Kraft:  "I have often said, ‘If you want to get a deal done, sometimes you have to get the lawyers out of the room." 

 

So, Kraft is suggesting he and Goodell reached some kind of personal agreement in May when Kraft agreed to accept the team penalties?  So, it was a bribe offered and accepted?  But now he claims Goodell didn't stay bought, is that correct?

 

The reality is, Kraft gave up nothing in the supposed "deal", which is why I seriously doubt there ever was a deal.  He had no option of fighting the penalties and was told by the other owners to stop acting like a jerk.  Now he's claiming he shut up because it would get Tom exonerated.  That's funny stuff.

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