2015 NFL Football thread- do your bragging or complain here

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[Onkel Neal]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports...land/71504142/


Tom Brady is back

[August]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports...land/71504142/


Tom Brady is back

I knew it all along.

[Mr Quatro]

Chargers and 49ers last preseason game tonight @ Levi stadium (somewhere near San Francisco I think) live on NFL Network 10pm EST

way past August bedtime

[August]

Originally Posted by Mr Quatro

Chargers and 49ers last preseason game tonight @ Levi stadium (somewhere near San Francisco I think) live on NFL Network 10pm EST

way past August bedtime

I might catch the first half but some of us got to go to work in the morning!

[Admiral Halsey]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports...land/71504142/


Tom Brady is back

As a Steeler fan this sucks. Also much as I hate to admit it until it came out he destroyed his cell phone I was actually on Brady's side. However that just smells like someone trying to hide something.

[August]

Originally Posted by Admiral Halsey

As a Steeler fan this sucks. Also much as I hate to admit it until it came out he destroyed his cell phone I was actually on Brady's side. However that just smells like someone trying to hide something.

That's because the NFL went out of it's way to misrepresent what happened to that cell phone. Brady and his lawyer had already told the Wells that under no circumstances would they give them his cell phone so it hardly matters what they did with it later on. As for actually destroying it, that is not at all an unusual practice for the rich and famous. I'm sure there is a lot of non football related stuff on Tom Brady's cell phone that a certain element within the league office that would just love to leak out to embarrass him. I wouldn't have given those people my personal property either.

Really, this has been a mountain out of a molehill hatchet job against the Patriots by the NFL and certain sports media figures from the very start, whether it's Mortensen deliberately exaggerating the psi levels in the AFC game balls or the so called "independent" Wells report. If anything this should have been just a $5k equipment tampering fine like the NFL rules list for such an offense but instead this becomes a 7 month long media circus witch hunt that I and many of us in Patriots Nation believe more and more was just a dirty attempt to hamstring the Patriots enough that the rest of the league has a chance against them.


As for the investigation itself it would have been more competently conducted by the Keystone Cops. This is what, the 4th time in a row that the courts have tossed out Goodells punishments for similar reasons? He might be listed in the CBA as the arbitrator but that does not give him the right to arbitrarily award penalties. That does not give him the right to conduct biased investigations designed to come up with a pre determined outcome. Just ask the Dolphins coaches how Wells conducted the interviews in the Imbroglio scandal.

Seriously a quarter pound PSI loss in a ball that has apparently never been tested after half a games use is equivalent to using anabolic steroids when it comes to penalties? Screw them. Goodell, Pasch and Vincent need to go before they embarrass the league again.

[fred8615]

Originally Posted by August

Really, this has been a mountain out of a molehill hatchet job against the Patriots by the NFL and certain sports media figures from the very start,...

Us Saints fans tried to warn everybody about His Holiness Goodell back when "Bountygate" happened. But nobody would listen.

[August]

Originally Posted by fred8615

Us Saints fans tried to warn everybody about His Holiness Goodell back when "Bountygate" happened. But nobody would listen.

Yep and that is partially our fault. The Pats owner Robert Kraft was all about accepting league punishment no matter how arbitrary or excessive when it was someone elses team under the gun but when it's his turn to get screwed over suddenly he has a big issue with it. That's one big reason why he's gotten no sympathy from Jerry Jones and the other team owners.

BTW has anyone heard what (if anything) the NFL intends to do to prevent balls from being tampered with in the future? Have any rules or standards been put in place to record the PSI of the footballs before, during and after the game?

[Mr Quatro]

Goodell has had his problems ... I agree with the NFL players union leave him alone without backing up claims.


This article is a year old, but time will tell.

Remember this lady: http://www.businessinsider.com/suppo...ssioner-2014-9

Support is growing for a campaign to draft Condoleezza Rice as Commissioner for the troubled National Football League (NFL).
American football, the country’s most popular sport and a bastion of macho male culture, has suffered one of the worst weeks in its history with three high-profile stars facing accusations of domestic violence.
The crisis has led to calls for Ms Rice, a lifelong Cleveland Browns fan, to step in replace the beleaguered Roger Goodell as Commissioner.