<font color=goldenrod>If Brady gets the harshest punishment, the punishments won't be much at all. He'll get a fine of some sort at most.

There is zero chance that Brady is getting a suspension. Especially not with the Pats being in the first game of the season in a nationally televised game.</font>

How much of a bonus does each player get for winning the Superbowl? He will probably get fined that.

I have no doubt he gets suspended

What a glorious day!

Either way, can't wait for the Colts to smash the Pats in the face this year.

No idea why the Colts were so low on those power rankings that came out. They obtained way more talent than they already had (R.I.P Wayne) and the Pats lost Revis. Hell, we are still below Denver. Can't wait to smash them in the face too.

lol there is a 0% chance that Tom Brady gets suspended

Let Andrew Luck fuck Gisele and call it even.

Probably generally aware? There's no way he gets suspended. You are fucking daft.

Pats have Luck's number. I doubt it.

Not this year. Colts got better and the Pats got worse. It's finally time for the Pats to take a backseat to another team.

<font color=goldenrod>Pretty clear Brady was aware what was going on, but he won't be suspended A) because he's a star player and B) because there is no hard evidence that he was involved.

Of course, the hard evidence they were looking for were Brady's texts, which he refused to give. Why refuse if there's nothing to hide? Doesn't matter though, Pats will scream bloody murder if they give anything more than a fine.</font>

<font color=goldenrod>Also, as Simmons would say...this will almost certainly put Belichick and the Pats into FU mode all next year.</font>

I'm sure there's a witty comment to be made on the correlation of Pats not having hard evidence and Aaron Hernandez' trial etc

<font color=goldenrod>Simmons was extremely confident in his pre-draft podcast last week, and I can't say I blame him. The Pats aren't perfect but who else in the AFC looks like a super serious threat?

Broncos lost one of their top weapons and are relying on Peyton's health to cooperate all year. Colts are pretty much a one-man team with a terrible GM who just happened to fall ass-backwards into the best QB prospect since Peyton. Ravens and Steelers are usually always decent but almost never have the "oh shit" factor where you absolutely dread facing them. The Bengals don't seem to realize that football extends beyond wild card weekend. The rest of the AFC East seemed to get better but each team individually has a lot of question marks still.

A lot can happen between now and September but for now I'd tend to agree with Simmons' assessment that the Pats still feel like the most formidable team. The FU mode soon to come only makes them seem more enticing.</font>

Avatar bet says Brady gets suspended.

Cowboys signed La'el Collins to a 3 year, $1.65 million deal.

Hasn't been completely cleared from the on-going murder case though. Him passing the polygraph test and paternity test results being negative were enough for NFL teams to go ahead for signing him.

Glad he got a spot on a team. Hate that he is with the HardyBoys.

The rules about undrafted players made it easier for the Cowboys to snag him. He only bothered to travel to Dallas since it was closer to where he lived while Bills and Dolphins could only send feelers to see if he'd be interested in traveling to their places. By the time they'd get a response, he already had a deal in place with the Cowboys.

<font color=goldenrod>So between signing Collins and getting Gregory late in the 2nd round, Cowboys pretty much got 3 first-round quality guys in the last week. I've heard Collins has gotten into it with his coaches at LSU and was occasionally ripped for being lazy...but it's worth a shot.

RB may be a huge question mark for Dallas but with that O-line it may not matter quite as much.</font>

It will matter when your RB is McFadden.

This feels weird. Its the first year I hated the Cowboys (For signing Hardy but ESPECIALLY for getting rid of Murray). Feels so wrong to hope the Eagles do well.

<font color=goldenrod>LT Tyron Smith
LG Zack Martin
C Travis Frederick
RG La'el Collins
RT Doug Free

79-year old Jim Brown could probably put up 1,000 yards behind that line. And that's coming from someone who loathes the Cowboys.</font>

Jesus. Dallas seems to be taking every chance that is out there to take with their signings this year. Still wish they'd have gone one more and taken Ajayi but I'm not nearly as down on the running game as most Cowboys fans seem to be. McFadden could have a bit of a rebirth on an offense with a great o-line and a passing threat to help him out. And even if he's just average, Joseph Randle looked great last year spelling Murray. Also, hopefully they can not fumble seemingly every game like Murray did, so there's that plus side.

Tom Brady 4 game suspension. That's my prediction.

CBS Sports is trying to suggest it'll be a year. If there is a punishment I'd say it'll be like fine in the 100k-250k range.

No bet though Goddell is way too much of a bipolar asshole to predict his whims.

As A Ravens fan I'd like to remind everyone that it was Harbaugh who tipped off the Colts about the deflated balls because they did it in the game vs the Ravens, which means they deflated balls in two games. It wasn't some sort of one off happening and for all anyone knows they could have been doing it at every home game, and I'm sure if somebody dug deeper they might find that out

I am sure if the NFL sent a probe on every team they would find every team cheated in some shape or form.

Besides the Colts of course because Luck won't tolerate any cheating.

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Hmmm?

4 games for Brady seems about right.

Also the Collins signing got me so pumped for the start of the season , Cowboys line is just plain filthy. Too bad we don't have a big pounding back to wear out the defense even more.

how does 4 games seem right... still blowing my mind that this is even remotely a thing at all

has the world collectively lost its damn mind

WELL THIS CHANGES THINGS...

I think so. Seen like 4 ESPN people want 4 to 6 games minimum. Seems crazy.

<font color=goldenrod>Supposedly Goodell is letting Troy Vincent be the one to publicly decide on the punishment, which makes it even more clear to me that it'll be a light one. Goodell is known to be super tight with Kraft, so a light punishment would draw accustations of favoritism.

So he'll just have Vincent be the one to make the "decision" even though it's probably coming from Goodell anyway.</font>

<font color=goldenrod>Also CBS Sports thinking Brady will be suspended for a year is hysterical. You can't even get suspended for a year for killing somebody.

Besides, Pats fans would be insufferable if they lost Brady for a year and didn't make the playoffs. It'd be 2008 all over again. "Nope, we didn't have Brady, doesn't count."</font>

<font color=goldenrod>Dante Fowler tears his ACL at rookie minicamp. Out for the season.

Jaguars will never not be cursed.</font>

Bounty gate got two coaches suspended for a year.

It'd be funny if it came down on Bellichick

Report made it clear its only Brady and the two ball guys who are getting any sort of punishment.

Everyone else got cleared in the investigation. If Goodell were to punish more people, he'd be doing it with less evidence than he has against Brady. Probably would also need to punish the Colts as well since they also had deflated balls.