NFL finds Patriots employees probably deflated balls

[McDonaldsGuy]

mornelithe said:

McDonaldsGuy said:

The thing is is that the Patriots have been doing this as early as October 2014 (and likely way before that). I personally believe they started to really ramp it up after the Chiefs game. Notice how terrible Brady was during the first quarter of the season (including that demolition by the Chiefs) then after. It's a night and day difference.

 

The main issue though is that Brady lied. Brady lied to investigators a few times, wouldn't let them read his emails and texts, and denied involvement. He should get a year suspension based on that alone.

Yeah except that argument falls flat, given Brady was using correct balls in the SB, and went what, 8 for 8 on the final drive and brought his team back from 10pts down (which no one had ever done before)?  Additionally, where's the evidence Brady lied again?  Nothing in the Wells report actually says anyone did anything, it merely uses the NFL's appallingly low bar for 'preponderance of the evidence' (which is applied in integrity cases), as opposed to the real world 'evidence'.  As far as not giving them his phone...it's his phone, who knows what's on it.  And he owed the NFL exactly jack and shit after all the leaks (which no one in the league has addressed).

PS. 3 of the 4 Colts balls tested at Half-time were also under-inflated (Page 8)

Yeah it's not suspicious at all that Brady was caught LYING during interviews and he didn't let them see the text messages or emails. Not suspicious at all.

And it's not a "low bar," it's normal. The NFL just has to show there is a 51% probability that Tom Brady had knowledged and condoned the deflating of footballs and I think it's pretty clear he did.

Not to mention Brady was caught cheating before via Spygate.