Somehow I don't think giving away draft picks is something BB wants.
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Somehow I don't think giving away draft picks is something BB wants.
I don't know if I'm on any other ignore list, but I'm glad I'm on fnords
Of course not
Before the Well's report came out the Pats had seen the actual PSI numbers and therefore knew the Mortensen report of 11 of 12 balls 2 being 2 PSI under was false and the league letter sent by the NFL's Gardi claiming one ball was 10.1 under under too was a lie. The first lie almost certainly came from Goodells staff and the second lie absolutely did. Those two lies should have been attacked by the Pats before the Wells report came out. At that point they had a chance to win the PR war and make it far harder for the league to credible drag TB's reputation through the mud.
Stop venting about the venting. Your criticism of the Kraft criticism is detracting from our bashing of him. Kraft needs to be bashed -- as often as possible in as many new threads as possible. Perhaps you should have a sticky announcing your displeasure with this so we can have as many Kraft-bashing threads/posts as needed without your interference. Enough is enough.
Sign me up for that. Without Bob Kraft would have been the St.Louis Stallions.
He made some serious mistakes along the way and at times it was disappointing and infuriating, but I largely agree with you. I don't think anything he could have done differently would have changed the outcome one iota. He's the wrong scapegoat. Goodell and the other 31 weren't going to allow anyone or anything to derail their smear campaign. Simple as that. Finally, to me, the most disappointing aspect of the activity toward Kraft here has been the false, revisionist history. He saved this f###### franchise, pure and simple. Yes, Bledsoe, Parcells and others helped, but Bob Kraft saved it.
I'm frankly scared to comment on the evaluations of the criticism of the criticism with respect to its effect on the bashing...I agree with your analysis. Let's try to get together on this, and other subjects. We are all Patriots fans, yes? Bob deserves tons of credit, but like all of us he's not perfect. I do not believe the NFL expected (or really wanted) him to swoop in, buy the team, build the stadium by himself, and win in unprecedented fashion like this...The league has not really ever been our friend.
Yeah. Although, we do sort of look like the Stallions. Or the Birmingham Americans.
Um, he vent that vay.
I cannot concur with cretinous chumps who carelessly consider that criticizing the criticism connoting commission of a conceivably conclusive catastrophe constituting capitulation carries calamitous consequences. Capiche?
I read sarcasm. My bad
How do the patriots attorneys BEG the league office for the measurements not get them and then get told when they finally do that they can't make them public and Kraft do nothing?
NO one can guarantee what the league would have done or what would have happened if the Pats had taken a different tactic. But we do know that letting blatant lies badly go unchallenged damaged the reputation of Brady and the franchise. I do think that the 11 of 12 Mortensen report gave the league an excuse to make it into a much bigger issue than it first send to be. I do think that lie and the one ball at 10.1 lie in the letter to the Pats certainly threw Brady off stride in the first press conference and set the tone for the rest of this fiasco. I also think that if you let the bully punch you in the face he won't stop until you do something to turn things around.
