Dropkick Izzy said:
He's hoping to see his soul. Or some such horseshit.
Two NFL league officials walk into a bar and gauge the air pressure of a single football. They find it to be exactly what you would expect given environmental conditions and NFL regulations.SeanBerry said:Patriot fans have been so totally out in left field during this entire process. Many of you really believe nothing shady happened here. That the league has some double secret plan to bring the Pats.
soxhop411 said:so………
Hilarious. And true.Dirty Sanchez Forever said:McDonough was an axe grinder who would also occasionally defend Whitey Bulger in print. When he died they had to pry his frozen jaw off Parcells' hog with a crowbar.
They might but it isn't in the report. This says a lot more about the owners than it does this case.soxhop411 said:so………
Van Everyman said:They might but it isn't in the report. This says a lot more about the owners than it does this case.
Who do we think this is, BTW? Jones?
See you in courtlambeau said:Schefter this evening says his sources in NFL headquarters tell him that not only is there no deal on Brady, but a reduction from four games is unlikely.
lambeau said:Schefter this evening says his sources in NFL headquarters tell him that not only is there no deal on Brady, but a reduction from four games is unlikely.
No, he's not.Dirty Sanchez Forever said:He's forsaking the legacy of the greatest coach/quarterback combo in league history, as well as his own for some abstract bargaining chip to use down the road? That's unfathomable. He's going to get booed out his own stadium on opening night.
Dirty Sanchez Forever said:He's forsaking the legacy of the greatest coach/quarterback combo in league history, as well as his own for some abstract bargaining chip to use down the road? That's unfathomable. He's going to get booed out his own stadium on opening night.
No, he's quitting because he was either threatened with more sanctions if he didn't, or because he feared the owners would have gotten the 24 votes to kick him out had he sued. I'm still not convinced his odds in a court case were as low as some think here, but he would have fucked himself and his son from a league standpoint.Dirty Sanchez Forever said:He's forsaking the legacy of the greatest coach/quarterback combo in league history, as well as his own for some abstract bargaining chip to use down the road? That's unfathomable. He's going to get booed out his own stadium on opening night.
mwonow said:I don't have any problem reconciling the positions "this has been a great team to root for" and "Bob Kraft just punted his loyal supporters in the balls." I don't even have a problem reconciling the latter with "he didn't really have a palatable alternative." If he had to surrender, I certainly wish Kraft had been a little more defiant; the optics of this, as many have noted, are hard to reconcile with the belief (espoused by Kraft and thousands - millions? - of fans) that the Pats/Brady were not proven to be guilty of anything, and that the process and punishment were unfair.
What is the post-Spygate mistake?MuppetAsteriskTalk said:Kraft made his first mistake in the aftermath of Spygate, and has continued to stumble since then. His lack of support for other aggrieved owners and his continued support of Goodell in the aftermath of the Rice situation sealed his fate. He might have had limited options here, but that is in large part due to his past mistakes.
So yes, we have every right to be pissed off at Bob Kraft right now.
Maybe they didn't get railroaded. Maybe they cheated.ragnarok725 said:
I just really can't be happy with the outcome here, nor with an owner who doesn't put up a fight when his team gets railroaded.
Dirty Sanchez Forever said:Yes he is, and that's far more damning to the cult of personality that Robert has been crafting than anything the ginger menace can do.
twothousandone said:Maybe they didn't get railroaded. Maybe they cheated.
Even if they did, they still got railroaded. The leaks, the excessive punishment, the lies within the leaks, the silence; it was bullshit.twothousandone said:Maybe they didn't get railroaded. Maybe they cheated.