The PDF of the judge’s ruling is available on ESPN.
IIRC, it doesn’t necessarily say that Brady had zero knowledge, but rather that the punishment didn’t fit the crime and that there was no evidence to link him to the ball boys.
Basically, the NFL said, “Brady was trying to get an unfair advantage, so we’re going to punish him the same way we would punish a PED user.” The judge said, “Deflated balls are not even remotely the same as using PED’s. A better precedent would be the Brett Favre punishment. He didn’t cooperate with an investigation and he didn’t get suspended.”
Is that asterisk your salty tears? Lmfao at that entire post of mad. Even Seahawks fans were screaming about the Patriots cheating when their org was filled with guys busted for PEDs. Sherman got off on a technicality, but he’s not tainted? Give me a break. People are going to be up in arms on a difference of what… 0.2 PSI on a few balls?
You’re probably someone who thinks Spygate was taping the Rams walkthrough practice before the Super Bowl and not just a guy filming defensive signals from the wrong position on the field and is still going by what Mortensen’s original report said. Significantly under-inflated… hilarious.
Of course Brady likes his balls a certain way. Of course he had some hand in telling the ball boys to put them at a certain level on the low end of the allowable limit. We’re talking about tampering with balls in a way that was IGNORED BY THE LEAGUE in a game in the very same season when both the Vikings and Panthers were caught heating them on the sidelines. Meanwhile Brady is some villainous cheat and deserves the same smackdown as a guy who is injecting HGH in his ass?
don’t forget there was a 1/1,000,000,000 play just before it in the Seahawks’ favor. and another miracle catch from XLII (Tyree catch) that only counted because the refs missed a blatant facemask at the line. so i think it all evened out. “ifs” and “buts” are meaningless.
Yep. Asante Samuel dropped the easiest interception on a play previous to the Tyree catch. Welker’s drop in the second Giants SB. This is how sports work…
Patriot fans should be sending us Chiefs fans some love. If it wasn’t for the Chiefs kicking the shit out of the Patriots on Monday Night in week 4, you guys may never had righted the ship.
Give me four tainted rings and an ocean of rival fan salt over what anyone else has any day of the week.
The same report states that their systems didn’t even work or matter and that owners are just paranoid and were driven by jealousy to see the hammer fall on Brady. But of course those headlines aren’t picked out of the OTL piece.
It’s a classic NFL/ESPN move to drop this today. Literally re-hash stuff all well known since 2008, bring up the same cast of sour grapes characters and then not name anyone behind these supposedly new allegations. Great reporting.
Well I was born in 1985 and didn’t really start getting into sports until around '93-'94… soo yeah. What happened in the 70’s obviously matters but I wasn’t around to see it. Give me four titles that I got to watch start to finish.
The Steelers literally did not cover Robert Gronkowski on two separate occasions in last night’s game. How… how does that even happen? Anyway 1-0 and on to Buffalo!