Reiss: Brady may not have appealed if he lost

http://espn.go.com/blog/new-england...iots-endings-with-reggie-wayne-and-john-lynch

Interesting insight from Reiss. Can never really be sure about it but no doubt it had a huge toll on Brady during the offseason.

Some good items in the article, but if I hear one more thing about what Brady might have done I will seriously gag.

Real men don't partake in gossip....or care about it.

Bull crappy!!
Accepting punishment is accepting guilt.
How much effort would have been required by Brady himself to appeal? It may be a year out and the lawyers do all the work.
This newly floated idea is a deliberate tactic by the NFLPA/Brady to "appear" deferential, conciliatory, humble.....without having to actually be deferential, conciliatory, humble. A brilliant ploy of painting a harsh image of the mean old NFL. Public Relations 101...create the image you want. Image is everything

Mike Reiss is wrong when he assumes that the appeal would've impacted the season. Hearings would not begin until 2016, and the NFLPA has always been the driving force behind this case all along. So I don't know if they would've surrender to Goodell without exhausting all legal avenues.

Not to mention, Brady isn't like Kraft: He doesn't give up and quit just because things are inconvenient. I think he'll go to the hill to prove his innocence

Now if Deflate Gate continued to impact his marriage...that would be another story.

I could understand not pushing for an appeal in this case. Bringing it to an appeal to the NFL and then pushing it in court for the Berman trial were legit and needed. After Berman - who hammered the NFL for the duration - a loss would have been crippling.

Luckily, the right side prevailed. I still can't get over that first rounder. Even with almost no possibility of winning, Kraft should have appealed. If only to give the appearance of caring. His words ring hollow now.

farn said:

Luckily, the right side prevailed. I still can't get over that first rounder. Even with almost no possibility of winning, Kraft should have appealed. If only to give the appearance of caring. His words ring hollow now.

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It hurts even thinking about the loss of that draft pick.

I can't say this enough....Kraft's gaping character flaws have cost this team dearly. And I simply don't understand why he would allow this to happen. Why would anyone be foolish enough to Roger Goodell, after he screwed this team repeatedly? It just doesn't make any sense.

Purely speculation. A lengthy lawsuit always runs its toll on the family. But I just don't buy this. And its a forgone exercise since Brady did win after all.

Reading Reiss' Sunday notes column only accentuates how pathetically lazy Ben Volin is. I saw someone's print edition of today's Globe and his notes column is 75% cut and paste data from the NFL guidebook.

Volin literally is working off of Cliff's Notes. it's one thing to earn the MCI label - he can't help being born simple-minded, but he is also lazy.

Reiss' work is first-person reporting, thorough and thought provoking.

Hopefully Bill Simmons or MMQB can hire him away from ESPN.

Makes sense

Fortunately, it seems Brady really wasn't in jeopardy of waking that path.

ESPN: Brady's plan was "to" drop lawsuit, "admit" guilt in Deflategate

shmessy said:

Hopefully Bill Simmons or MMQB can hire him away from ESPN.

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I would love for Simmons to hire him to be their investigative reporter for the NFL, the go-to guy on their staff for facts and current news. And in the process, to encourage him to be a bit playful. There's a glint in his eye that shows up sometimes that just might be a mischievous streak waiting to come out.

easy to say now

there's a game thursday

Yeah...find this very hard to believe

borg said:

Bull crappy!!
Accepting punishment is accepting guilt.

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You must spend half your life in traffic court.

RayClay said:

You must spend half your life in traffic court.

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I pay $59 to mystery services and tickets disappear
The key to traffic/speeding stops is to admit guilt before the officer can tell you what you did wrong. "You got me." Cops immediately loosen up because the confrontation never had to occur. One cop said to me after I admitted guilt up front with the excuse that he caught me on a downhill..."You know I have you at high speed of the day.....high five!" ...so I high fived him. Go figure. I was going 93mph and left the stop with a no seat belt warning.
In the last 5 years....7 pull overs, zero tickets. My wife....4 for 4

Despite all the posturing at BSPN, the issue was never in doubt. That's how badly the NFL "brain trust" bungled this case. It was NEVER in doubt. The only people who thought the issue was in doubt were people who didn't know enough of the facts or people who were carrying Goodell's water

I have a feeling putting in crap suppositions like that is the price Reiss has to pay in order to get the other 90% of his stuff published. BSPN needs to be boycotted, even Mike. It's a cesspool down there and they aren't doing anything to clean it up.

Example: After pushing the point prior to the Berman decision that the case had nothing to do whether anything happened or not; BSPN is now pushing the idea that Berman didn't exonerate Brady, and continuing the "he's still guilty, but got off on a technicality" narrative at every chance.

Mike Reiss can decide to swallow his pride and honor in order to feed his family. I can understand it. However the fact that he's good at what he does, doesn't make me have to support BSPN or any of their outlets. Fortunately there are enough outlets that can get me the same info as Mike did. Besides ANYTHING that comes with a BSPN byline is subject to question just on that alone. In other words, if BSPN told me the sun was setting in the west, I go outside with a compas before I'd believe it.

Enjoying watching people shoot down something from as reliable a source on Patriots' matters as anyone as mere 'speculation'.

Reiss doesn't post that if he doesn't trust the source.

Moved onto the Steelers.

Will revisit after the season and see if the league is transparent in measuring balls this season.