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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.And yet Kraft chose to lay down like a dog for the appeasement of his fellow owners.
Go Sally! Really great report.
As is usually the case with her, Sally did her homework. What a novel concept for a columnist.I wasn't expecting any member of the press to get it this right, this cleanly. Well done, Sally.
Bumping back to the top of the forum...
I do think he orchestrated it. The leak of the original story to the Indy reporter Kravitz may have come from the Colts or the league office. But, the 2 lbs per ball of 11 out of 12 balls almost had to come from Goodell's office. The fact that this was intentional misinformation and was never corrected when a simple correction from his office would have gone a long way towards containing the Lynch mob that followed.
Which added fuel to the fire they created. If I were Kraft, I would have burned t h e league down to prove that we were set up by the Commish.Not only not corrected, but the NFL explicitly prohibited the Patriots from releasing the correct pressures!
Greg,
I'm finding something incongruous in both Roger and Ted Wells' insistence that Wells also included the league and its demeanor in his investigation.
On February 7, Patriots attorney Daniel Goldberg emailed Jeff Pash to protest Wells' telling the Patriots that the league would investigate itself internally and that the league was not under Wells' purview. The email came under the subject "Scope of Investigation" and was released by the Pats in the "Wells Report Context" rebuttal.
Pash did not correct Goldberg on that point, only reiterated a guarantee of no prejudgment.
So if Wells was not charged with reviewing the league, how can both he and Roger insist a review was done?
And that's not even raising the issue of how perfunctory Wells' "findings" about the leagues demeanor and actions were which Roger seems to credit as being exhaustive.
So what changed after February 7?
Aiello's response:
Tom: I do not anticipate that we will comment further on the Wells report.
Thanks.
Greg
Not only not corrected, but the NFL explicitly prohibited the Patriots from releasing the correct pressures!
She even mentions that before she wrote this article last week she heard from the nfl that they were not happy with her previous column.Not sure if this was posted already or not but Sally will be on WEEI @ 4:30 today.
She even mentions that before she wrote this article last week she heard from the nfl that they were not happy with her previous column.
She even mentions that before she wrote this article last week she heard from the nfl that they were not happy with her previous column.
I did a quick search on Jenkins to see what she's had to say about the Patriots in the past. This was a nice read:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/31/AR2007103102746.html
1. Someone within the NFL released inaccurate information on the balls to ESPN.
2. The NFL wrote to the Patriots false information about the balls and implications the NFL had drawn from the (false) data.
3. The media leak created a huge media story that was permanently damaging to the NE Patriots.
4. Very soon thereafter (too lazy to go get the dates), the NFL knew the true ball pressure data.
5. The NFL willfully failed to correct their error, allowing the false story to blossom.
6. The NFL prevented the NE Patriots from releasing the truth about the balls.
7. The NFL has not explained their behavior.
1. Someone within the NFL released inaccurate information on the balls to ESPN.
2. The NFL wrote to the Patriots false information about the balls and implications the NFL had drawn from the (false) data.
3. The media leak created a huge media story that was permanently damaging to the NE Patriots.
4. Very soon thereafter (too lazy to go get the dates), the NFL knew the true ball pressure data.
5. The NFL willfully failed to correct their error, allowing the false story to blossom.
6. The NFL prevented the NE Patriots from releasing the truth about the balls.
7. The NFL has not explained their behavior.
Let me add that #2 also meant that the Patriots (BB and TB in particular) were given a HUGE distraction in the 2 weeks leading up to the Superbowl, which seems more of a disadvantage than .3 psi in football might be an advantage, you know?
This was deliberate and malicious.
I just listened to the Jenkins interview on demand. At the risk of being repetitive, Sally Jenkins is a breath of fresh air in a wilderness of cesspool stench. After the interview, Jerry Thornton makes the very appropriate comment about comparing what they just heard, namely Jenkins' intelligent, articulate, reasoned and thoughtful analysis vs. Mad Dog Russo's screeching, spittle-spewing tantrum where he just keeps screaming, "Brady cheated!!" over and over again.Not sure if this was posted already or not but Sally will be on WEEI @ 4:30 today.
Where did she say this?She even mentions that before she wrote this article last week she heard from the nfl that they were not happy with her previous column.