DeflateGate is so ridiculous. Like so so ridiculous. How in the world is this an issue

Vick got suspended a over a year for fighting dogs
Rice got supended for hitting a woman
Peterson suspended for disciplining his child
And Hernandez hasn't played since he actually killed some one

I don't think Brady should get a year but at most 3 games. He had to be involved in the deflating and tje NFL has to take some kind of action. This is kind like corking your bat in baseball.

1st round pick, tears his ACL in practice. Un-freaking-believable.

<font color=goldenrod>I'd be fine with 3-4 games. I haven't seen a compelling argument to not suspend Brady. I think any rational person would agree that deflating the footballs probably didn't do much in the long run and that it's certainly not the reason the Pats smashed the Colts and are good year in and year out. But you can't just let guys fuck around with the equipment. Doesn't matter who it is. If you let someone break the rules and not punish them, why have rules?

The most common arguments against a suspension I've heard coming out of Boston are "but lots of teams cheat!" or "there was no hard evidence!" Brady/the Pats were dumb enough to get caught (again). As for the hard evidence, I still think if Brady really had nothing to do with it he'd have given up his texts to the investigation in about 5 seconds and wouldn't need his agent to fight his battles for him.

More and more places are saying Brady's definitely getting suspended but I won't believe it until I see it.</font>

OH NO! JAGUARS SUCK AGAIN!

Overall number one pick of 2016 seems like a shoe in.

At least our QB isn't going to be suspended for cheating. ;)

NFL.com breaking news: "Jaguars QB Blake Bortles suspended for the entire 2015 season for cheating."

Ermaximus: "OH, COME ON!"

2015 draft is cursed not just for ermax, but for me, too.

Broncos 3rd round pick Jeff Heuerman tears his ACL during mini camp. Done for the season.

At board games maybe.

Pats released CB Kyle Arrington (cap reasons) and signed TE Fred Davis.


Meanwhile a US Senator is upset at a sponsorship deal the league has with the military. More upset that it was discovered the National Guard has to pay teams for advertising than NFL teams doing it for free.
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/12...deal-nfl-teams

<font color=goldenrod>In other Jaguars draft bust news...Justin Blackmon was denied reinstatement from his indefinite suspension, so it's looking like he'll miss a second straight year. His career is probably over.</font>

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap300..._atn_rosenthal


Four games in the sting job

Lol such horseshit

Goodell is so full of shit. Should have already been fired cause of the Ray Rice fiasco. He's got no leg to stand on pulling this. If this suspension holds his first game will be against the Colts. Prepare to die Indianapolis. You're in for the biggest asskicking of a lifetime.

<font color=goldenrod>Tom Brady 4 game suspension
Pats fined $1 million a docked their 2016 1st rounder and 2017 4th rounder</font>

<font color=goldenrod>It's basically a 3 game suspension as the Jags will struggle to win a single game this year.

As a Giants fan it does suck that he'll miss the Dallas game</font> :mad:

Not a Pats fan, but come on, this is complete bullshit. #firegoodell

This is so absurd.

Questions Tom Brady's integrity and gives license for retards to belittle his accomplishments. Not a Pats fan at all. In fact, I outright don't like them. But Tom Brady is a once in a lifetime player. Just feel bad for him.

So ridiculous.

I guess punching your wife in the face is worse than putting air out of a ball allegedly? #FireGoodell

The Colts should be ashamed of themselves, honestly. Putting on such a piss poor performance and then essentially publically lynching Tom Brady out of frustration. Jim Irsay has always been garbage. Helping to change NFL rules so that it benefits his team, throwing a fit and finding excuses when they lose...

Ugh. Such a circus.

<font color=goldenrod>As I said, I do think a suspension had to happen (but didn't think it would) because there's more than enough out there to show he knowingly broke the rules. Whether or not said ball altering (lol) led to a better performance is irrelevant.

But 4 games is excessive. 2 games would have been fine. Hell, even 1 game. Having to miss the game where the banner is lowered and you're meant to celebrate the Super Bowl one last time would have been punishment enough for a guy like Brady.</font>

A suspension absolutely did not have to happen at all. All they have is circumstantial evidence. There is no hard evidence to support their claim whatsoever. The NFL had a video of Ray Rice beating the living bejesus out of his wife and gave him 2 games. (And yes, they had the tape. If they can say that Brady absolutely tampered then they absolutely had the tape. )

There needs to be some sort of written parameters for the length of suspensions. Their priorities are seriously so fucking mind boggling that it is comical.

Don't get how the Pats get that harsh of a punishment when the report itself cleared them from Deflategate.

Brady getting punished was going to happen once it was found he wasn't supply the evidence the NFL wanted but even 4 games seems a bit harsh for something that was only "probable" on his part.

Colts getting nothing for having their own balls deflated also seems dumb. Bunch of teams ended up getting busted or in trouble for deflating balls last season and nothing happened to them.

this is making me so furious

i cannot stand the nfl

Just read up some more and the basis for both punishments ended up being because Spygate was invoked during the punishment discussions.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Troy Vincent cited Patriots' involvement in '07 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/spygate?src=hash">#spygate</a> as factor in punishment. &quot;This prior violation of competitive rules&quot; was considered</p>&mdash; Bob Glauber (@BobGlauber) <a href="https://twitter.com/BobGlauber/status/597882556013412353">May 11, 2015</a></blockquote>
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So did Tom Brady set up the video cameras as well?

oh jesus christ

<font color=goldenrod>Brady's failure to cooperate with the investigation also raised a huge red flag for the league. Again, if there was zero dirt on him he'd have done what was asked and cleared his name in 2 seconds. 4 games is still too much, thoug.

Don't understand the draft pick docking at all.</font>

Fucking hate the Colts. The Seahawks would have absolutely shitstomped them had they advanced.

One of the conditions to the punishment agreements was for the Pats to not appeal while Brady will since he wasn't involved in those talks.

The problem is "dirt" does not constitute a 4 game suspension. Dirt isn't grounds for anything. Absolute undeniable evidence is what should get somebody suspended.

lolSTD

Unless you believe there's a big conspiracy behind it all, I think it's pretty safe to say Brady knew what was going on and even had a hand in it. Not sure why everyone is so appalled. Taking out the Ray Rice comparison of course. Just looking at this situation on its own, I can't see how this is so shocking.

He is still fucking daft. He is of the same mind set as Roger Goodell.

I don't know. He called the suspension and the exact amount of games while you dick-ishly called him daft and said there was "no way". Seems like you were the daft one in the end. Just sayin'.

<font color=goldenrod>There is pretty strong evidence in the Wells Report based on the numerous texts collected from the staffers. The same staffers who almost certainly knew they would be losing their jobs by turning the texts in.

Brady was not the one shooting the balls but it seems clear he was telling them what to do and going along with it. Would not surprise me in the least if the hard evidence was the shit Brady refused to hand over. He immediately called one of the staffers right after the story surfaced. He knew they were busted.</font>

<font color=goldenrod>Also the Pats will definitely appeal and they MIGHT manager to get the punishments lessened to a degree, but not totally dropped.

The CBA is written in such a way that the commissioner basically has unilateral control to do whatever he wants. It will be incredibly difficult to get everything dropped. The only reason Rice's indefinite suspension was dropped was because they had already slapped him with the retardedly small 2 game suspension and they tried to basically undo it and re-suspend him for a longer period of time.</font>

Thought 3 games would be fair but four works. Comparing this to the Rice suspension doesn't make any since. Rice had a problem off the field and Brady cheated in a game he didn't need to. The NFL has had a bad rep the last couple of years but I think they got this one right. They couldnt let Brady off after screwing with the integrity of the game, so the made an example out off him.