Tom Brady proves he was right to fight

Interesting piece, especially considering it's coming from BSPN....

Four games. It took four games -- the same four games he was supposed to be suspended -- for Tom Brady to make a mockery of the idea that the PSI of a football had anything to with what Brady could do as a football player.

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http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/1...triots-was-right-fight-league-deflategate-nfl

....and the haters will say that the article is Pro-Patriot because Matt Bowen, fmr Pats safety wrote it.

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Since I ignore the anti-Patriot hate that BSPN reports, I also choose to ignore the rest of what they report. They can say whatever they want. I don't give them clicks and I don't care what they think.

PatsFanSince74 said:

Since I ignore the anti-Patriot hate that BSPN reports, I also choose to ignore the rest of what they report. They can say whatever they want. I don't give them clicks and I don't care what they think.

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That's a good point of view. I read the piece and, honestly, despite its defense of Brady and the Pats, my reaction mirrors yours. I just don't give a s### anymore.

Yet another article that presumes the balls were unnaturally deflated to begin with.

Bowen Brandt and Lombardi used to work together at my former favorite football site, national football post.

It was a time when former players and agents and managers just needed some outlet. Pretty great writing staff for explaining the business side of football, as well as the X's and O's.

All that to be said, not surprised to see Bowen be level headed on the subject, no matter who he is writing for now.

I read this article by mistake because it came up on my face book newsfeed...didn't see the ESPN moniker.
But yeah the guy is telling Goodell to drop the case because the fans don't want to hear it anymore but does go on to state that he too, believes some psi conspiracy thing happened.You just have to call BS on this article. I think the guy is required, as an ESPN writer to say something negative about Brady.
Furthermore, I think this is a signal that the NFL wants to slink away from this whole mess but are willing to send some snaky parting shots.
I still hope Brady sues the piss out of some people.

Felger was still flapping his gums yesterday by saying, "The only people who refuse to remove their bias and get a clue that something was going on live in this 5 1/2 state region..."

I know it is frustrating, but until the NFL acknowledges that the IGL was the reason for the loss of pressure in the balls, the charge stands. Brady was not found innocent of his charges, but his appeal was upheld because the NFL did not conduct their investigations, judgement and appeal hearing with any degree of fairness. Brady did, however, receive an indirect exoneration during the Berman hearing, when the NFL admitted they had no evidence of his wrongdoing.

This long awaited acknowledgement may never come while Goodell is in office, especially as he can demonstrate that the Wells report found that the Patriots organization had done nothing wrong. NFL's wagging finger still points at two assistants under the influence of a demanding quarterback. NFL spin doctors managed to muddy the waters on the reinstatement of McNally and Jastremski, and the media complied to give the appearance that their dismissal and return was initiated by the franchise alone.

I remain skeptical of any transparency in the new ball measurement procedures, as the Commissioner appears to be as stubborn as he is bone-headed. Until then the franchise and especially Tom Brady remain under the aspersion of guilt. As Bill Simmons said yesterday, it may take 20 years, but eventually there will be a documentary on the criminality involved in sullying the greatness of two of the best participants in the game.

The comments in this thread seem to be conflating the Ian O'Connor article, in which he says he thinks at least the ballboys are guilty, but he isn't sure, and anyway Goodell should just drop it, with the Matt Bowen article, in which he doesn't have an opinion as to whether anybody is guilty, but boy is Brady playing well.

Both are from ESPN.

dannydyn said:

Interesting piece, especially considering it's coming from BSPN....



http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/1...triots-was-right-fight-league-deflategate-nfl

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Their goes the career of MAtt Bowen at BSPN

Eh, I clicked on it. I'm tired of having rules for myself that I can't click ESPN articles. My clicks aren't gonna help them in total too much. I'd rather just move on from this like it was never a big deal then have grudges over this and that for the next 20 years.

Good article, and gets to the heart of the matter: whether or not ANY deflating took place--and mind you, it didn't--it's INSANE that the NFL 1. didn't handle this the way they handle everything else ("hey guys, we know you're doing this, cut it out"), 2. didn't minimize the impact and instead blew things so out of proportion that it became a national news story.

Brady's doing what he's always done, which is dominate football games. He's proving his detractors and accusers wrong simply by the way he's playing.

Anyway, I thought this comment (yes, I read ESPN comments, I like to laugh at the butthurt fans who post there...curiously there are fewer and fewer the more Brady kicks ass) kinda summed things up nicely:

Unbelievable that after all that's come to light regarding Deflategate, people STILL want to talk about whether or not Brady cheated.

We don't know if he did. There is absolutely no proof that he did. You have some sketchy texts and a guy bringing footballs into the bathroom for 100 seconds. On the other side, you have the actual football measurements and science that indicate that they weren't deflated.

What we do know is that
1. Nobody ever cared about PSI level before in the history of the NFL
2. It didn't affect the game in the slightest
3. The NFL lied and railroaded Tom Brady and the Patriots. Something that affected the "integrity of the game" far more than a puff of air.

363839 said:

I read this article by mistake because it came up on my face book newsfeed...didn't see the ESPN moniker.
But yeah the guy is telling Goodell to drop the case because the fans don't want to hear it anymore but does go on to state that he too, believes some psi conspiracy thing happened.You just have to call BS on this article. I think the guy is required, as an ESPN writer to say something negative about Brady.
Furthermore, I think this is a signal that the NFL wants to slink away from this whole mess but are willing to send some snaky parting shots.
I still hope Brady sues the piss out of some people.

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Well if the NFL* wants to slither away and let Defamegate wither on the vine, they can at least leave the Pats' stolen draft picks on the way out.

I don't root for injuries as these players put their future physical well-being on the line for our enjoyment.

I'll just say it would be karmic justice for these Indy fans to lose a valuable player who they are hoping to enjoy for years. It's bad enough what their team put the Pats and us fans through for the last year, but then to troll us with "Deflate this" blimps and Brady cookies is really low rent.

I'm not reading this article. This was a kind of article that was needed to be written by someone in the weeks after the AFCCG, not now. There WAS a time when fair minded people needed to hear another alternative to the Goodell/Welles mind speak that was the daily propaganda the national got. But they never heard it, or if a peep was raised it was shouted down by an avalanche of misinformation coming from the league's puppets.

We all spent months shoveling **** against the tide until that tide started to turn when the truth just got to big to entirely hide. Then the narrative was forced to change, from PSI to non-cooperation. Then the narrative had to change from DID something wrong to probably did some thing wrong. And now in the final stages we've gone from probably didn't do anything wrong now, but got away with lots of stuff before.

What I'm pissed that I continue to see are the multiple qualifications that even these "postitive" stories tend to continue to pass on and think they are doing the Pats a favor. NOTHING happened at ALL that night. The Patriots did not tamper with the balls even in the slightest. One the other hand the league officials running the investigation that night and later for Welles, were rife with incompetence, maliciousness, and deliberate misinformation, over and over and over again.

So sure I believe that things are certainly much better than they were in August, but I'm holding out for Goodell's full and public apology and a 100MMM award going to Brady's favorite charities. THAT will end this when everyone will have to acknowledge the truth......even Fleger, Tangquay and Borges

You said it beautifully Ken!

It took four games for people to figure that out?

The fact that every game since forever has had temp swings that would move the psi above and below what was even claimed without anyone in football ever noticing made it stupid from the beginning.

Saying there's reason NOW to think it's meaningless is really just proof of stupidity.

It's like claiming Niel Armstrong landing on the Moon proves the moon wasn't made out of cheese.

No, in either case believing the former at all proves you are an idiot. They shouldn't be claiming this new evidence is proof, they should be ashamed they were ever dumb enough to buy the ridiculous premise at all.

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The fact that every game since forever has had temp swings that would move the psi above and below what was even claimed without anyone in football ever noticing made it stupid from the beginning.

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Well, you're assuming that the inbreeding knuckle-draggers around that still buy into it actually believe in science. Science is hard for some people...

Joey007 said:

Eh, I clicked on it. I'm tired of having rules for myself that I can't click ESPN articles.

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I don't do ESPN. Nuff said.

If Brady would of stayed suspended we would of been 2-2 right now, two loses to Steelers/Bills, we beat Jags/Cowboys