#DFG: Canceling the Noise
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Steph Stradley, our fearless heroine, on ProFootballCentral.com podcast:
http://www.profootballcentral.com/2015/09/03/latest-patriots-central-radio-21/
http://www.profootballcentral.com/2015/09/03/latest-patriots-central-radio-21/
ifmanis5 said:
That goes along with the meme that Kraft demanded an apology for his team merely being investigated.
Steve Serby is a joke and so is the Post: http://nypost.com/2015/09/03/lying-tom-brady-proves-that-cheaters-do-win/
That's a common theme I've seen today. The Pats got off an a technicality but they were up to something, only Goodell is too terrible at his job to catch them. Pathetic, sore loser logic. I'll expect Francesa and many others to take the same angle.
That's a common theme I've seen today. The Pats got off an a technicality but they were up to something, only Goodell is too terrible at his job to catch them. Pathetic, sore loser logic. I'll expect Francesa and many others to take the same angle.
MonstahsInLeft said:
Or it could be something that 5-6 of the thousands (millions?) of Foxboro-area Pats fans set up themselves: put a ball outside at kickoff time with a thermometer and a pressure gauge and a web cam, feed into a website with a mobile-friendly interface, replace the balls at the start of the second half. I'm guessing that would get enough coverage to make an impact - maybe enough to shame the NFL into posting real numbers as a type of rebuttal.
The whole thing could probably be set up by someone who knew what they were doing for a grand or so. I'm not local to Foxboro nor do I know much about setting this kind of thing up, but I'm in for a C-note if anyone can find a project lead...
You could out out Goodell on a 747 piloted by a blindfolded seven year old with a rabid bear serving as flight attendant, and the kid and the bear would be fighting it out for second and third most unqualified for their job.reggiecleveland said:
This has been posited before, but:
Many are wondering if this is the "last straw" for Godell. How he's bad for the league, etc. I think this whole fiasco has made the League tens of millions of dollars next year. Every week is going to be a referendum on the Patriots, and Brady specifically. If you are a Pats fan, you are of course watching every game this season with a thirst for the NFL's blood in your mouth. We want "revenge"...further success in face of hater doubt. At least I do.
If you are a hater, or even just a casual fan, the opposite will be true. "Tune in this week to see if the evil Cheatriots lose!" Brady's performance will be picked apart like never before. HOWZ HE DOING WITH DA REGLR BALLZ. If he's great, or even very good, his status in the pantheon of quarterbacks will rise even further, due to everything he's had to deal with during this off-season. Pro-Brady guys like Steve Young, Trent Dilfer, and Skip Bayless will be contacting doctors for lower-torso blood-flow. If he declines somewhat...well, you know what the story line will be.
Ratings are going to be through the roof.
Many are wondering if this is the "last straw" for Godell. How he's bad for the league, etc. I think this whole fiasco has made the League tens of millions of dollars next year. Every week is going to be a referendum on the Patriots, and Brady specifically. If you are a Pats fan, you are of course watching every game this season with a thirst for the NFL's blood in your mouth. We want "revenge"...further success in face of hater doubt. At least I do.
If you are a hater, or even just a casual fan, the opposite will be true. "Tune in this week to see if the evil Cheatriots lose!" Brady's performance will be picked apart like never before. HOWZ HE DOING WITH DA REGLR BALLZ. If he's great, or even very good, his status in the pantheon of quarterbacks will rise even further, due to everything he's had to deal with during this off-season. Pro-Brady guys like Steve Young, Trent Dilfer, and Skip Bayless will be contacting doctors for lower-torso blood-flow. If he declines somewhat...well, you know what the story line will be.
Ratings are going to be through the roof.
And they KNOW that the Pats were guilty because they always push the boundaries of the rules. Always looking for an edge. They have no respect for the rules. Plus what about all the times they never got caught? They have a history of cheating.ifmanis5 said:
All lies. All part of the continuing narrative.
New york writers are often the most provincial idiots in the country. A writer in Kansas City or Milwaukee or Houston covering his city's sports team has to worry about seeming like a rube. Because the ready made narrative is that the guy writing in Kansas City is a hopelessly unsophisticated local yokel with no idea of the horizons beyond his myopic vision. The writer in new york feels like he's immune from such accusations; so stone cold nitwits like Serby spew their loathing for anything not part of new york or an adversary of a new york team in a fashion that would make the KC writer blush and just assume that they can get away with it.Dahabenzapple2 said:
In for it too. SOSH sponsored?mwonow said:
I also daydreamed that Kraft held a 15 min interview before the game with a big slide show:
Show the obviously worked pictures in the Wells report
Show the parts about the rules and then how Indy breaks them
Show the Jets ball tampering and result
Show the Favre non compliance and result
Show the Chargers towel and result
Show the Panthers incident from last year and result
Then have a short time lapse video on gas law and pressure gauge
Then do a couple minutes on the ridiculous penalties for Spygate, uncapped year and bounty gate if you want to really poke the bear.
Close it with, have some integrity and clean up your house. And we look forward to picking 32 again in the upcoming draft. Mic drop.
This applies to the majority of the authors of all the articles critical of the judge's decision.
God dammit, that site really needs to add an "email me when it is in stock" feature.( . ) ( . ) and (_!_) said:
What a day. I haven't been to sleep yet. Numerous lightning delays totaling over 4 hours forced us to cancel our game at Toledo after a half. Who needs sleep after a day like yesterday?
We will be hearing this theme forever. And the "yeah, but you know they really cheated, right?" meme.ifmanis5 said:
It's fun to ignore that Tom's ultimate guilt or innocence was not briefed by either side or before Berman and that had Berman gratuitously gone there, his opinion would have been much more vulnerable on appeal.
In the end, I ike that Pats Haters are so damned frustrated by the perception that Tom got off on a technicality. Reading the likes of Serby and Kravitz spoil themselves has a value.
The nerve of this guy.
https://twitter.com/realrclark25/status/639463783438548992
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Chris Carter filling in for Golic on Mike & Mike this morning. They just teased, "Did you hear what Tedy Bruschi had to say yesterday? You will, coming up after the break." Carter groaned and rolled his eyes. I usually wouldn't devote any time to ESPN in the morning, but might have to check this out.
Watched about 30 seconds of it and couldn't focus on anything other than Carters painted on eyebrows.CantKeepmedown said:
(His remarks were to be expected. "No ruling on guilt or innocence. All about Goodell's power, etc.")
Edit: I see in the ESPN thread that Carter was apparently more evenhanded than I had expected. Too bad I couldn't move past the eyebrows and watch more.
If I had the gif making skills I'd recut the Red Dragon scene between Dolarhyde and Lounds, with Brady playing the former and Goodell the latter. Instead of Dolarhyde's slides I'd put teams followed by scoreboards. But alas, I do not have those skills.shoosh77 said:
Roger Cossack is on Mike and Mike. He is still in shock, saying it was certainly not a fair hearing but he thought that right had been bargained away--he thought Goodell had the right to literally make up the rules as he went along. He is amazed that the due process violations apparently shocked the conscience of the court. He doesn;t sound like he went to law school.
Average Reds said:
Same here. Looks like someone cut a car tire in half and glued a piece over each eye.
"What's that? Berman, himself, vacated an arbitration award just a few months ago? Huh. Didn't know that..." /RogerCossack
Both the News and the Post seem more focused on the smell of Goodell's blood in the water.singaporesoxfan said:
Erik Hanson's Hook said:
I met Carter on the set of "Inside the NFL" in late 2004. I'm not joking when I say that his eyebrows are painted on. Like Donald Trump's hair, they are at least 80% artificial.
Creepiest thing I've ever seen.
Harry Hooper said:
she kicks ass
http://mmqb.si.com/2015/06/16/the-mmqb-100-rachel-nichols-roger-goodell
I don’t expect Goodell to get canned, but only because the majority of owners are men who are used to getting their own way and are reflexively reacting to the popular anti-Goodell sentiment as a challenge to them. The stories now coming out about Roger’s comportment during hearings and his habit of taking any pushback from the opposite party as a personal insult (complete with storming red-faced out of the room) should be a giant red flag to those owners that their billion dollar investments absolutely can be diminished by this man. Is this really the guy you want as your point man when the next round of concussion lawsuits hits the league?
reggiecleveland said:
Though, he mentored Jeff Pash, the NHL's former GC, who was a driving force in this one.
Nowhere in Gideon v. Wainwright did the Supreme Court say that Clarence Gideon was not guilty. Only that the Constitution required counsel be appointed for him. It was only on retrial -- during fair proceedings -- that he was acquitted.
Whether the bleating idiots like Serby or Francesa or Tanguay actually understand is beside the point, but the fact that the proceedings were conducted illegally means the results of those proceedings aren't real. I'm sure when someone important to any of them gets arrested, they'll care. (Much as Rush Limbaugh suddenly became a 4th amendment believer when he got searched). Meanwhile, I hope they all keep checking the air pressure in their tires at the end of a long trip on a hot day and keep letting air out.
Well, you have named the exact reason why Goodell would lose his job, if he ever does. As soon as the owners decide that he's more trouble than he is worth, he's out. Whether and when that happens is anyone's guess.JimD said: