Quote:Here's my expectation. Brady's suspension is going to be cut back to 2 games when the appeal is settled. He'll make his 2015 debut vs. the Jaguars. That suddenly becomes a game that will garner national attention.

I don't see any reason to reduce the suspension other than to appease the butt hurt Boston fans. Arthur Blank made a comment saying that the reason the penalties were so harsh was because the Pats decided to play hardball instead of owning the issue. As you can recall, when the Falcons we're accused of piping in crowd noise they acknowledged the issue, admitted wrongdoing, and fired the "scapegoat". They were only docked a 5th round pick and a fine.


My feeling is that a similar outcome would've occurred with the Pats had Brady acknowledged and admitted wrong doing and owned it, and if Kraft didn't make the investigation more difficult than necessary. They probably would've lost just a mid round draft pick and Brady gets a 1 game suspension.

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