Delphic1
Active Member
That's really not true. Kraft probably decided that the effort to prove his innocence was probably too costly in a lot of ways, financial, reputation and his relationships with other owners. He didn't want to pull an Al Davis. There's also the ignorance is no excuse penalty which is sort of a catch-all infraction. I think he was laying down the olive branch with the hope the NFL would respond in kind.
We don't know that either. I am leaning more towards guilty therefore accepting the punishment, rather than accept the punishment to prevent this from boiling over (take one for the team). Either way, this assumes guilt for the Patriots to some extent.