| Arkaign said: I'm glad that got overturned. Whether NE keeps strong this year or falters, it is never good for there to be a gigantic excuse for anything like missing your most important player for a quarter of the season. At the same time, the ruling is kind of shady, and spells major problems for discipline in the NFL if they allow this to stand : Essentially what the judge said on this is that because there wasn't a specific penalty/rule for punishment for the specific offense alleged in this situation, that the NFL had no authority to dole out anything on the matter. In essence, it's like if one of your kids got drunk, stole your car and then wrecked it, but if you had no rule that you had established before about that, then you couldn't ground them. So I expect the league to take this to the district level on appeals, and there will be massive ramifications far beyond Brady/NE on this fiasco. I just hope the appeals go into the next offseason and don't screw with NE/Brady during this season. |
This is actually not the main reason that it got overturned. If you read all of the legal analysts tweeting about this and read the court document itself, it was because there was found to be a completely unfair PROCESS to find Brady guilty, starting with the "independant" Wells Report (which the judge also puts in quotations because that's a joke). The Wells report was one-sided, and was edited by part of the NFLs legal team, Jeffrey Pash, during the whole proceeding the Patriots legal team were barred from seeing the a lot of the documentation in order to rebutt and see what was being gathered against them. The appeal with Goodell was a farce, Goodell had already made up his mind, and during it Jeffrey Pash was blocked from Brady's legal team's questioning, and he was a MAJOR contributor to the Wells Report. Goodell lied to our faces about said appeal, and said Brady was not forthcoming, and unconvincing, and that he hindered the investigation. All not true, when the transcript came out, it was found that Brady was extremely cooperative, and during the investigation had provided the cell phone that he had, and a prior one, the one that had been destroyed was a regular thing for Brady, and ALL communication from that phone was provided to the legal teams from the service provider. Brady was railroaded, the Patriots were screwed, because the rest of the league hates them winning all of the time and wanted to find a way to even the playing field.
Too bad for them, all Brady does is wins.
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