Memo to every reporter and person who thinks this ruling wasn't about guilt or innocence

[Bledsoehasaring]

Brady's legal victory today on the surface was only about process and says nothing about his actions one way or another in regards to deflating footballs. At least that is what the NFL and many reporters would like you to believe.

In order to falsify that ridiculous narrative one need not look to far into the actual facts of deflategate to know, well that this simply isn't true. Judge Berman's scathing review of the process of deflategate shines the light on one key fact that many chose to ignore, the NFL acted unfairly and illegally in this case.

The question then becomes why are so many willing to accept that the process of convicting Tom Brady was flawed but not the facts of the case, which were spoon fed to them by the same organization that failed so miserably in the process?

The facts and narrative of this case were controlled almost entirely along the way by the NFL. Seemingly at every step along this road the "facts" which the NFL assured us were "facts" turned out not to be true. The initial leak to Mort was not correct. Roger Goddell assured everyone that the Wells Report was independent. Goodell's ruling was exposed to misrepresent Brady's testimony and science has shown at the very least that the possibility that the balls were never deflated in the first place is very real.

At every turn the NFL has publicly back pedaled. First emails from the Patriots showed the NFL refused to correct the leaks, then in Federal Court it admitted the Wells report was not independent. The NFL also stated it didn't matter if Goodell's ruling was accurate or fair, it only matters what Roger thinks is accurate and fair.

The NFL's final and only real legal defense in Federal Court was the truth ultimately was not important; only Roger's version of the truth was important. So if Roger's ruling is based on an incompetent process, why are so many willing to except the NFL's version of the "facts" as competent? That is the rub.

The case against Tom Brady is based on "facts" presented by an organization that has proven that even when their own version of the "truth" is provided for them by them, they are not competent enough to use those "facts" to punish their own players because they can't even understand how to do so legally within the rules of their own organization.

Think about that. The NFL decided Brady was guilty. That really is the hard part. Once they did that they couldn't even punish him in a way that was legal in regards to their own rules, set forth by their own organization.

So please I beg you media stop reporting that today's ruling was only about process because the "facts" of this case cannot be separated from the process. The NFL made sure of that once they got into the fact finding business with Ted Wells.






mod edit: one single paragraph is tough on the eyes; paragraphs are our friend!

 

[Palm Beach Pats Fan]

 

[Ice_Ice_Brady]

To me, it doesn't matter. The Wells Report was a complete sham, and beyond that, it never even concluded he was guilty, but the media did. A ton of people will believe that this ruling means Brady was wrongfully accused, which he was. Whatever the actual ruling is, all that matters is the headlines...we know that all too well.

 

[BradyFTW!]

This ruling exposes that the entire process was garbage. It was a smear campaign. And if the process was garbage, then all conclusions stemming from it were garbage. So we're back to square one: we have an accusation that balls were deflated. We have no credible evidence to support this accusation, and in fact the accusation (the Wells Report) is blown up by even basic scrutiny.

So yes, this report absolutely exonerates the Pats and exonerates Brady.

 

[MagicMarker]

This is the flip side of the original problem we had of people only reading the headline - Patriots were guilty, no need to read the criticisms of the Wells report. Now, all the news is the NFL lost in court. Nobody reads the way. This should move public opinion.