Jets’ Cromartie: Patriots’ Brady shouldn’t be suspended

“(Brady) can’t dispute that he failed to cooperate.

Brady said he sometimes has an assistant destroy old phones to ensure that personal information, such as family photos, remains confidential. But Nash acknowledged the long-running Deflategate saga may not end there, given the possibility of appeals. These are held to take the emotion out of the case and to determine whether there exists a “zone of possible agreement”, or a range of outcomes that both parties would agree to.

“… Roger’s going outside of everything, outside of the rule and making his own rules up”. No matter how compelling the major league baseball pennant races are; no matter what is occurring in pro golf or motorsports, it all takes a back seat to the NFL as players report and start putting on their helmets and pads.

“In these circumstances, and under the governing standard of review, at the very least, the Commissioner was arguably” construing the CBA in finding conduct detrimental and imposing a four-game suspension”. “Our legal briefs and exhibits speak for themselves”. This is one of the only times the athletes on TV are playing because they love the game. I hope that the federal judge makes the NFL turn over their emails like Brady had to and then we can see a lot of what happened behind the scenes. Where the two sides have been told repeatedly. “It hurt my assessment of his credibility for him to begin his interview by telling me he declined to give me the documents”.

I think Saints fans would argue a hefty fine and losing a couple of draft picks is nowhere near as harsh as having your head coach suspended for a season.

On cross-examination, attorney Lorin Reisner, representing the NFL, asked Brady how he arrived at 12.5 PSI as his preferred inflation.

“And that is a decision that we think was carefully considered”, Nash said.

The NFL commissioner also has a track record, and it’s nowhere near as successful as that of the Patriots.

Wells’ investigation found text messages between Brady and a pair of equipment managers – one of whom referred to himself as “the Deflator” – discussing the preparation of footballs for the January 18 game.

Raise your hand if want the endless, breathless reporting on Tom Brady and the alleged deflated footballs to stop.

Part of the NFLPA’s lawsuit was that items from Brady’s appeal, such as some emails he sent that had nothing to do with the psi of footballs, were made public.

The Fox Sports excerpt revealed something about the thought processes of investigator Wells, who was questioned by Brady’s lawyer, Jeffrey Kessler. It’s never something that has been on my radar, registered. But that misstates the facts. That means that the “Law of the Shop” is where Brady’s camp has the best shot at overturning a suspension.