Joe Posnanski on Tom Brady
http://sportsworld.nbcsports.com/tom-brady-is-innocent/
The gist of the articles is what most here believe - Tom Brady didn't intend to break the rules, didn't instruct anyone to break the rules, and likely didn't actually break the rules. All arguments made before, but in the inimitable Poz style.
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Injustice.
This wasn't about Brady being innocent or not. Goddell decided to make Brady pay for the past sins of the Pats. People with tiny dicks tend to overact. Believe me 4 games was overacting.
Goodell has the right to be an asshole thanks to the league's CBA, but is there a chance Brady can hold him to a higher burden of proof in civil court? I would love to see him sue Goodell and the NFL for damage to his brand, etc.
I think he should start at $200 million.
But how does a guy know Roger Gooddell has a tiny dick?
He doesn't, but accusing another man of having a small penis is a common ad hominem attack used to diminish the standing of someone holding a view opposed to the one you wish to defend.
It wasn't about diminishing anything. It's about the punishment fitting the "crime." One or two games would have made his point. Four games was about Brady bucking up against The Shield and not handing over his phone. I don't know how big Rog's dick is and I don't care to know but his actions make him look like he has a small dick.
So are we to assume that any man in Goodell's position with a very large dick would have only given Brady a 1 or 2 game suspension?
This is confusing because I wouldn't have given Brady a suspension at all, and I've got some bad news for the ladies out there.
So having a small dick isn't a complement?
I thought it was like, "Yeah well anyone can please a woman with a man's dick, but to please a women with 2 inches, that takes a real man".
Sort of like a 5' 5" basketball player needs that much more game.
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Goddell is a dickless dick.
But will probably conclude that life is too short.
The main problems with this whole situation are that there's a precedent for a completely different punishment (I believe it's a fine), there doesn't seem to be any proof of anything, and it doesn't even seem like the deflated balls caused any real advantage. I really don't understand why the NFL went after this so hard. I hope I can stop hearing about it soon.
Professional jealousy. 31 other billionaire, cunt owners hate all of the success the Pats have had over the past 15 years. They will do anything to try and take them down a peg.
Spygate was a violation of where the camera were placed. There was no rule against filming signals. Hell, you can get a lot of those off the TV broadcast. The other 31 made sure the NFL made a huge deal about this violation so they could work the public into a frenzy and then Roger could fuck the Pats over by taking draft picks away.
You mean the NFL didn't just it's place in line, like the rest of the world, to get in on the Evil Conspiracy against Michigan???
You keep saying stuff like that and this blog will lose its reason to live!
admitted they screwed up with Spygate. What I'm pointing out is the fact that most people don't even know the actual rule that was broken. Everyone thought it was illegal to film signals and went nuts. There was never a rule against taping signals until after the 2006 season. Spygate was a one game violation against the Jets. Here's the rule that came into play in 2007:
No video recording devices of any kind are permitted to be in use in the coaches' booth, on the field, or in the locker room during the game. All video shooting locations must be enclosed on all sides with a roof overhead. Any use by any club at any time, from the start to the finish of any game in which such club is a participant, of any communications or information-gathering equipment, other than Polaroid-type cameras or field telephones, shall be prohibited, including without limitation videotape machines, telephone tapping, or bugging devices, or any other form of electronic devices that might aid a team during the playing of a game.
Belichick thought it meant you could not utilize anything to assist you during that game. They proceeded to go undefeated that year until they lost in the Super Bowl. Spygate was media/fan hysteria and little else.
take a look at how the Rams ended up in LA and try and tell me the owners do not collude for personal and professional gain.
it was all a lie. Pretty common theme with this.
They made sure to hide all the psi data from everyone, including the officials.
As big of a douche-barrel as Goodell is, he is still a massively overpaid puppet of the owners. They pay Goodell to be their fall guy while he does their bidding. Most of these owners (not all) are petty, ruthless, and greedy people who apparently hold grudges for a very long time.
They were about how the refs overinflated the footballs against the Jets in week 7 that season.
What did the equipment guys say about the inflation? "They are supposed to be at 13." Right in the legal range of psi. What a grand scheme the Pats had going! Legally inflating footballs to the proper psi. THINK OF THE CHILDREN!
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That is not the case here. This is a case of poorly negotiated CBA and the NFL wanting to enforce it. Brady likely said hay the balls are too hard the ball dude said ok. This was the end of his involvment. But it doesn't matter, law has long since went from doing the right thing to doing the correct steps with no mistakes.
But I'm still surprised the court approved of his random punishment. Like another poster above said, there are rules stated about altering equipment or something along those lines, and it's a fine. Goodell went above and beyond to punish Brady outside of the collectively bargained scale of punishment. If you're going to say "Goodell can do whatever, it's in the CBA!" then you should also say "But he can only punish up to 'X', it's in the CBA!"
Whole thing is a complete debacle.
Finally (and totally unrelated to your post, but I'm on a roll), let's say the Pats equipment team did deflate balls (never proven), and they did deflate to less than league minimums (never proven), why is this on Tom Brady? Isn't that an organizational issue? Why single out a player without any proof of wrongdoing? There was never any instruction proven or admitted by anyone involved. The closest you have is Brady's destroyed phone which is remotely relevant at absolute best, and indirect comments about Brady signing jerseys.
Isn't it harder to throw a deflated football than a fully inflated ball? Think of extremes. A deflated ball is much harder to throw. But a deflated ball is much EASIER to hold on to. There is even data to back up that the Patriots fumble at an extremely LOW rate.
Why wasn't LeGarrett Blount and the running backs questioned about this? Did anyone ever approach them? Or check their phones? Couldn't Tom Brady have been indirectly signing jerseys for "The Deflator" at the request of the New England running backs?
None of it makes sense. For whatever reason, Goodell wanted Brady suspended. The reason didn't really matter.
went outside the standard rules of arbitration. Yes, a CBA can give him insane amounts of power. However, it can never give an arbitrator the authority to change the grounds for punisment after the arbitration hearing. That is exactly what Goodell did.
Judge Berman and Chief Judge Katzmann recognized the terrible precedent this sets for future arbitration. I have no idea how the rest were so blind.
As I said previously, bet everything on the Pats game 5 against Cleveland and start Brady in your fantasy league, going to be ugly. Brady is always looking for a new edge, something to motivate him to a higher level. The chance to give pindick Goodell the ultimate FU at the Super Bowl is a powerful incentive for Brady and the team. If healthy, Pats are loaded this year. Secretly I'm guessing the BB is happy that the league gave him a rally the troops, us against them, rallying cry for the season.
That's what folks thought would happen against the Colts last season and the game turned out to be a garden variety ass kicking. If anything, Bill B will be uber motivated to win with QB2 rather than TB12.
Almost no one has defended Goodell or the NFL on this. Talk about echo chambers, just look at this thread. Everyone here is on Brady's side on this one. It takes a lot of gall to say what everyone else is saying and then act like you're hopelessly outnumbered.
Yes seriously. Mgoblog is going to be slanted for obvious reasons, but its about the ONLY place I've consistently read that doesn't paint Brady and Belichick as Snidely Whiplash and Boris Badenov or WORSE. Most people don't seem to care all that much, basically accepting that everyone cheats; the Pats are just the best at it, making them the villains of the NFL. Goodell however doesn't want villains in his league. He wants the NFL painted as pure and righteous Americana and bad guys being as successful as the Patriots have been, he can't abide.
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I can't read Posnanski anymore. I lost all respect for him after the way he shilled for Joe Paterno to protect the sales of his book.
After the his behavior during the Paterno scandal, Poz is dead to me. I'll take a writer with less style, but one that doesn't excuse kiddie rape to make a few extra bucks.
I feel conflicted about the Paterno book. I read it, and early on was hoping Pos wasn't going to pull his punches. Make it an important book, instead of a Father's Day gift that is forgotten two years later.
But it wasn't. It read exactly like you would think -- as if Pos was 80% finished with the initial draft, then had to figure out how to rewrite a few things to reflect the controversy without taking a strong position on it. I like Pos a lot, so maybe I'm just giving him too much credit, but part of me wants to believe that he had a contract, a deadline, and some instructions from the publisher/editor on what they expected the finished product to look like. Maybe he'd already spent the advance and couldn't repay it. I'd like to think that he simply chose poorly when faced with a tough decision. But I don't know. The more time that passes, and the more we know about Paterno, the worse that decision looks.
My body lost several psi while reading this thread.