I know its fashionable to think that they are gone. It's also fashionable to think we will be fine without them.....and we might. But I still hold out hope for one major reason. We didn't do anything and we can prove it.
The fact is that over the course of the next 7 months, the facade of the Welles report, the Mort report, and the facade behind the "cell phone destruction". will become ever more plain. Not only that, the deliberate and malicious leaks and lies that were spread over the previous 8 months will also become more clear.
Ultimately Bob Kraft will be able to go before a league meeting IN PUBLIC and ask a simple question, "Why don't we have a first round pick this year>?" It is a question that Roger Goodell will have no good answer for. He can't say anyone tampered with the balls. He can't say there was a conspiracy. He can't say because Brady didn't cooperate. NONE of that is true, and most of the actual evidence points to a frame, NOT a crime.
So tell me guys what is Goodell going to tell the press when he's asked why the Pats don't have a first round draft pick. Remember that between now and Draft day even more information is likely to come out that is damaging to the League.
There is a possibly that the Court case will be finished. There are also the possibility of some very winnable defamation cases that are possible to come to light. Again, what can Goodell say. "We are going to be giving the Pats the largest draft penalty in NFL history because........we thought they did something, but we were wrong, but we still want to punish them anyway......because we are a group of very small petty jealous group of men who have a problem accepting defeat. Yeah, that sounds like it would work
BOTTOM LINE - It might look like the league can take those picks from us simply because Kraft "accepted" the penalty when he thought the facts were different. But 7 months from now it just might be THAT much tougher to get it past the more skeptical public.
Even the haters will have to give into reality by then. You can see them weakening already. Even now the only thing the haters on PFT can do is scream "cheater, cheater" like 3 year olds. They got nothing anymore. They are just there trolling Pats fans, and after they get trounced 150-2, their mother lets them out of the basement.
It might not look good now, but 7 months is a long time. Keep fighting the fight and don't give up hope.....unless you have a martire complex.
