Don't forget Brady's smart-ass response to a then-legal (?) but now ILLEGAL formation vs. the Ravens in last year's playoff game. "They need to familiarize themselves with the rules" or something to that effect. Well, THE RULES say you take the balls from the official straight to the field of play. You don't detour into a bathroom, the food court, or a local McDonald's. So screw the Pats because they CLEARLY violated protocol so the penalty vs. the team is appropriate and I hope they nail Brady in a few months right in time for the playoffs.
BTW, I had dealings with Mike Kensil over the years and I can see why Patriot fans hate the guy. He is a p****. I never saw him smile in all the times I saw him. Sense of entitlement 2nd to none. If he didn't work for my team, the times I had to interact with him I might have punched him out. Guy was born with a silver spoon in his mouth because his father worked for the Jets and the NFL. So has he.
From this morning. Florio is one of the few national writers who has defended the Patriots and aggressively questioned the league’s handling of Deflategate. ESPN, meanwhile, has come under heavy criticism of late for appearing to pander to the league and slant its coverage against the Pats, including some questionable editing of ESPNBoston.com writer Mike Reiss. “I’m not going to say they’re handling it poorly, I think they’re handling exactly the way they want to,” Florio said of ESPN. “Whatever their agenda and objective is, they’re handling it well. And it’s a bad agenda, and it’s a strange objective. This Reiss thing was so stupid. If they had just let it go and not changed anything in his column, no one would have noticed it. They do the ‘tighter edit’ and take out two of seven bullet points and everybody pays attention, everybody notices it and it creates this big issue. And it just exposes the idea that there is some agenda there. “I don’t know what they’re doing. I don’t know why they’re doing it. I don’t know if they’re trying to get a cheaper rights fee the next time around from when we do the extension, the broadcast contract. But I’ll tell you this: The NFL is as upset with ESPN as the Patriots right now from this latest 10,000-word opus, because it slams the league office as much as it slams the Patriots. So I don’t know what the agenda is.” Florio suggested that the NFL leaks might be related to individuals in the league offices looking toward a future without Roger Goodell. “You just have to wonder what’s really going on behind the curtain,” Florio said. “And I know somebody who understands the dynamics of the league office [who] is convinced that there were league office sources who were feeding ESPN information with two agendas — to retaliate against the Patriots and to set Roger Goodell up for eventually being thrown out of office, because there are people who have their eyes on that job or eyes on the potential for advancing to a higher job under a different commissioner. That’s where this thing gets really bizarre. Is there a coup in the works? I don’t know. But a lot of nervous people at the league office, a lot of people putting potential plans into motion aimed at advancing their own interests or protecting themselves.”
Pats fans forget that until January ESPN was at the front of the line to ride the Pats collective dick. The latest "leak" directly says Roger covered up for the Pats shadiness for over a decade and yet they are calling him out like he is the devil. I just find it amazing how one thing has erased over a decade of both the league and ESPN holding up the Pats and their bullshit.
Yeah I'd agree with you. The media doesn't give a fuck about anything but clicks. Build them up and tear them down.
There's no doubt Goodell helped the Pats -- AND THE LEAGUE -- by minimizing Spygate. There was also this problem: if it was a fact or even BELIEVED TO BE FACT that the Patriots won any of their Super Bowls because of signals/cheating aside from Peter Carroll's stupidity, the damage to the league would be ENORMOUS, analagous to the 1919 BlackSox Scandal.
