Brady's appeals petition denied; remains suspended

[YosemiteSam]

Patriots will probably just go 3-1 or 4-0 during the suspension and just laugh at everybody.

I would prefer 0-4 without Brady then a Brady concussion on the first Patriots offensive snap of game five AFTER throwing a pick-six.

 

[muck4doo]

 

[Nightman]

That's not really the important part. The important part is that the league has finally stood up to cheating and now has the authority to suspend players cheating as Brady's appeal has been shot down (Berman had no legal right to reject Goodell's ruling).

Maybe this will get the Patriots to think twice before cheating, again. However, this could have been done well before by suspending Belichick for 1 year, without pay and a $5 million fine along with taking away both 1st round picks and fining the Patriots $25 million after SpyGate. That would have probably done the job the first time.






YR

Berman was a fan boy that went all goo-goo eyes over Brady.....the law and the CBA are crystal clear...Tom and his pals were cheating red handed and then conspired to destroy and withhold the evidence.....if that was allowed to stand then the CBA would be worthless and every player would sue in Federal Court and refuse to cooperate in any way


Tom can pursue his case but the suspension needs to be served this year....there is not a compelling reason to grant an injunction.......worst case he gets back the salary (1m for the year) that he lost or around 250k...

 

[WPBCowboysFan]

That's not really the important part. The important part is that the league has finally stood up to cheating and now has the authority to suspend players cheating as Brady's appeal has been shot down (Berman had no legal right to reject Goodell's ruling).

Maybe this will get the Patriots to think twice before cheating, again. However, this could have been done well before by suspending Belichick for 1 year, without pay and a $5 million fine along with taking away both 1st round picks and fining the Patriots $25 million after SpyGate. That would have probably done the job the first time.






YR

The Patriots will think twice alright, about how to get away with more cheating. They got a Super Bowl appearance and win out of this. Any one of the other 31 teams in the league would gladly trade a 4 game suspension for their QB in exchange for a Lombardi. Only the Patriots and Tom Cry Brady would whine and fight the suspension

 

[rynochop]

I'll be really disappointed as an American if this makes it way to the Supreme Court.

Yeah, I'm disappointed it's clogged up the court system as far as it has. I hate to say I think a one or two game suspension for him is more justified and a more team punishment should be in order with their past. As in multiple draft picks taken away. This is more like a pitcher scuffing up a baseball, or a corked bat.

 

[Yakuza Rich]

The Patriots will think twice alright, about how to get away with more cheating. They got a Super Bowl appearance and win out of this. Any one of the other 31 teams in the league would gladly trade a 4 game suspension for their QB in exchange for a Lombardi. Only the Patriots and Tom Cry Brady would whine and fight the suspension

At least it sets an established precedent. Cheat again and the penalties are more severe.




YR

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

I'll be really disappointed as an American if this makes it way to the Supreme Court.

They should send someone to meet the judge on a plane... By chance.... Purely coincidental. No hint of harm, future foul play or future position in career.

Unprecedented.

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

That's not really the important part. The important part is that the league has finally stood up to cheating and now has the authority to suspend players cheating as Brady's appeal has been shot down (Berman had no legal right to reject Goodell's ruling).

Maybe this will get the Patriots to think twice before cheating, again. However, this could have been done well before by suspending Belichick for 1 year, without pay and a $5 million fine along with taking away both 1st round picks and fining the Patriots $25 million after SpyGate. That would have probably done the job the first time.







YR

It's really not that important and I will give you three reasons:

1. Brady won that super bowl
2. Brady restructured his contract so he won't lose not even close to what it would have been last year.
3. Pats go 3-1 or even 2-2 and they are still ahead.

Basically, Brady has already won 2 times.....

"Cause 2 outta 3 ain't bad"

A chance for a hat trick still.

 

[Nightman]

Cheating the new Pokemon game

 

[Longboysfan]

I hate that one of you benched Rogah right now .......

 

[Longboysfan]

Cheating the new Pokemon game

When asked what he was doing there....

Bellacheat said.. Ahhhh... I was there with my ahhh... Grandchildren....
Yeah. There around here somewhere....

 

[Nightman]

Brady finally relents and accepts his punishment....Checkmate

 

[Yakuza Rich]

It's really not that important and I will give you three reasons:

1. Brady won that super bowl
2. Brady restructured his contract so he won't lose not even close to what it would have been last year.
3. Pats go 3-1 or even 2-2 and they are still ahead.

Basically, Brady has already won 2 times.....

"Cause 2 outta 3 ain't bad"

A chance for a hat trick still.

It's not about Brady cheating, it's about anybody in the organization. Although I don't believe that there needed to be precedent to severely punish the Patriots for SpyGate. Belichick is a coach and the coaches do not have a union. That's why I don't feel for Goodell in this case...he did it to himself by covering up SpyGate.

But now it has to make the Patriots think twice about cheating again because Goodell has precedent of showing publicly that he believes that the Patriots cheated. We didn't have that after SpyGate.

Of course, the counter is to that is often times when a big scandal breaks...the LAST thing an organization like the NFL wants is another scandal and will ignore those cheating/breaking the law, etc. But, at least there is some punishment. And in the end, as a person who thinks that Goodell is a terrible commissioner...it will now set a precedent for teams seeing how incompetent the guy is and he no longer has Kraft's support.





YR

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

Brady finally relents and accepts his punishment....Checkmate

More accurate...


"It has been a challenging 18 months and I have made it difficult.... I forgot to mention a special shout out to "deflater"..."

 

[Yakuza Rich]

Can anybody explain why Patriots fanboys are all up in arms over the NFL allegedly leaking information on the case to ESPN?

I thought the idea of investigative journalism is to get information?






YR

 

[Nightman]

Can anybody explain why Patriots fanboys are all up in arms over the NFL allegedly leaking information on the case to ESPN?

I thought the idea of investigative journalism is to get information?






YR

Because they have nothing else....Brady was caught red-handed and the texts they saw corroborated the story....only in NE can the guilty party destroy key evidence and then stand up and say that "you don't have any direct evidence from Brady".....no one wanted to see any Gisele texts....just calls and texts to the "deflator"...you know the guy that got fired and never re-hired...

 

[Yakuza Rich]

Because they have nothing else....Brady was caught red-handed and the texts they saw corroborated the story....only in NE can the guilty party destroy key evidence and then stand up and say that "you don't have any direct evidence from Brady".....no one wanted to see any Gisele texts....just calls and texts to the "deflator"...you know the guy that got fired and never re-hired...

That's about what I figured.

Deflecting to find any peripheral nonsense to be incorrect or deem it unethical in order to discredit the NFL's case against Brady, but never actually arguing the evidence against him.





YR

 

[Nightman]

That's about what I figured.

Deflecting to find any peripheral nonsense to be incorrect or deem it unethical in order to discredit the NFL's case against Brady, but never actually arguing the evidence against him.





YR

Right...they locked in on Mort's quote that 11 balls were 2 pounds under......well it turned out not to be not quite that bad and the NFL never corrected Mort's report, but was it their job to do so?...it still didn't change the fact that most of the NE balls were overly deflated and the IND balls weren't, even according to the IGL