

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Felger is a provocateur, a contrarian, a troll.

cmasspatsfan said:

This is great to read but how bad out the loc

Because most of them are cowards and/or incompetent, there are exceptions, Mike Curran has done alright, Mike Reiss has raised some questions. There's no excuse for clowns like Felger and squeaky. I actually heard Felger yesterday said that Brady might not want to take this to court and he better be very careful because the NFL has some "small" things they haven't exposed yet. Its mind boggling how obtuse some of these guys are. Felgers a hater disguised as a local guy but he's shown his true colors over the years.

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I thought the person on SOSH own explanation was pretty much on target. S/he suggested that they're too lazy and/or they're deathly afraid of being tagged a "homer" by their peers. Both good answers, I thought, especially the second one. I've thought for years that the homer label scares the bejesus out of some of them. I listen to a guy like Lou Merloni and at times he begins to vigorously defend the local teams and then seems to catch himself before he goes too far with someone like Benz, the ultimate troll, on his show.

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I thought the person on SOSH own explanation was pretty much on target. S/he suggested that they're too lazy and/or they're deathly afraid of being tagged a "homer" by their peers. Both good answers, I thought, especially the second one. I've thought for years that the homer label scares the bejesus out of some of them. I listen to a guy like Lou Merloni and at times he begins to vigorously defend the local teams and then seems to catch himself before he goes too far with someone like Benz, the ultimate troll, on his show.

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They like being on TV. They won't jeopardize that by being levelheaded. Curran can because he has some clout. Howe has to tread lightly. Merloni is a 50/50 guy and Benz and Volin are Felger and Mazz' love children. When you hear an argument that is "well the science proves nothing happened" and still say they know something happened is the epitome of idocracy.

Doesn't reading an intelligently constructed, thoughtful and insightful piece stand out like dog's balls? I remember a time when this was the norm not the exception.

ausbacker said:

Doesn't reading an intelligently constructed, thoughtful and insightful piece stand out like dog's balls? I remember a time when this was the norm not the exception.

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I see better stuff written in these posts than I do in the media usually. Hell, you could copy and paste different posts together from here, publish it, and it would instantly be one of the most credible and informative pieces out there. It's really sad that they have jobs in media and some around here do not.

What if many have this backwards ... what if Goodell plans on removing Brady's suspension?

What if some of these recent relevations are coming from the Goodell people?

I hate to give him any credit ... but the team has lost it's 1st round pick and that made many rivals elated.

Figure if we're going to discuss this is full then this possibility needs to be addressed - pro and con.

Seems like some others wanted the team punished more than Brady ...

IcyPatriot said:

What if many have this backwards ... what if Goodell plans on removing Brady's suspension?

What if some of these recent relevations are coming from the Goodell people?

I hate to give him any credit ... but the team has lost it's 1st round pick and that made many rivals elated.

Figure if we're going to discuss this is full then this possibility needs to be addressed - pro and con.

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All the exculpatory information would seem to have no connection to the NFL.

If this was a setup by Goodell's lieutenants he can't allow that to become public.

ViperGTS said:

I see better stuff written in these posts than I do in the media usually. Hell, you could copy and paste different posts together from here, publish it, and it would instantly be one of the most credible and informative pieces out there. It's really sad that they have jobs in media and some around here do not.

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I hold many online posters in high regard mainly because they offer well reasoned opinions. It just so happens that Patsfans has more than a few of these gentlemen/women.

Tom E. Curran ‏@tomecurran 2h2 hours ago
Tom E. Curran retweeted Bart Hubbuch

In what publications did their work appear relative to this issue? I'll hang up and listen.

Tom E. Curran added,

Bart Hubbuch @BartHubbuch
Right, because a right-wing "think tank" and Lance Armstrong apologist Sally Jenkins are such huge sources of heat. https://twitter.com/tomecurran/status/611242580131627008…

lurker1965 said:

I always thought reporters tried... until 1991. OT: I ran a quick chess tournament. (G/15 if anyone knows what that means, and we are talking old style analog clocks with flags.) Reporter who showed up, played, and was there for the whole thing, did not just get it wrong, got it so absurdly wrong you wondered if she was ******ed or something.

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Yellow journalism and ideologue/advocate journalism have been around as long as the first amendment. Show me a group of people given the power of information regulation and manipulation, I'll show you expanding examples of abuse. Even if that group doesn't abuse it, the profession itself becomes targeted by groups whose motivation is to manipulate the information the public is exposed to. With that said there did seem (just my own personal recollection) to be more tangible alternative opinions/voices in the media up until recent history.

If I was to guess what the biggest reason for the journalism monolith is, I would say colleges and universities (noting other ingredients such as a disengaged yet adamant public, corporate ownership of media, the need for clicks/viewers erasing standards). Journalism and collegiate ideological views have always had significant interconnection. Of little surprise most modern colleges and universities strongly favored the ideology of: question establishment, question norms/convention, question nationalism, embrace/be more accepting of what is considered different. Yet even with this dominant ideological view, until somewhat recently college and universities still had avenues for alternative and even unpopular opinions (they at one time actually took some pride in varying opinions being heard - even when they didn't like them). Now, in recent years, many colleges and universities have become hyper-intolerant of alternative opinions/dissent. (surprisingly, ahem, this reality and the many many examples of it has gone unreported).

With that kind of near absolute and staunch single mindedness being pushed/accepted, no one should be surprised that all media eventually would become single minded in all its functions/reporting. This wider and wider spread M.O. had to eventually become second nature. The result is a journalism fat pitch like the gaping holes of the Wells Report/Goodell going un-researched and/or unreported (among the many more, and more important, information being pushed aside by an increasingly more encompassing monolith)

ausbacker said:

I hold many online posters in high regard mainly because they offer well reasoned opinions. It just so happens that Patsfans has more than a few of these gentlemen/women.

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Come on Aus, just say what we already know. Most of us PatsFans posters are smarter and way more on top of things .
In all seriousness, on Deflategate some of the fairest and most thoughtful reporting on it has come from this board. Sure, we have seen plenty of homer posting too, however, considering we have understandable and obvious bias/motivation, it makes the lack of official reporting by a profession 'dedicated' to reporting/asking questions even more shameful (though being ashamed requires awareness -- the profession seems to completely lack 'professional' awareness).