WinstonSmith
2nd Team Getting Their First Start
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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.He has only ever acted with this team's best interests at heart. He did what he did genuinely believing it would help this team and if you doubt that then you're a fool. After all these years of criticising Belichick and Kraft for numerous things have you NOT LEARNED???.
First- and fourth-round draft picks (plus the $1 million) is WAY too high a penalty for an innocent man/franchise to swallow just for the sake of expediency. Losing those picks is a significant setback for the entire team and, by extension, those who root for it.
I don't care how Kraft reasoned it out, you don't just accept someone throwing the book at you if you're innocent. This was a colossal mistake.
Do you remember our previous discussions about the Wells Report and Kraft's Influence in the League. I have learned over my life that talk is cheap and actions are what count. I was willing to give Kraft the benefit of the doubt when he made his first statement only to have him pathetically capitulate over one weekend. He no longer gets the benefit of the doubt. Time will tell if this is just a publicity stunt or a sincere first step to finally realizing he has no friends or influence in the League and must stand up for his team after eight years of slavish subservience to the POS commissioner. I am reserving my support at this time until he actually earns it, otherwise a lot of people posting are going to look even more foolish than before.I guess haters are just gonna hate...........
then I fear you will be disappointed.As long as he is done with his buddy...I am fine with him
Time will tell if this is just a publicity stunt or a sincere first step to finally realizing he has no friends or influence in the League and must stand up for his team after eight years of slavish subservience to the POS commissioner. I am reserving my support at this time until he actually earns it, otherwise a lot of people posting are going to look even more foolish than before.
Do you remember our previous discussions about the Wells Report and Kraft's Influence in the League. I have learned over my life that talk is cheap and actions are what count. I was willing to give Kraft the benefit of the doubt when he made his first statement only to have him pathetically capitulate over one weekend. He no longer gets the benefit of the doubt. Time will tell if this is just a publicity stunt or a sincere first step to finally realizing he has no friends or influence in the League and must stand up for his team after eight years of slavish subservience to the POS commissioner. I am reserving my support at this time until he actually earns it, otherwise a lot of people posting are going to look even more foolish than before.
Kraft's "apology" to fans doesn't move the needle for me because I simply do not believe he could be so naive as to trust Goodell and the NFL front office after Cameraplacegate and after all the slanderous NFL leaks from January to May. Especially after the Wells report publicly admitted that the PSI info the Pats were given was bogus.
Unless he's completely senile (which I don't think he is, yet) there is no way he could be that naive. So I don't buy his "I trusted them! Boo-hoo-hoo!" spiel for a second. He showed his true colors when it mattered -- the Other 31 over his own team and player.
This act was shameless PR and I don't buy it unless we see public, concrete action behind it.
And the most maddening thing of all is he cynically played the fan base for suckers two days ago with his faux mea culpa knowing it would work (re., the ovation he received yesterday at training camp). I'm sure he's now struttin' around believing he's off the hook and everything's hunky dory.Here's the thing:
Even if we take Kraft at his word, it just means that he was stupid enough to believe that the same NFL that had hammered the Patriots in 2007, and the same NFL that had shown clear bias during the early days of the investigation, would suddenly do a 180 degree turn and head on over to Chummytown with the Patriots, when so many others knew the league couldn't be trusted So, even if he was being honest, which he wasn't, he'd still need to file suit (I was lied to and that won't stand!) or step down (I was duped, so it's clear I need to step down) in order to even begin to make things right.
And the most maddening thing of all is he cynically played the fan base for suckers two days ago with his faux mea culpa knowing it would work (re., the ovation he received yesterday at training camp). I'm sure he's now struttin' around believing he's off the hook and everything's hunky dory.
Disturbing, to put it mildly. Frightening, when you extrapolate such behaviors to things that really matter.There's no reason for him not to. Hell, there's probably not a better informed group of fans than those that regularly follow Patsfans.com, yet we've got a significant group willing to play the chump on this. Think on that.
If everyone I dealt with was so easily manipulated, my life would be a walk in the park.People here know better, yet they still let themselves be fooled. If the most knowledgeable are that willing to be played for chumps instead of being principled human beings, imagine how it played with the more ignorant fans.
Disturbing, to put it mildly. Frightening, when you extrapolate such behaviors to things that really matter.
If everyone I dealt with was so easily manipulated, my life would be a walk in the park.
bwahahahahahahahahahahaha, u arent serious with this statement, right?Or, maybe , just maybe, Kraft genuinely meant it?