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Originally brought to the court by the league after it upheld the four-game suspension of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, Judge Berman is also hearing a counter-suit by the union attempting to strike down the league’s decision.

“I’m getting bad criticism that I made him look like Lurch”, Rosenberg told The New York Times on Wednesday. “Now, this Tom Brady thing, I did this whole wide shot with a million people in it. And everybody’s focusing on that one little fraction of...

As the sides did last week as well, the NFL Players Association (on behalf of Tom Brady) and the NFL have once again filed briefs to U.S. District Court stating their positions.

Following separate, private sessions with Brady, Goodell and their lawyers Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Richard Berman said in court that the positions of both sides have strengths and weaknesses and it would make sense to resolve the fight with a settlement.

The league suspended Brady for four games over his alleged role in a scheme to deflate footballs, making them easier to grip, in the Patriots’ 45-7 victory over the Indianapolis Colts in a January play-off game.

During an open hearing in between closed-door negotiating sessions, Berman grilled Daniel Nash, an attorney representing the league, about a lack of solid evidence that the Patriots quarterback ordered balls to be deflated in the AFC Championship Game.

Months after Wells was hired to investigate Deflategate, the NFL finally admitted that the league was not compelled to hire an independent investigator to look into the matter.

First, Judge Berman could order NFL general counsel Jeffrey Pash to testify at the appeal hearing, with the NFLPA entitled to obtain all communications between Pash and “independent” investigator Ted Wells firm, despite Goodell’s prior finding that the...

Brady’s agent Donald Yee blasted the Wells report and said it contained “significant and tragic flaws.” Brady, with the NFL Players Association’s backing, argued that an appeal heard by Goodell could not be considered impartial, and that the league’s...

But at ground level, Brady looked sharp in his first football action since the Patriots beat the Seattle Seahawks in February for the franchise’s – and his – fourth NFL title.

Roger Goodell won’t believe you.

Still, Garoppolo was very much under the watchful eye of the media and fans more than any quarterback not named Brady or Bledsoe has been in New England since the days before the Patriots were the dominant franchise in the league with four Lombardis in the trophy case.

A judge in New York said Friday he expects New England quarterback Tom Brady and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to be available for conferences in August aimed at resolving “Deflategate“.

When NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell upheld the four-game “Deflategate” suspension against New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady this week, he cited the allegation that Brady “destroyed” his personal cell phone as evidence that the future Hall of Famer...

Kessler called it “offensive” that the league accused Brady of destroying his cellphone to obstruct the inquiry by investigator Ted Wells, a claim Goodell made in upholding the suspension Tuesday.