ifmanis5 said:
Even if he did destroy his phone, still just a fine like the fine and upstanding gentleman Favre, right?
People are struggling with a concept that seems odd but really isn't.
The record here was essentially completed weeks ago after the hearing before RG and the post hearing written submissions. The only outstanding item is the decision we await.
That pretty much is all that matters going forward. The court is not going to order TB deposed. It is not going to ask for his phone. In fact the NFL is exceedingly unlikely to even ask for these things.
The penalties will rise or fall based on this record and the applicable legal principles. The cake is baked.
Which means that TB is quite free to destroy his cell phone or anything else -- unless the NFL specifically asked him to preserve it. Had such a request been made, we almost certainly would know about it.
Further, if in fact the cell phone had been destroyed in the face of a request by the NFL before the Wells Report issued, that report would have cited him for despoliation of evidence and made a BFD about it. That obviously did not happen.