Tom Brady's Suspension Appeal News

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Deciding not to visit somewhere because of a sports athlete... not sure if serious or a close-minded fool.

People are an odd bunch especially sports fans.
 
rofl, NFL trying to sweep it under the rug during the weekend, yet announces their shit in prime time for the world to hear.

The Patriots have a perfect opportunity to shift the narrative, they need to go on full out attack now and pounce to get this into the news cycle.

This move reminds me of how the patriots indefinitely suspended Jim McNally and John Jastremski to try and sweep deflategate under the rug, and to shift the narrative away from Brady.
 
If anything comes out of this I really hope Gillette becomes this hostile stadium for the away team. Man I really miss Foxboro Stadium where people weren't afraid to stand up and cheer.

Lol nah, the rich people at the games don't cheer or anything, foxboro high class :p

It sucks though , I want a crazy crowd
 
Mike Kensil has been removed for the NFL operations website

For background, I believe it was Friday when he was reported to have been the one who leaked the incorrect info the Chris Mortensen.

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This move reminds me of how the patriots indefinitely suspended Jim McNally and John Jastremski to try and sweep deflategate under the rug, and to shift the narrative away from Brady.

right, because it's odd for companies to suspend people who are under investigation with possible wrongdoing.

So strange and not at all different from a major NFL director being directly tied to leaking false info for the soul purpose of damaging an image.

Then again everyone has made up their minds, no point in trying to talk to someone who is so partial about everything.
 
Tom Brady was also under investigation for possible wrong doing. Is it odd the company didn't suspend him and just two people that on one had ever heard of before.

The Jets kicker wasn't suspended while there was an investigation, only his personal was.

Usually it's the lesser people who are thrown under the bus, no franchise in their right mind would ever suspend a QB over an equipment violation.
 

Free him from what exactly? The guy has cheated well before the AFC Title game last year according to the Wells Report by ordering the deflation of game balls for the past few years, he lied to NFL investigators, and he destroyed evidence to cover it up.

He, and his organization with a history of cheating, should be grateful that he only received a four game suspension.
 
This move reminds me of how the patriots indefinitely suspended Jim McNally and John Jastremski to try and sweep deflategate under the rug, and to shift the narrative away from Brady.

According to Shefter the league asked:

For those asking why Patriots suspended two employees if those two did nothing wrong, as New England claims: NFL asked Pats to suspend them prior to discipline being handed down, per a league source in New York. New England obliged with the NFL's request.

Goodell denies this, but the fact that the NFL needs to approve them being reinstated, that Shefter is standing by his statement and that the NFL hasn't been the most forthright in this whole issue, I tend to believe Shefter.
 
Mike Kensil has been removed for the NFL operations website

For background, I believe it was Friday when he was reported to have been the one who leaked the incorrect info the Chris Mortensen.

He was never on that website:
BenVolin: Not only has nothing changed with Mike Kensil, but he was not on that NFL Ops website to begin with.
https://twitter.com/benvolin/status/627898675080114176

See Google's cache version from July 26: http://webcache.googleusercontent.c...s/the-nfl-ops-team/+&cd=1&hl=de&ct=clnk&gl=de
 
I have posted a link to Google's cache version of the same site from July 26 (i.e. a week ago), that shows Kensil was never on that website.

Didn't see the cache link my bad, but for future reference you should never post anything Volin says. Guy repeatedly gets facts wrong just to be out first, and is extremely unreliable.
 
If anything comes out of this I really hope Gillette becomes this hostile stadium for the away team. Man I really miss Foxboro Stadium where people weren't afraid to stand up and cheer.

Bah, the same stadium where a guy was stabbed, died, and was peed on by drunks in the 70s. No thanks. I'll take safe Gillette where you can bring a kid go without much fear of him being puked on to old foxboro with its open air bleachers and metal benches.
 
Free him from what exactly? The guy has cheated well before the AFC Title game last year according to the Wells Report by ordering the deflation of game balls for the past few years, he lied to NFL investigators, and he destroyed evidence to cover it up.

He, and his organization with a history of cheating, should be grateful that he only received a four game suspension.

It's cool to be jealous of Brady. No need to hate on him because of your envy.
 
Free him from what exactly? The guy has cheated well before the AFC Title game last year according to the Wells Report by ordering the deflation of game balls for the past few years, he lied to NFL investigators, and he destroyed evidence to cover it up.

He, and his organization with a history of cheating, should be grateful that he only received a four game suspension.

I don't know that I've seen a poster who said things like this and turned out to not be ignorant of the evidence and circumstance. This is like a big "I don't actually know what's happening" flag.
 
I don't know why everyone thinks it was Kensil, or even only Kensil. Mortensen states it was multiple league sources.



http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/08/02/in-january-mort-told-weei-he-reconfirmed-psi-info/

People think it's Kensil because a WEEI show host claimed to have a source saying that it was Kensil who leaked it to the NFL. The person who leaked it supposedly has a tight relationship with the Kraft family, and some over a Pats forum were speculating that his source could possibly be Jonathan Kraft. Let me see if I can find the links.

Edit: Found the Link

But Dennis’s certainty in fingering Kensil as the main culprit is intriguing, because the host is known to have a tight relationship with the Kraft family dating back to his days as a sports anchor on Channel 7, when Robert Kraft was one of the station’s owners. The friendship, particularly with Robert and Jonathan Kraft, is an occasional source of humor on the show.

Dennis believes that Kensil told high-ranking NFL executives Jeff Pash (vice president and executive counsel), Troy Vincent (vice president of football operations) and Dave Gardi (senior vice president of football operations) that 11 of the 12 footballs were deflated to 2 pounds per square inch below the minimum, and that trio passed the information along to Mortensen, thus allowing him to report he had multiple sources.

If Dennis believes this, it’s a safe bet the Krafts do as well. Too bad we didn’t get to hear him confront Mortensen with his theory. The reporter never would have given up the source – he’d never be fed a morsel of information from anyone again if he did, and that’s his lifeblood as an “insider.”
 
Free him from what exactly? The guy has cheated well before the AFC Title game last year according to the Wells Report by ordering the deflation of game balls for the past few years, he lied to NFL investigators, and he destroyed evidence to cover it up.

He, and his organization with a history of cheating, should be grateful that he only received a four game suspension.


So where in the report did it say Brady ordered deflation of game balls? Also, while you are at it, tell us which page/paragraph it says that Brady lied to the investigators?
 
People think it's Kensil because a WEEI show host claimed to have a source saying that it was Kensil who leaked it to the NFL. The person who leaked it supposedly has a tight relationship with the Kraft family, and some over a Pats forum were speculating that his source could possibly be Jonathan Kraft. Let me see if I can find the links.

Edit: Found the Link

Dennis isn't very tight into the scene. It was obvious he got it somewhere else. Mort on the other hand looked like an obvious coward because he needed the bigger outlet.
 
But that's not what he did. He reported some false PSI numbers that greatly influenced public perception of this whole thing.

He was lied too, at the time he reported he had no idea it was wrong especially if he sources were high up in the NFL, and since it has been reported as wrong he probably is being asked by ESPN to keep his mouth shut. He really is stuck between and rock and hard place.
 
He was lied too, at the time he reported he had no idea it was wrong especially if he sources were high up in the NFL, and since it has been reported as wrong he probably is being asked by ESPN to keep his mouth shut. He really is stuck between and rock and hard place.

He should out his source. Whoever it was is a liar and manipulated EPSN for their own purposes. Why would they want to protect that?
 
I'm sorry for Tom that he has to spend more time looking at that gargoyle of a wife. Where did he dig that thing up from? A local meth clinic or something.
 
He should out his source. Whoever it was is a liar and manipulated EPSN for their own purposes. Why would they want to protect that?

I would hazard a guess that ESPN is more concerned about it's relationship with the NFL, otherwise everything you say is correct.
 
Boy the NFL really acted quickly to correct the report that Kensil had been removed as VP of Game Ops. Very impressive how quickly they refudiated the report, on a Sunday to boot!

What a sham.

ESPN is silent as a mouse.
 
Boy the NFL really acted quickly to correct the report that Kensil had been removed as VP of Game Ops. Very impressive how quickly they refudiated the report, on a Sunday to boot!

What a sham.

ESPN is silent as a mouse.

ESPN is the puppet of the NFL, no one should be surprised by any of this.
 
No one can back down.

If NFL backs down it encourages more players to take them to court. The players gave the commish these powers. He is going to keep using them until a new CBA changes something.

If the Pats back down they are labeled as cheaters x 2.

The major claim by the patriots is that he isn't abiding by the CBA. They don't want him to fix the agreement, they want him to stick to it.
 
The major claim by the patriots is that he isn't abiding by the CBA. They don't want him to fix the agreement, they want him to stick to it.
Why would Goodell ever agree to that?

He would only agree if he knew he was going to lose. Even then I think he would rather get a decision saying that instead of admitting it.

I only see a settlement if Brady admits to it to save 1-2 games of the suspension.
 
Why would Goodell ever agree to that?

He would only agree if he knew he was going to lose. Even then I think he would rather get a decision saying that instead of admitting it.

I only see a settlement if Brady admits to it to save 1-2 games of the suspension.

You said the players gave the commissioner these powers. They did not, so your conclusion that the agreement needs to be changed is incorrect.

I have no idea what Goodell will or won't want to do, but I do know that by most accounts the NFLPA's position is a good one.
 
No one can back down.

If NFL backs down it encourages more players to take them to court. The players gave the commish these powers. He is going to keep using them until a new CBA changes something.

If the Pats back down they are labeled as cheaters x 2.

I agree that both sides have cornered themselves in terms of negotiation, but as to the bolded, they're already getting taken to court regularly (and losing) on suspending high-profile players in cases that don't involve either a substance abuse or PED violation. If the NFL wants less of these cases, they should set up a system where there is proper adjudication and reasonable penalties.

I think one interesting thing I got from reading Stradley's analysis linked above is that by settling, the NFL can avoid this case being used against them in the future. Seems to me to be one of the few incentives for the NFL to back down at all.
 
Free him from what exactly? The guy has cheated well before the AFC Title game last year according to the Wells Report by ordering the deflation of game balls for the past few years, he lied to NFL investigators, and he destroyed evidence to cover it up.

He, and his organization with a history of cheating, should be grateful that he only received a four game suspension.

There's is no evidence supporting any of that. He was well within his right to destroy his phone and only did so after Wells said he didn't need it.

You, like others, have been duped by the NFL leak about the phone to make it seem like it had anything to do with the investigation.

Instead of learning the facts, you have accepted the rhetoric here like others have and decided to ignored the facts based on your predisposed negative view of the Patriots organization.
 
Tommy Buns needs a better attorney.

They start out by seemingly admitting the Pats cheated but don't want that to extend to Tom because they can't prove he was aware or even generally aware of anything going down and further that there is no precedent for being punished for being aware of a wrongdoing.

This is not what my Pats friends have been telling me for the past few months so Tom must have gotten a moron attorney.
 
Tommy Buns needs a better attorney.

They start out by seemingly admitting the Pats cheated but don't want that to extend to Tom because they can't prove he was aware or even generally aware of anything going down and further that there is no precedent for being punished for being aware of a wrongdoing.

This is not what my Pats friends have been telling me for the past few months so Tom must have gotten a moron attorney.

What are you referring to?
 
What are you referring to?
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The reason I'm making this point is the
2 reason we are about to tell you why we thing the
3 Wells report is wrong, we think the Wells report
4 doesn't answer or doesn't provide the basis for any
5 discipline of the player.
6 This is wholly apart from what you did on the
7 team, because on the team, the Wells report made
8 very different findings, that it was more probable
9 than not that something occurred and that's what
10 they said and the team was responsible. But for the
11 player, it was very, very different and I assume
12 while Mr. Wells testifies, I assume that was a
13 deliberate decision he made.

14 Had he been able to conclude that it was more
15 probable than not that Mr. Brady participated in any
16 kind of inappropriate activities, that's what he
17 would have said in his findings. He did not say
18 that. So before I get into the facts, I just felt
19 compelled to make that context point, which we think
20 is very important./QUOTE]
I didn't read the whole transcript. Just skimmed the beginning so maybe they said the entire report should be thrown out later on, but that is not how they explained their argument at the outset.
 
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The reason I'm making this point is the
2 reason we are about to tell you why we thing the
3 Wells report is wrong, we think the Wells report
4 doesn't answer or doesn't provide the basis for any
5 discipline of the player.
6 This is wholly apart from what you did on the
7 team, because on the team, the Wells report made
8 very different findings, that it was more probable
9 than not that something occurred and that's what
10 they said and the team was responsible. But for the
11 player, it was very, very different and I assume
12 while Mr. Wells testifies, I assume that was a
13 deliberate decision he made.

14 Had he been able to conclude that it was more
15 probable than not that Mr. Brady participated in any
16 kind of inappropriate activities, that's what he
17 would have said in his findings. He did not say
18 that. So before I get into the facts, I just felt
19 compelled to make that context point, which we think
20 is very important./QUOTE]
I didn't read the whole transcript. Just skimmed the beginning so maybe they said the entire report should be thrown out later on, but that is not how they explained their argument at the outset.

I really don't think that says what you seem to think it does. That isn't saying they think any of the conclusions are valid at all.
 
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