BREAKING: TOM BRADY SUSPENDED!

[HammerDown]

That's not what yesterday's decision was based on.

Deflection. Totally and completely irrelevant to what the judges' statement of guilt.

 

[PolarVortex]

The number of Super Bowls that weren't achieved without cheating (to our knowledge) is getting lower and lower.

3 of the 49ers' 5 Super Bowls: Rice was cheating
All 4 of the Pats' SBs: Everyone was cheating
Seattle: lots of PED busts (and Sherman getting off on a technicality, although we know 100% he was cheating)
Ravens: Ngata on PEDs

...And so on.

Sherman will never serve suspension for PEDS. He's too damn smart. He could make $50 million a year consulting professional athletes on how to successfully cheat.

Moral to this story: If you aren't smart enough to get away with cheating, then you shouldn't try it.

 

[Caliskinsfan]

 

[cerealboi]

You're quoting yourself for support?

 

[HammerDown]

@cerealboi How would you describe the evidence that Tom Brady "knew about, consented to, encouraged" tampering with footballs and that his explanation of why he destroyed his cellphone was ridiculous?

 

[PolarVortex]

@Rock Strongo is Down still MIA? Is there a chance he offed himself?

Or he might be in prison for killing his wife.

 

[handicappers]

Did you?

Did you ?

 

[Old Lion]

Deflection. Totally and completely irrelevant to what the judges' statement of guilt.

What evidence did he base his opinion on? All the physicists are pretty much in agreement that the balls will deflate that much in the course of time and temp change.

 

[HammerDown]

You're quoting yourself for support?

No, I'm posting my tweets.

Answer the question.

 

[HammerDown]

What evidence did he base his opinion on? All the physicists are pretty much in agreement that the balls will deflate that much in the course of time and temp change.

I'm not even going to respond to that at this point.

Get yourself informed then come back and let's discuss this.

 

[PatsFan2003]

The dissenting Judges opinion, who is also the head judge of that court.

Dissenting Judge ‘Troubled’ Roger Goodell Upheld Tom Brady’s Suspension

For these reasons, I respectfully dissent.” Here is how Katzmann concluded his dissent: “I end where I began. The Article 46 appeals process is designed to provide a check against the Commissioner’s otherwise unfettered authority to impose discipline for ‘conduct detrimental.’ But the Commissioner’s murky explanation of Brady’s discipline undercuts the protections for which the NFLPA bargained on Brady’s, and others’, behalf. It is ironic that a process designed to ensure fairness to all players has been used unfairly against one player. “I respectfully dissent.”

i.e. He agrees with Berman.

I think the NFL got what they wanted, which was another set of judges that might lean towards their view.

That is Tom Brady's glimmer of hope but I think it's a small one. One, that he'll get a hearing at all and Two, that a majority of judges in that court think like Katzmann. I would think not.

 

[redseat]

I get that, but what was on those tapes that the league didn't want anyone to see? Seems incredibly fishy they would destroy evidence so quickly. Leads me to believe that there was more to it like Marshall Faulk says there was. Anyway, the point was that no Pats fans ever demanded to see those tapes (to my knowledge), but now they suddenly want the PSI readings to be super transparent. Seems like a double standard is all.

I'd lvoe to see them myself... But we aren't going to get those nor the PSI... Yet the league said we would... That's all I am getting at... It is fishy on both side.

But again, the PLAYERS are to blame for giving Goodell all that power

 

[HammerDown]

Wow. The Boston Globe pretty much eviscerated the Patriots.

"Monday’s ruling by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals was a loud smackdown of Fanboy Judge Richard Berman’s ruling!"

 

[dkmightyhammer]

Sherman will never serve suspension for PEDS. He's too damn smart. He could make $50 million a year consulting professional athletes on how to successfully cheat.

Moral to this story: If you aren't smart enough to get away with cheating, then you shouldn't try it.

Plus, Sherman was never busted for PEDs. He was being investigated for a "banned substance" which everyone always assumes is performance enhancing drugs. It was widely speculated that the substance was Adderall which isn't a PED but is banned. None the less, the NFL screwed up the test and Sherman was within his rights to have it thrown out. He's never tested positive before, or since that incident either.

 

[Winged_Wheel88]

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

Brady = Shady
Berman = Vermin

 

[HammerDown]

Now that Brady is exposed, will he ever be welcomed back to Ann Arbor?

 

[redseat]

Now that Brady is exposed, will he ever be welcomed back to Ann Arbor?

Bigger question: is he finally able to get out of your basement?

 

[DirtDirtDirt]

Got to love Pats fans feverishly searching the internet and pasting articles that support their narrative

While ignoring all the pieces that dont

Typical Bradys'*

 

[Broncos6482]

That's a pretty good article, however there is one thing I disagree with with.

It is not the reason the Patriots win. In all likelihood, it gave them virtually no competitive advantage. The Patriots win because they are better than you are. They are better prepared. They are smarter. They beat you fair and square.

But that is not enough for the Patriots. They are like the Nixon White House in 1972. They do not have to break into Democratic National Committee headquarters and engage in dirty tricks in order to beat George McGovern in the general election. But they did it anyway.

This is the Patriots. They leave no stone unturned. They go the extra mile. That’s what Spygate was about. That’s what this is about.

I don't buy that for a second. The Patriots are too smart to waste energy and resources on something they don't think helps them. If they're bothering to do it, it's because they believe it gives them an edge.