Tom Brady to serve 4 game suspension for 2016

[pugsnotdrugs19]

U.S. Appeals court has reinstated Tom Brady's 4-game suspension over his involvement in the Deflategate controversy. pic.twitter.com/haMQ1CHwLB

— NFL on ESPN (@ESPNNFL) April 25, 2016

#12 out for the first 4 games this year..

That #1 seed all of the sudden looks much more attainable..

[Dartgod]

Suspended for what? How about a ****ing link?

[Red Dawg]

He deserves it. More proof Judge Berman is an idiot like I said last year.

[KChiefs1]

Huh?


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[GoChargers]

Nice to see that some people still care about the integrity of the game, unlike the Cheatriots, Goodell, and Kraft's butt-buddy judge who overturned the suspension in the first place.

[ClevelandBronco]

Originally Posted by GoChargers

Nice to see that some people still care about the integrity of the game, unlike the Cheatriots, Goodell, and Kraft's butt-buddy judge who overturned the suspension in the first place.

For me, this further damages the tatters of integrity left in the game.

There's a rule against ball tampering and a penalty for breaking the rule. IF Brady was involved (and I've seen nothing that convinces me that the balls were altered at all, much less that Brady was involved), he should pay his share of the fine that is the penalty for this offense and that should be the end of it.

I find it shameful that fans of other teams would rather see a successful team unjustly penalized than see the rules enforced.

[ChiefGator]

Originally Posted by ClevelandBronco

For me, this further damages the tatters of integrity left in the game.

There's a rule against ball tampering and a penalty for breaking the rule. IF Brady was involved (and I've seen nothing that convinces me that the balls were altered at all, much less that Brady was involved), he should pay his share of the fine that is the penalty for this offense and that should be the end of it.

I find it shameful that fans of other teams would rather see a successful team unjustly penalized than see the rules enforced.

I completely agree.

Always has been a worker's rights issue with me too... which is why it didn't bother to see him refuse to hand over his phone to his employer so they could continue a witch hunt.

It will be interesting to read more about the legal basis on overturning the previous judgement.

[Chiefnj2]

Originally Posted by ClevelandBronco

There's a rule against ball tampering and a penalty for breaking the rule. IF Brady was involved (and I've seen nothing that convinces me that the balls were altered at all, much less that Brady was involved), he should pay his share of the fine that is the penalty for this offense and that should be the end of it.

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You need to read the rule.

[jallmon]

Originally Posted by ClevelandBronco

For me, this further damages the tatters of integrity left in the game.

There's a rule against ball tampering and a penalty for breaking the rule. IF Brady was involved (and I've seen nothing that convinces me that the balls were altered at all, much less that Brady was involved), he should pay his share of the fine that is the penalty for this offense and that should be the end of it.

I find it shameful that fans of other teams would rather see a successful team unjustly penalized than see the rules enforced.

Wow. I fully agree. With a Donkeys' fan. Think I'll go lay down a bit.

This whole deflategate was media driven and supported by teams who can't beat the Patriots on the field of play. I look forward to when the Chiefs are good enough that we don't have to cheer for a team to lose their QB to gain on them in the rankings.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by ClevelandBronco

For me, this further damages the tatters of integrity left in the game.

There's a rule against ball tampering and a penalty for breaking the rule. IF Brady was involved (and I've seen nothing that convinces me that the balls were altered at all, much less that Brady was involved), he should pay his share of the fine that is the penalty for this offense and that should be the end of it.

I find it shameful that fans of other teams would rather see a successful team unjustly penalized than see the rules enforced.

I think it's an interesting problem, because I think it's about far more than the deflation stuff.

The Patriots have been gaming the rules against the spirit of the game for a long time. At its core, the objective of any sport is to identify and laud the best athletes. Most of the teams understand and agree with that, and play within the rules.

The Patriots and the Broncos are always doing something to tilt the odds in their favor with stuff that's highly questionable. Whether it's the garbage that Belichick pulled with the jersey numbers or the filming or the Broncos always making deals behind the salary cap, they're changing the focus of the sport. It's not about lauding the best athletes for those two franchises, and it hasn't been for years. They're changing the game to lauding the best people who find loopholes in the rulebook or the best people who make creative contracts to undermine the salary cap.

In the long term of the league, that's not a good thing. If it's about that, we could go be fans of Boeing or Apple or something. In sports, people want it to be about the athletes, not the rules. So I think this penalty is more of a message to the Patriots to stop worming around everything.

The funny thing is, some of these things shouldn't even be against the rules. I don't care if Tom Brady wants a deflated ball, and I don't even really care about videoing the practices.

On a related note about the videos, I watched a 30 for 30 show about the Buffalo Bills this weekend and their four lost Super Bowls. Before the Super Bowl against the Cowboys, Jimmy Johnson was watching ESPN, which showed some clips of the pre-game warmups. He noticed that Jim Kelly was doing a lot of shuttle pass practices to Thurman Thomas, and the Bills hadn't done shuttle passes all year. He told his defensive coordinator about it and they gave the defense an emergency prep before the game.

Oh, and by the way, the Bills went to their first Super Bowl because they faced a terrible quarterback in the AFC championship. The Broncos eventually benched Elway because he was playing terribly and the Broncos were getting shut out. The Broncos' only touchdown came from Gary Kubiak in the fourth quarter, and the Bills won 10-7. I love hearing about how Elway was so consistently bad in big games.

[RobBlake]

Sorry but the nfl is a joke.

What's so funny is if Brady wasn't so defiant he prob would have just be fined at most

[The Franchise]

But **** Goodell.

[bdj23]

Haha.

Suck on that, Patriots.

[Dante84]

too bad he didnt miss the playoff game

[KChiefs1]

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