Coach K coaches college kids, NE is a professional team. every NFL team is bending rules to try to gain an advantage, NE is just too dumb to keep getting caught. Lance Thomas was vital to that run and should have been ineligible.
How this guy can continue to deny responsibility, either through his agent releasing a statement or his father calling this a vendetta against him, is reprehensible. That's got to be taken into consideration when punishment is handed out.
Look, I hate Brady like most of the rest of you do. He's gone out of his way over the years to show disrespect for the Jets and he basically like Belichick despises this franchise. But the guy is a great player and Deflategate has no bearing on this. For the most part this manipulation of game ball pressure is standard although as usual NEP takes it to new low levels. They treat cheating like it's a legit part of a game plan. I'd like to see a little punishment here (and an apology from Kraft and Brady--not going to happen). A couple of draft picks and a one game suspension.
It has EVERYTHING to do with this. This is a thread feting Brady as the Greatest QB of All Time. Feel free to defend him in the other 4 Deflategate threads, but I'm sorry, you can't consider a guy who has systematically and intentionally manipulated the actual object of the game, the object that the game was NAMED after, and expect to call him the GOAT. _
Cheat riots have tarnished the whole game. Helped them win 2 playoffs and SB. Got to be comparable to black sox scandal from turn of last century. Historical decision needs to come from mr millions Goodell or else he goes down as being as evil as krafty shady and belli I don't see how he could escape the shitstorm he would receive in press if he goes easy here. He is a lucky dumbass who has raked in so much $$$$ so he should not care if Kraft stops giving him happy endings Brady is now in same league as Lance Armstrong and ARod. Can't see anyone defending his play or calling him great. He is fame slob who doesn't belong in hall next to Starr Namath Stabauch. Hope he loses all his endorsements over this. Maybe Giselle hits him with golf club next
Yes, he is still great. But it still knocks him down a few pegs on the GOAT list. I used to admit Peyton, Tom and Joe were neck and neck and refused to pick one over the other. I have had MANY conversations with with football fans of varying levels who have agreed 100% with that approach. A second asterisks beside Tom's name forever drops him into tier 2.
And manipulating game balls to grip, throw and hold on to them better is vital to helping Brady be a better QB when the laws of nature say he should be declining.
If they had admitted to deflating the balls they may have gotten a slap on the wrist, but instead put on a denial dog and pony show including a science lecture from Belicheat and they forced the NFL to get serious about it.
