Quote:The Patriots' rebuttal to the Wells Report is essentially a rehash of the pack of lies told to NFL Security and Wells during interviews.  Wells and Goodell did not believe the testimony then and won't believe it now.  Some of it is just idiotic, like the idea that Tom Brady is such a great guy, he was just helping his friend Jastremski deal with the media scrutiny.  That's why he called him 6 times and invited him to the QB room.  The problem is, Jastremski was never made available to the media.  He only had to deal with investigators.  So, any "advice" Brady gave was about how to deceive the investigators.  It certainly does not require 6 phone calls to urge Jastremski to tell the truth.

 

Now Goodell has decided to hear the appeal himself rather than hand it off.  Excellent.  I hope he upholds the full suspension and double dog dares Brady to file suit in Big Boy court - where there's this thing called "discovery" - all emails, texts, and phone calls will be subpoenaed, Tom.  And we will reopen the question of ball tampering in previous games and seasons.  Still wanna play hardball, Tom?  Or would that be too hard to grasp?

 

Lying to an investigation that has no legal jurisdiction is easy....lying to a grand jury or under oath is a completely different scenario.

 

I think it was Frangie (who piggy backed from someone else) said that Tom Brady should just come out and admit it.  He liked the balls at a certain psi, and didn't think it was a big deal across the league and that maybe it was even common practice.  Bite the bullet and move on.  At this point the Patriots have become an even bigger joke than when this first came out.

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