Breaking: Mort Backs Out; Dennis Claims Kensil As the Source ofthe Bad Numbers

[Hoodie]

Mort, what a P*SSY!

 

[patsfan13]

Grigson...which WTF does he have access to this information.

Plus Gardi, Pash.

 

[RobertWeathers]

Plus Gardi, Pash.

IIRC I didn't think Pash was there that night.

Blandino and Gardi are a big possibility.

 

[MagicMarker]

I used to work for the Seattle Times, and while not in the news department, I could ping the editor with questions. If I did, I would ask him, as a reporter, what is your responsibility to respect a source when that source knowingly gives you false, misleading and prejudicial information? I suspect the response is none. I wonder if Mort was going to name names and someone got to him.


Even besides that, though, it goes way further than Kensil or whoever the source was. When the NFL not only didn't correct the false report, but denied the Patriots the right to do so, that shows the entire NFL office was complicit.

 

[TommyD4207]

IIRC I didn't think Pash was there that night.

Blandino and Gardi are a big possibility.

Blandino was not there that night per John Dennis' source.

 

[RobertWeathers]

Blandino was not there that night per John Dennis' source.

Interesting. OK.

 

[shmessy]

Anyone who wants to talk Whitlock, etc. feel free to start a separate thread.

Let's keep this one relevant to the subject (which happens to be pretty damn important in its own right).

 

[eom]

I emphatically agree.

When I heard the story of how BB shredded Kensil back in 97 for trying to pull rank and tell him what to do that sealed it for me.
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never heard that story --- link, plz

 

[Ras-IR Dowling]

Gotta keep the pressure on them. We need Kensil outed nationally. Put the nfl in the national crosshairs

 

[signbabybrady]

Barstool coming in hot as usual.

http://www.barstoolsports.com/bosto...k-of-false-information-regarding-deflategate/

My favorite part:
"This also answers why the NFL never corrected Chris Mortensen’s report. Why correct a report that you intentionally leaked in the first place?"

 

[MagicMarker]

Question for you locals -- WEEI is linked from the espnboston.com web site. Is WEEI an ESPN station? So, if Mortenson had gone on there this morning and named his source, he'd have done it on ESPN radio? Or is that not true?

 

[Dr Pain]

Kensil became a Facebook Jetsinsider fan in 2010 while he was with the NFL. He has no other likes for anything else NFL. Jets tamper with KBall and there is no investigation etc... the kicker is never contacted. NFLPA used this in their filing to show what the NFL precedent was. NFL wildly deviates from this precedent against the Jets biggest foe.

 

[Rob0729]

Apparently, Mort was too busy this morning taking credit for Peter King breaking that Russell Wilson gets a new contract than to be on the show:

Quarterback Russell Wilson and the Seattle Seahawks have agreed to a contract extension, sources told ESPN's Chris Mortensen.

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/13352599/quarterback-russell-wilson-close-agreement-seahawks

No, they told Peter King. King tweeted it. Then Mortensen confirmed it.

 

[Hoodie]

It was a high ranking source as according to Shefter that'd good enough.

I also don't think Mort knew that there was something very sinister going on behind the scenes...

If Mort didn't suspect anything sinister going on, he's both stupid and naive.

 

[RobertWeathers]

never heard that story --- link, plz

No link. Die hard Jets fan told me who has a family member who did marketing for the team.

He went on to say that when Tuna took over in 1997, there was a major power struggle. Tuna (you know how he is) was hired by Leon Hess and wrestled complete control of all-things football from the old guard (Kensil's dad who was declining in health) his son, Mike was in charge of football ops. Mike had this vision of taking over the presidency (which later went to Steve Gutman) If you recall, BB was Tuna's #2 and he went on to say that Tuna wanted Bill to get the football ops the way they had done it in Foxboro. Bill politely approached Kensil with his asks and Kensil told BB to basically F off (thats not how we do it here). Shortly thereafter, Kensil started stonewalling some of BB's asks around ops and furthermore Kensil started to embarrass BB in meetings. In the end, BB- through Tuna through Hess marginalized Kensil's authority in every and all aspect of football ops and was basically relegated to pushing pencils and ordering towels. IE- Kensil blames BB for destroying him politically in the NYJ. Mangini was part of it in 1997 and he then shared how much of a jerk Kensil was with Woody Johnson, he made it more uncomfortable for him and he eventually left (not sure fired or quit) and went to the NFL.

I'm believing the source b/c I've known this person for over 20 years and it not a BSer.

Up to you if you and others want to believe but for me it answers the question why Kensil has such a vendetta for BB and why he is all over this.

 

[RobertWeathers]

If Mort didn't suspect anything sinister going on, he's both stupid and naive.

Maybe. Hindsight is 20/20.

 

[Hoodie]

So the next question...did Troy Vincent also leak to Stephen A Smith the part about Belichick being one strike from being kicked out of the league?

I hadn't heard this. What's the whole story?

 

[Rob0729]

If Mort didn't suspect anything sinister going on, he's both stupid and naive.

IDK, I don't know if I would have thought something sinister was going on at that point if I was Mort. Not long after I would though and I would start questioning the report.

 

[TommyD4207]

I hadn't heard this. What's the whole story?

John Dennis confirmed through his source that Troy Vincent was the leak to Stephen A. Smith about the "destroyed" cellphone and Belichick being "one strike away".

 

[Rob0729]

I hadn't heard this. What's the whole story?

Smith said he heard that Kraft backed down in May because there was an agreement after Spygate that if Belichick was caught doing something again, he would be banned (it was implied for life, but Smith later said he did not hear it was for life) and Goodell threatened the ban.

It seems like a BS report because Kraft's shot at Goodell two days ago would have put Belichick back in Goodell's crosshairs otherwise.