The Official Brady Appeal Thread: Live Updates and Rumors

Chiuba E. Obele said:

Albert Breer ‏@AlbertBreer 54s54 seconds ago
Additionally, my understanding is Wells will give his view of the AEI report, which doesn't exonerate Brady, but claims NFL's case is flawed

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smurfalarm said:

Wells isn't even a very good person to defend his report against the criticisms from AEI. Wells can answer questions about the interactions he had with the NFL and Exponent (specific requests, drafts, etc), the assumptions he made when creating the report, which evidence he chose to include or leave out, and the details of how he executed his portion of the investigation and reached his conclusion. But he doesn't really have the capability to explain or defend the Exponent study in detail, first because he didn't write the study and second because he doesn't have scientific expertise to explain it anyway. If you ask him, "Why do the derived numbers in this table not match the regression equation?" or "Why did the study use two team variables instead of one in the regression model?" or "Why does your report use the p-value from the exploratory statistical test instead of the p-value from a test that includes explanatory variables?" I'm doubtful that he will be able to answer accurately. They should really have at least two actual expert witnesses here, one study author each from Exponent and AEI to explain their respective studies and respond to criticisms.

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smurfalarm said:

***snip*** They should really have at least two actual expert witnesses here, one study author each from Exponent and AEI to explain their respective studies and respond to criticisms.

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hambone1818 said:

What's interesting to me, wrt Wells, Exponent and AEI, is that Wells is a lawyer who performed an investigation. His investigation included scientific analysis by a third party, which reached its own conclusions used by Wells in the report.

If Breer is to be believed, what in god's name should Wells have to say about the AEI report, and why does it matter? He's not a scientist, he's not with Exponent. If this 'independent investigator' angle is to be believed (and honestly, who still believes that?) then the ONLY thing Goodell could ask Wells about the AEI report is how much, if at all, that report would have changed his overall conclusions. Because Wells does not have the scientific credentials to debate one report or another, that data should only be analyzed by the experts, with Wells using the conclusions to aid the main investigation.

If Wells is asked about the contents of the AEI report in any capacity then it'll be obvious (if it isn't already) that this 'appeal' is a complete sham.

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BradyFTW! said:

"This report doesn't exonerate Brady. It just proves that the entire basis on which we convicted him was pure nonsense". God, Wells is such a piece of ****.

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1. Dealing with the science: Done
2. Dealing with the texts: "Never once does anything say I told anyone to illegally deflate footballs. The only time I specifically told anyone to do anything was when I told them to show the officials the NFL rule on football pressure, because your officials screwed up and put 16 PSI into the damned things."
3. Dealing with the phone issue: "Sod off, unless you've got a warrant. I've answered every question, but you're not getting my personal phone."

NFL senior labor relations counsel Kevin Manara, who was assigned specifically to take notes, wrote that “he slapped her; fell; knocked herself out.” However, Judge Jones was “not persuaded that [Manara’s] notes reliably report that Rice used the words ‘knocked herself out.'” She reasoned that Jones’ notes use “slapped” when the majority of witnesses said Rice used the word “hit,” and she pointed to Manara’s concession that the notes describing the assault were not “verbatim.” It’s a subtle way of rejecting the credibility of Manara’s notes without attributing a reason or motive for the lack of credibility.

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NFL senior vice president of labor policy Adolpho Birch strongly disagreed Monday that the league's two-game suspension of Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice for his domestic violence arrest was too light.

Birch, appearing Monday morning on ESPN Radio's "Mike and Mike," responded to criticism via traditional and social media about the penalty, which was handed down Thursday and stems from Rice's arrest after he allegedly struck then-fiancée Janay Palmer unconscious in an Atlantic City casino hotel elevator in February.

"Listen, I think if you are any player and you think that based on this decision that it's OK to go out and commit that kind of conduct, I think that is something that I would suggest to you that no player is going to go out and do that," Birch said Monday. "So in terms of sending a message about what the league stands for, we've done that. We can talk about the degree of discipline, we can talk about whether or not third parties need to be involved. I would suggest to you that a third party has been involved in this matter and that was the court that reviewed it, the prosecutor that reviewed it.

"But if it is a question about what the principle of the league is and what standards we stand by, that cannot be questioned. I think it is absolutely clear to all involved that the NFL does not condone domestic violence in any way and will not tolerate it in our league. I don't know how you can reach a conclusion other than that although I certainly respect the opinion."

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