<p style="font-family:arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;">http://www.usnews.com/news/sports/articl...te-hearing

<p style="font-family:arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;margin-left:40px;">Judge Richard M. Berman on Wednesday repeatedly asked NFL lawyer Daniel L. Nash for direct evidence as he gave both sides a chance to state their case in the first court hearing in the case.

<p style="font-family:arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;">The NFL's weakness here is, they simply don't have any direct evidence to support this.  In addition, the circumstantial is flimsy at best.

<p style="font-family:arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;margin-left:40px;">The judge says: "You might say (Brady) got no better advantage from the under-inflation."

<p style="font-family:arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;">A salient point many have made all along.

<p style="font-family:arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;">IMO... Brady has an extremely good chance of winning this.  Goodell never got the case he wanted, yet still ruled the way he wanted anyway because he was mad at Brady for standing up to him and defying him.

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