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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.I saw it too and made me angry.I just glanced over the top of the page where it has the headlines. I see the following headline...
Bob Kravitz: "Tom Brady needs to beg for forgiveness"
I choked on a piece of chicken and started busting up laughing.
Not sure how I missed it the first time around, but saw this in the report which IMHO makes McNally look even shadier -- McNally's "job responsibilities as Officials Locker Room attendant did not involve the preparation, inflation or deflation of Patriots game balls."
Jastremski is an equipment manager, not McNally. So why are the two talking about McNally doing stuff with the balls?
It is McNally's responsibility to make sure the refs don't overinflate the balls since Brady likes them on the lower end and McNally is the guy with the refs when the refs test and adjust the inflation. McNally even supplies the refs with an air pump. Those text messages came after the Jets game when the refs inflated some of the balls to 16 psi. Within that same conversation Jastremski even told McNally that the balls should have been 13 which completely refutes Well's inferences from his selected texts. Later that same week Brady told them to set the balls at 12.5 and to print off the page of the rule book that addresses psi and provide it to the refs if they try to inflate the balls higher than that. That text message conversation is completely logical.Not sure how I missed it the first time around, but saw this in the report which IMHO makes McNally look even shadier -- McNally's "job responsibilities as Officials Locker Room attendant did not involve the preparation, inflation or deflation of Patriots game balls."
Jastremski is an equipment manager, not McNally. So why are the two talking about McNally doing stuff with the balls?
The problem with all this, even though this report is flawed, is the the NFL mishandled the Rice and to a lesser extreme the Peterson situation. They are not going to look weak again.
Goodell knows this and I guarantee he is finally going to grow a pair of balls and appease all the other owners. I expect a four to six game suspension.
This is bad timing and if this happened before the Rice and Peterson situation the penalty would have been much less severe.
Then explain Woody Johnson getting a slap on the wrist fine for text book tampering when every case before it Goodell fined, stripped the team of a pick and made the two teams swap picks?
As well reasoned as we are going to get from the national media I fear. He makes some valid points, but I still think the conclusion accepts Wells's findings to easily.
Shouldn't he say that Brady "probably" needs to beg for forgiveness?I just glanced over the top of the page where it has the headlines. I see the following headline...
Bob Kravitz: "Tom Brady needs to beg for forgiveness"
I choked on a piece of chicken and started busting up laughing.
Then explain Woody Johnson getting a slap on the wrist fine for text book tampering when every case before it Goodell fined, stripped the team of a pick and made the two teams swap picks?
Also you are naive to think that won't be one of the first things Brady's lawyers would bring up in court about how Goodell and the NFL looked incompetent handling those situations and they are using their client as an example.
Hey you're right. Problem is the teams and the media are outraged by what the pats did and not necessarily what the jets did. I mean is anybody beside pats fans upset about the tampering charges?
What the Jets did does not hurt the integrity of the game as much as deflating the footballs does.
Brady is going to get suspensed and his lawyers can point out all day the nfls incompetence and how other teams didn't get punished enough but I don't think it will do much good.
All Goodell is going to say is what brady did was unprecedented and serious and the suspension is just.
So, textbook tampering to help you sign away from your toughest competitor one of the best defensive players in the NFL does not hurt the integrity of the game?
The problem with all this, even though this report is flawed, is the the NFL mishandled the Rice and to a lesser extreme the Peterson situation. They are not going to look weak again.
Goodell knows this and I guarantee he is finally going to grow a pair of balls and appease all the other owners. I expect a four to six game suspension.
This is bad timing and if this happened before the Rice and Peterson situation the penalty would have been much less severe.
If your premise is that everyone is upset that the Pats won the Super Bowl then I can accept part of what your saying. That's the only thing one could be upset about because this report, while it makes damning accusations, provides nothing to support those claims.Hey you're right. Problem is the teams and the media are outraged by what the pats did and not necessarily what the jets did. I mean is anybody beside pats fans upset about the tampering charges?
What the Jets did does not hurt the integrity of the game as much as deflating the footballs does.
Brady is going to get suspensed and bradys lawyers can point out all day the nfls incompetence and how other teams didn't get punished enough but I don't think it will do much good.
Goodell is going to say is what brady did was unprecedented and serious and the suspension is just.
All I am saying is people need to prepare themselfs for having Garoppolo start several games for the pats this year.
I am pretty sure it does already but much as deflating footballs. I mean we can agree that this deflategate is getting more attention than any tamper change ever has?
Teams are outraged by what the pats did and not what the jets did. Therefore, right or wrong it is much more serious