#DFG: Canceling the Noise

[Saints Rest]

How much will it suck if they just accept it?

Do the Patriots have any recourse on their punishment?  I know Brady has appeal rights.

 

[Comfortably Lomb]

What a crock of shit. The NFL front office is a joke.

 

[soxhop411]

NFL where murder and wife beating cost you less then deflated ball.

I'm done

 

[bankshot1]

Fuck this
 
I hope they go to war.

 

[Silverdude2167]

How much will it suck if they just accept it?

No way they will accept anything since it still hasn't been proven that they didanything wrong.

 

[8slim]

Ha.
 
OK.

 

[Stitch01]

woooooow

 

[jtn46]

So apparently this is the worst thing a team has done since Bountygate, including when other teams messed with footballs. NFL is a jooooooke.

 

[Harry Hooper]

Mike Lynch citing the 4 game suspension for the GM texting. Not a player, Mike!

 

[The Tax Man]

This is my last year with season tickets. I'm done giving money to this league. 

 

[MillarTime]

As a reminder: 
 

 
5. As Mike Reiss of ESPN Boston pointed out Sunday, there have been two recent violations regarding fair play with footballs. One happened last November, when TV cameras at the Minnesota-Carolina game in frigid Minneapolis caught footballs being warmed up by sideline heaters. That’s a rules violation, but the teams were simply warned not to do it again. In 2012, the Chargers were found to be using towels with stickum on the sidelines, presumably for players to be able to grip the footballs better. The team was fined $25,000. Is the presumption that Brady was using footballs about 1 pound per square inch under the minimum limit worth a multigame suspension compared to the other two violations? The other two violations were proven. This one is “more probable than not,” according to the Wells report.
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[SIZE=11.5pt]6. Officials used two gauges at halftime of the AFC Championship Game to measure the air pressure in 11 New England footballs and four Indianapolis footballs. On page 113 of the Wells report, after a description of the scientific Ideal Gas Law (eyes glaze over), Wells says the Patriots footballs should have measured between 11.32 psi and 11.52 psi. The average of one gauge for the 11 balls was 11.49 psi, on the upper range of what the balls should measure. The average of the other gauge was 11.11 psi, clearly lower than what the balls should have measured. Average all 22 readings, and you get 11.30 … two-one-hundredths lower what the Ideal Gas Law would have allowed for balls that started the day at 12.5 psi. You’re going to suspend someone—never mind a franchise quarterback, never mind without a smoking gun—for an air-pressure  measurement of 11.30 when the allowable measurement would have been 11.32?[/SIZE]

 
I want full scorched earth including a Brady/NFLPA appeal, a Kraft public rebuke of Goodell, and cancelling of the banner raising Week 1.

 

[jsinger121]

 

[soxhop411]

 

[Ed Hillel]

So apparently this is the worst thing a team has done since Bountygate, including when other teams messed with footballs. NFL is a jooooooke.

 
Worse than that from a team perspective apparently.

 

[Jimbodandy]

Eh.  They lost a pick before.  Brady gets the suspension thrown out, and this is nothing but a speed bump.  A speed bump that's short a few chromosomes, but a speed bump nonetheless.

 

[soxhop411]

 

[jacklamabe65]

Sue sue sue.

 

[Myt1]

This isn't about taking the high road or fighting back. It has to do with public opinion and the reality is that outside of New England, Brady will never be vindicated. To non Patriot or Brady NFL fans, he cheated and nothing will change that "fact". Taking the unprecedented path of involving lawyers into a dispute with his "employer" isn't going to change anything and will only further stoke anti-Brady sentiment.

Taking the final punishment and moving on is the best way to put this thing to bed. Will it ever go away? Unfortunately, no but even ARod has won some fans back after taking his punishment and moving on.

No, it's about trying to win football games. but thanks. Also, "unprecedented" doesn't mean what you think it means.

 

[Average Reds]

@AdamSchefter: Filed to ESPN: Tom Brady suspended four games, Pats lose 1st round pick in 2016 and a 4th in 2017, and team fined $1 million, per source:

 
Good Christ.  I'm not a Pats fan and I'm livid.

 

[uncannymanny]

My coffee actually fell out of my hand Usual Suspects style realizing the thread name wasn't a joke. Absolutely insane.

 

[CaptainLaddie]

Hooooooooooooooooly fuck.

 

[bankshot1]

Lets just hope the 1st round pick is the 32nd
 
FUCK Goodell

 

[Terras]

Kraft is gonna run the bus right over Goodell's head.

 

[jimbobim]

This is so pathetic. 

 

[Lose Remerswaal]

Bull.

 

[Stitch01]

Brady suspension will get overturned, but that 1st is a kick in the nuts

 

[soxhop411]

@ErikFrenz: Four games for steroids. Four games for being generally aware of something that is more probable than not.

 

[Ferm Sheller]

Anyone have a complete list of NFL sponsors?

 

[Red(s)HawksFan]

Jerome Solomon @JeromeSolomon
Four games? Remember, his alleged transgression was so harmful that the league got wind of it and didn't even try to stop it. Pitiful.

 

[soxhop411]

Brady should have knocked out his wife. Would have gotten less games

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

Gets more than Ray Rice originally did. Sue the NFL. They seriously have no evidence on Brady.

 

[Myt1]

Getcha popcorn ready.

 

[ifmanis5]

I for one am happy that the integrity of the game has been taken very seriously by the league.

 

[PseuFighter]

I need a drink.

 

[Adrian's Dome]

Boycotting the NFL next year. No joke.

 

[MuppetAsteriskTalk]

Fuck you NFL

 
I'm done with the NFL unless Kraft goes scorched earth.

 

[DegenerateSoxFan]

Because maybe knowing about a possible minor equipment infraction is worse than punching out a woman. RIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT.
 
Unfucking real.

 

[jcd0805]

Ridiculous overreaction by an absolute boob.

 

[amfox1]

Do the Patriots have any recourse on their punishment?  I know Brady has appeal rights.

 
No.

 

[Silverdude2167]

This may be so crazy that everyone will be on the Pats side which will be nice for a change.

 

[LogansDad]

WOW.
 
A sentencing like this without any tangible proof.  
 
Just.... yup.  I'm done with the NFL once Brady retires.

 

[Mloaf71]

Goddell bet the Over on bovada

 

[OnWisc]

Anyone surprised that a Goodell-led organization handed down a decision like this probably also had their jaw drop whenever Allen Craig failed to get on base.

 

[swingin val]

This may be so crazy that everyone will be on the Pats side which will be nice for a change.

yea, no chance of that

 

[MarcSullivaFan]

Yeah, club punishment isn't changing. I will not be surprised if Goodell refuses to appoint a neutral.

 

[Harry Hooper]

Goodell is finished.

 
 
It's unlikely, but he can still hide behind Vincent making the decision, then meet with Brady and the Pats, and then issue a slightly revised downward penalty.

 

[dcmissle]

Absolutely knew that first rounder would be taken. Kraft can attempt to appeal based on point 5 above, but it's a real long shot.

 

[RIrooter09]

You backed the wrong fucking horse Bob.

 

[jsinger121]

 
No.

 
Kraft could sue the league if he wants. 

 

[ivanvamp]

I don't care about the money.  Kraft has that as pocket change.  Though it should be noted that it's 4,000% of what the rulebook calls for.  
 
The 4 games is an absolute joke.  The two draft picks?  You've got to be kidding me.  
 
Again, for the record, IT HASN'T EVEN BEEN ESTABLISHED THAT THE PATRIOTS DID ANYTHING WRONG!!!!!  It's innuendo based upon assumption, filled in with shoddy science and guesswork, and even the FRIGGING TED WELLS REPORT COMES TO A TENTATIVE CONCLUSION.
 
A first rounder in 2016 and a fourth rounder in 2017?  Roger is literally pulling this punishment out of his butt.