Brady Suspension is On!

[JohnnyHopkins]

Offseason Fireworks Commence!

 

[JohnnyHopkins]

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/04/25/fede...radys-suspension-over-deflategate-ruling.html

A U.S. appeals court on Monday restored the four-game "Deflategate" suspension of New England Patriots star quarterback Tom Brady over allegations footballs were under inflated before an NFL playoff game last year.

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York reversed a federal judge's ruling from September. The appeals court ruled that in imposing the suspension, National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell properly exercised his discretion under a collective bargaining agreement

 

[Silver N Blue]

Nice now some can lay to rest any garrapolo trade.

 

[speedkilz88]

 

[Yakuza Rich]

One had to know this was coming.

Judge Berman had no legal authority/right to overturn the suspension. Only in a case where if the league had given Brady a suspension longer than 4-games could Berman have overturned the suspension length...but only down to 4 games per the CBA.

The CBA gives Goodell full authority to dole out the punishment as long as he is within the guidelines of the length of the suspension according to the CBA.

I found that Berman's ruling to be one of the most offensive parts of Deflate-Gate. How he could determine that he had the right to rebuke the entire suspension was beyond me.

I don't like Goodell as much as the next person, but the CBA clearly states that he has the authority to levy this 4-game suspension. Glad to see the appeals court had common sense on this one.






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[bark]

Just heard this. My question.... Is this really the last we hear of this?
Doubtful, but one can hope I suppose

 

[DallasCowboys2080]

wow. and so it continues.

 

[Miller]

Hate the Commish. This circus is on him as about every scientific group and genius out there said his report as flawed. The court followed the law about what the CBA allowed RG to do but it still doesn't make it right. RG is just a sorry, vindictive guy who I hope gets heckled beyond belief in Chicago.

 

[DallasCowboys2080]

 

[YosemiteSam]

BURN HIM!!!!

 

[Doomsday101]

Myself I am one of the few supporters of Goodell. I don't always agree with him but then he has a job no one is happy with and that is handing down punishment and when it is your player on your team people take it as it is personal against the team. Fact is the NFL has rules and it is on the players to follow them, when they fail to do so then don't blame Goodell the player has control over their own lives and they make the choices to do the things they do on and off the field. Goodell is the scapegoat since after all the rules put in place come from the NFL owners and it takes 2/3 of them to put rules in place. Frankly players have it easy things like the drug test it takes 4 times before you get suspended? that in and of itself is a joke.

 

[erod]

Hate the Commish. This circus is on him as about every scientific group and genius out there said his report as flawed. The court followed the law about what the CBA allowed RG to do but it still doesn't make it right. RG is just a sorry, vindictive guy who I hope gets heckled beyond belief in Chicago.

I really like Goodell. He takes the heat to keep the league relatively in tow. The owners can't help themselves, which is why they pay him $44 million a year to make them help themselves.

Now, I do hate his obsession with taking the game globally and a lot of the rules of today. But he's following the owners' wishes, which is to appeal to casual fans and video game enthusiasts.

 

[Doomsday101]

I really like Goodell. He takes the heat to keep the league relatively in tow. The owners can't help themselves, which is why they pay him $44 million a year to make them help themselves.

Now, I do hate his obsession with taking the game globally and a lot of the rules of today. But he's following the owners' wishes, which is to appeal to casual fans and video game enthusiasts.

exactly, he is point man but his orders are coming from a vast majority of the owners. NFL is not going overseas unless 2/3 of the owners want that to happen. Same with the rules, these are put in place at owners meetings Goodell does not sit there making up the rules he is the one they choose to enforce them.

 

[rynochop]

Just heard this. My question.... Is this really the last we hear of this?
Doubtful, but one can hope I suppose

I think so, I heard the U.S. Supreme Court won't touch this.

 

[JoeKing]

@ ARZ
MIA
HOU
BUF

Three home games (two divisional). I see them going 2-2 w/o Brady. I love it!.

 

[erod]

exactly, he is point man but his orders are coming from a vast majority of the owners. NFL is not going overseas unless 2/3 of the owners want that to happen. Same with the rules, these are put in place at owners meetings Goodell does not sit there making up the rules he is the one they choose to enforce them.

People need "the man" to point to for everything. It's a new American cultural phenomenon.

 

[zrinkill]

Poor Rogah.

 

[Longboysfan]

Brady suspension upheld.

I know it will be moved to the NFL zone eventually.

But for sure we will have at least one Brady apologist in here about this.

 

[remdak]

This is why Brady adjusted his contract to only receive $1 million in salary this year. He will only lose $250K. Most of his pay is signing bonus.

 

[Yakuza Rich]

Myself I am one of the few supporters of Goodell. I don't always agree with him but then he has a job no one is happy with and that is handing down punishment and when it is your player on your team people take it as it is personal against the team. Fact is the NFL has rules and it is on the players to follow them, when they fail to do so then don't blame Goodell the player has control over their own lives and they make the choices to do the things they do on and off the field. Goodell is the scapegoat since after all the rules put in place come from the NFL owners and it takes 2/3 of them to put rules in place. Frankly players have it easy things like the drug test it takes 4 times before you get suspended? that in and of itself is a joke.

Brady cheated. That's the basic point of all of this.

Even if we were to use the Ideal Gas Law defense, there were footballs that fell well below that projected range. And all it takes is for 1 ball to be tampered with in order to be considered cheating. Taking the PSI average for all of the footballs was just a way for Brady fanboys to manipulate the truth.

But the other point to all of this is that Goodell has nobody but himself to blame for all of this.

The Patriots cheated for six seasons under SpyGate and had unprecedented success for a team in the salary cap era. He could have suspended Belichick for an entire season without pay (at the very least) and gotten that suspension because there is no union for the coaches. He probably could have done a lot more to send a clear message:

Cheating will not be tolerated in the NFL. To the point where the ruling for being caught for cheating will be so penalizing that no organization and almost all players will think twice before cheating the league, again.

Goodell didn't do that. Instead, he helped cover up the issue. Remember, just before SpyGate was uncovered, the NBA was going thru their scandal with Tim Donaghy (although the FBI later stated that there was no evidence Donaghy fixed games, he just could predict outcomes based on what his fellow refs were saying to him prior to a game).

Donaghy didn't hurt the NBA's popularity and if the NFL had done the right thing SpyGate would not hurt the league's popularity either. Instead, he covered it up, gave the Patriots a slap on the wrist and told the owners, coaches and players that the Patriots didn't do anything that bad.

It reminds me a bit of the documentary The Seven Five about Michael Dowd, considered by many to be the most crooked NYPD officer in history. The 75th precinct was Dowd's district and they had cops doing crooked things. Eventually, the district adjacent to the 75th precinct (the 77th) was caught in a huge bust for breaking into drug deal houses and stealing money and drugs.

Instead of the message being sent to Dowd, it only further emboldened him to be even more crooked because he felt that the last thing the city wanted was another crooked cop bust. And Dowd was right.

Brady is Dowd. He saw that Goodell wanted nothing to do with busting the Patriots in SpyGate and found a new way to cheat (and let's throw Belichick in here as well, he only wrote the foreword for the little known book Football Physics which deal with how changing the properties of a football will change the aerodynamics). Brady cheated because he knew that Goodell wouldn't do anything.

But like Dowd, too much time had gone by and now the league were now willing to punish him for cheating.






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