Originally Posted by Vito Cruz (Post 4682792)

Originally Posted by ESPN

Former Dolphins offensive line coach Jim Turner, who was fired by the Dolphins after his actions were questioned in the first Wells report in February 2014, is filing a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida against Wells and his law firm, Paul Weiss of New York, seeking damages for defamation, according to an official familiar with the case.

Turner, who thinks his reputation and career have been unfairly affected, believes that Wells' report on the Dolphins negatively and perhaps permanently altered his ability to land another NFL coaching job ...

In the lawsuit, Turner alleges that the NFL commissioned Wells and Paul Weiss to write a report that would placate the public and assign blame to certain individuals such as Turner, while the law firm was well-paid and well-positioned for future work on NFL cases such as the one that turned out to be Deflategate.

Turner's attorney, Peter Ginsberg, believes that Wells and Weiss failed to include significant testimony from former and current Dolphins coaches and players in the report, opting instead to blame the events on, among others, Turner.

Ginsberg also believes that Turner was falsely accused of helping create an atmosphere that allowed bullying and harassment to happen and, even though Wells knew the accusations were not true, he included them in the report anyway, damaging Turner's reputation and inflicting emotional distress, pain and suffering.

Incognito told Newsday that Wells left out information that could have helped his case in the published report. Asked for specifics on what was left out of Wells' report in his case, Incognito said: "Teammate testimony, stuff like that."

Originally Posted by Smelly Meatball (Post 4685444)

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Eagles fans have started a <a href="http://t.co/nFpSBDmqET">http://t.co/nFpSBDmqET</a> petition asking for Pope Francis to bless the knees of Eagles quarterback Sam Bradford.</p>&mdash; Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) <a href="https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/631135663786721280">August 11, 2015</a></blockquote>
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:lol:

Originally Posted by ESPN

Judge Richard M. Berman in Manhattan repeatedly asked NFL lawyer Daniel L. Nash for "direct evidence that implicates Mr. Brady" as he gave both sides a chance to state their case in the first hearing before him.

Nash responded there was "considerable evidence Mr. Brady clearly knew about this,'' including records of text messages and phone calls between the quarterback and one of two Patriots employees implicated in the scandal known as "Deflategate.'' But he also said there was no "smoking gun'' showing Brady had direct knowledge that the balls were deflated for the first half of the Patriots' 45-7 defeat of the Indianapolis Colts in the Jan. 18 AFC championship.

Originally Posted by ESPN

"Turns out, Mr. Brady did better with higher inflated balls than underinflated balls. You might say he got no competitive advantage."

Originally Posted by road doggy dogg (Post 4691216)

I'd argue that Kelvin's was pretty major as well

Originally Posted by Vito Cruz (Post 4691435)

<font color=goldenrod>In the latest installment of "NFL does something stupid"...Cris Carter told rookies at last year's Rookie Syposium that players should always have a friend to act as their fall guy if they got into legal trouble.

.....and the league posted the video on their own website</font> :|

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...ve-a-fall-guy/