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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Even if the NFL agreed to exonerate Brady, I wouldn't trust them not to give background comments to reporters that "it wasn't really an exoneration" and "we wanted to get this behind us".......besmirching Brady.
F them all...........
This whole thing is a sham, a scam and a sting devised at NFL headquarters.................
Not if the NFL insists that "nothing is agreed until everything is agreed" and makes any reduction in penalty contingent on Brady's not litigating further.
If Brady is exonerated, it doesn't matter what the NFLPA thinks about it, as its interests are no longer completely aligned with Brady's.
I'm not a lawyer.If the NFL is requesting from Brady a promise of no legal action in exchange for a greatly-reduced penalty, then this appeal WILL be overturned.
Why?
Because that would mean that it was simply not an appeal. In an appeal you review all of the evidence again to determine if the initial decision was correct or not. An appeal is not an opportunity to negotiate a settlement.
I know that it's been speculated/reported that the NFL has offered this. If they have, I think that they have shot themselves in the foot while painted into a key-less corner.
I'm not a lawyer.
I don't even know how that got into the discussion. That would be a multi million dollar "fine" and is a non-starter I imagine from Brady's perspective.If it's a big fine, sure. If it's essentially wiping Brady's paycheck for those 4 games clean, I don't see how working for free is in his interests either.
As I said, I'd bow to a lawyer who is engaged in litigation on this one, but I think that people make deals like that every day in courtrooms all over the US.Me neither, but common sense tells me that Goodell offering a "deal" with a quid pro quo makes the entire proceeding not a legitimate appeal.
I'd like to hear the opinion of a lawyer though.
If the NFL is requesting from Brady a promise of no legal action in exchange for a greatly-reduced penalty, then this appeal WILL be overturned.
Not the Mona Lisa Vito of the law?I'm not a lawyer.
And if Brady decides to take the deal then precisely who will be in a position to have it overturned?
Yeah, that's pretty much what Gary Myers implied without directly stating it in his article on Wednesday and again in Sunday's paper.
I think Brady will accept an offer of a small fine for the cooperation issue and 0 games. Anything less and this goes to court.
It still might for defamation.
Just wish the team penalties came back.
I don't even know how that got into the discussion. That would be a multi million dollar "fine" and is a non-starter I imagine from Brady's perspective.
"Exoneration" means that the NFL states in clear an unequivocal terms that Brady had nothing to do with activities against the rules related to the "deflation" of the balls and that there are no penalties to him for that.
"Fine for not co-operating" means that, once he has been exonerated, he is willing to enter into some compromise that enables the NFL to save face by agreeing to be fined for not handing over his cell phone records in their entirety. The precedent for this is a $50,000 fine to Favre for something similar, so the NFL has a problem. The question is how big a penalty would Brady be willing to accept for this less significant "infraction" in order to avoid going to court and make this all go away. Another poster mentioned that the maximum fine for a player in cash is $250,000. Others have suggested that he might accept a one game suspension. I doubt he'd be willing to take more than that, though.
It's all a matter of the tipping point at which Yee and Brady perceive that the risk of going to court is exceeded by the cost of the fine for non-cooperation.
Brady isn't taking anything less than full exoneration. His reputation and legacy are more important than anything he would risk.And if Brady decides to take the deal then precisely who will be in a position to have it overturned?
Heh heh. Yeah, I do think they're using Myers to float trial balloons. He's as well plugged-in to the goings on at 345 Park as any NY writer and he's kissed their butts enough that they'd trust him to do so.You're hypothesizing that the NFL is planting stories, and you're observing that the stories make Goodell look like a corrupt moron.
Hmmm.
No argument. My point was more along the lines that a four game fine was DOA and the question was whether the two sides could agree on something else closer to the Favre number, all on the assumption that he was completely exonerated of complicity in "deflation," that crime that he could not have committed because it never occurred.Right, but the question was if Brady would take a four game fine to replace a four game suspension. If we're assuming a reasonable fine, the answer to the titular question is so obvious that the thread should never have been made. It's a choice between not playing at all and not getting paid at all for four games or playing and getting paid slightly less. The only real "choice" would be if Brady received a multimillion dollar fine, in which case he would be playing mostly for free, so I took that as the basis for discussion since I figured a sounding wall of "Yeah, duh" wasn't interesting.
I'm surprised that Goodell hasn't started an investigation into the Patriot's use of drones in OTA's............not sure why Dallas and the Giants get off scott free...oh wait...It has something to do with the Patriots.....
Is there such a thing as spying on yourself??????