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"The cover up is worse than the crime"...
Listen...Tom Brady may or may not have been guilty for anything directly to deflating the balls. We're all angry because we don't think that the NFL proved "beyond a reasonable doubt" that he's guilty.
But as a fanbase we are becoming a laughingstock because there's one thing that we're all refusing to acknowledge because of our faith in TB which everyone else outside of us simply can't look past, which is that Brady should never have destroyed his cell phone.
This process wasn't a criminal court proceeding where the burden of proof to prove deflategate is "beyond a reasonable doubt". The balance of probabilities is the threshhold, but when a defendant destroys evidence the burden of proof gets flipped and the defendant will always be forced into a position where he is forced to prove his innocence.
That was unforgivable as noted by the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals judges:
http://www.patsfans.com/new-england...sfans-com-patriots-fan-forum.10/create-thread
"[T]he Commissioner did not increase the punishment as a consequence of the destruction of the cell phone — the four-game suspension was not increased. Rather, the cell phone's destruction merely provided further support for the Commissioner's determination that Brady had failed to cooperate, and served as the basis for an adverse inference as to his participation in the scheme to deflate footballs."
Finally, any reasonable litigant would understand that the destruction of evidence, revealed just days before the start of the arbitration proceedings, would be an important issue. It is well established that the law permits a trier of fact to infer that a party who deliberately destroys relevant evidence the party had an obligation to produce did so in order to conceal damaging information from the adjudicator."
WE ARE BECOMING A LAUGHINGSTOCK AROUND THE LEAGUE BECAUSE AS A FANBASE WE SIMPLY WON'T ACKNOWLEDGE THIS FACT:
A man who destroys the most important piece of evidence in an investigation is either stupid, following his attorney's advice, or deciding on his own to destroy evidence that will prove him guilty. And none of us think Tom Brady is stupid, and none of us believe that an attorney would advise their client to do this if their client was innocent.
If we as a fanbase don't acknowledge this reality we will always be the laughingstock of the league. For us to get over the pain of this embarrassment we need to acknowledge this so we can move on and stop hurting. Otherwise we're always going to suffer every time we see an "asterisk" or get called cheaters for the rest of time.
Tom Brady may not be guilty of deflategate. But the cover up is worse than the crime.
Listen...Tom Brady may or may not have been guilty for anything directly to deflating the balls. We're all angry because we don't think that the NFL proved "beyond a reasonable doubt" that he's guilty.
But as a fanbase we are becoming a laughingstock because there's one thing that we're all refusing to acknowledge because of our faith in TB which everyone else outside of us simply can't look past, which is that Brady should never have destroyed his cell phone.
This process wasn't a criminal court proceeding where the burden of proof to prove deflategate is "beyond a reasonable doubt". The balance of probabilities is the threshhold, but when a defendant destroys evidence the burden of proof gets flipped and the defendant will always be forced into a position where he is forced to prove his innocence.
That was unforgivable as noted by the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals judges:
http://www.patsfans.com/new-england...sfans-com-patriots-fan-forum.10/create-thread
"[T]he Commissioner did not increase the punishment as a consequence of the destruction of the cell phone — the four-game suspension was not increased. Rather, the cell phone's destruction merely provided further support for the Commissioner's determination that Brady had failed to cooperate, and served as the basis for an adverse inference as to his participation in the scheme to deflate footballs."
Finally, any reasonable litigant would understand that the destruction of evidence, revealed just days before the start of the arbitration proceedings, would be an important issue. It is well established that the law permits a trier of fact to infer that a party who deliberately destroys relevant evidence the party had an obligation to produce did so in order to conceal damaging information from the adjudicator."
WE ARE BECOMING A LAUGHINGSTOCK AROUND THE LEAGUE BECAUSE AS A FANBASE WE SIMPLY WON'T ACKNOWLEDGE THIS FACT:
A man who destroys the most important piece of evidence in an investigation is either stupid, following his attorney's advice, or deciding on his own to destroy evidence that will prove him guilty. And none of us think Tom Brady is stupid, and none of us believe that an attorney would advise their client to do this if their client was innocent.
If we as a fanbase don't acknowledge this reality we will always be the laughingstock of the league. For us to get over the pain of this embarrassment we need to acknowledge this so we can move on and stop hurting. Otherwise we're always going to suffer every time we see an "asterisk" or get called cheaters for the rest of time.
Tom Brady may not be guilty of deflategate. But the cover up is worse than the crime.
