sully00 wrote:I know the next step is supposed to be appeal but I think it will be a defamation law suit and injunction. The problem for the league is that they have to be suspending Brady for tampering with the footballs at the AFC Championship game. They have to be able to prove the balls were tampered with. What the report says is that we have believe Walt Anderson's recollection when it comes to checking the pressure prior to the game but ignore his recollection when it comes to the device he used to do so. No judge is going to care about the argument that "we knew they were doing it and only caught them this time" if they don't have real evidence that they caught them.
If they have the evidence then they should have wrote a better report because no judge is going to care that Brady didn't cooperate with a which hunt. They could have done whatever they wanted to the team and Kraft would have eaten it but now it is bigger than that and Brady has a lot more options at his disposal to defend himself and little reason not to do so.
I'd make a sig bet and throw $100 hypothetical dollars Brady gets nowhere with a defamation. Sincerely not trying to troll, but I'm taken aback a bit by how much people here discredit the report. Not that it matters, but with some Boston roots, I'd definitely lean toward favoring the pats.
Interestingly, my original take as indicated in the OP:
Four game suspension seems like a minimum, and given NE's reluctance to allow the follow-up interview with one of the co-conspirators and unwillingness with Brady's electronic devices, it would seem appropriate for them to be penalized in some fashion (particularly given their relatively recent past misgivings).
Seems pretty spot on.
