"Official" NFL Smack Talkin' Thread

[Ratickle]

Third time they've caught New England cheating.

Brady's claims that he didn't know of efforts to deflate game balls and didn't know anything about what McNally did: "We found these claims not plausible and contradicted by other evidence," Wells wrote.

In investigating Brady, Wells said he was hindered by the quarterback's refusal to provide his own emails, texts or phone records.

But it's not hard to read between the lines: "We believe it is unlikely that an equipment assistant and a locker room attendant would deflate game balls without Brady's knowledge and approval," Wells wrote.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/nfl-finds-patriots-employees-probably-deflated-balls/ar-BBji1ls

 

[Ratickle]

Think they'll take away the conference championship? They should, they cheated!!

 

[Serious News]

Former coaching great Don Shula lowers boom on Belichick, Pats

"We always tried to live by the rules and set an example that it was always done with a lot of class, a lot of dignity'' Shula said. "Always done the right way. "We didn't deflate any balls."

Ever since Spygate soiled the New England Patriots in a scandal of videotaping opponent signals back in 2007, Shula considered their coach, Bill Belichick, as the Anti-Shula. "Beli-cheat,'' he said to me publicly last January in a manner he had privately for years.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl...hula-lowers-boom-on-belichick-pats/ar-BBjwZ0q

 

[Blue Oval]

:huh:

 

[Ratickle]

I believe Shula's comment on the snowplow fieldgoal that New England did way back was something like, "It is the most unfair play in the history of the NFL. He actually expected the league to step in a rescind the play, but the commissioner said even though it was unfair, there was no rule explicitly forbidding it, so they passed one the next season.

 

[Bobcat]

 

[Ratickle]

I just don't get it. This is the third time the team has been caught cheating. The NBA will make an owner sell his team for racial comments, but the NFL only gives a four game suspension for repeated cheating? Heck, the NFL gave a player more games suspension for getting tattoos before he was even in the NFL. That is certainly more important than cheating during championship games.

Especially since the league had been notified before the game the Patriots balls appeared to be deflated in the previous game. I guess if you're friends with Goodell you can get away with anything.

"Terrelle Pryor – Despite this happening while he was in college, Pryor was suspended for five games in 2011 for receiving tattoos while at Ohio State."

 

[fund razor]

Is Goodell Canadian?

 

[Wrinkleface]

Former coaching great Don Shula lowers boom on Belichick, Pats

"We always tried to live by the rules and set an example that it was always done with a lot of class, a lot of dignity'' Shula said. "Always done the right way. "We didn't deflate any balls."

Ever since Spygate soiled the New England Patriots in a scandal of videotaping opponent signals back in 2007, Shula considered their coach, Bill Belichick, as the Anti-Shula. "Beli-cheat,'' he said to me publicly last January in a manner he had privately for years.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl...hula-lowers-boom-on-belichick-pats/ar-BBjwZ0q

Is that like Rat-a cheat?????:reddevil:

 

[Ratickle]

A.J. Feeley, the former Dolphins and Eagles backup quarterback, said he saw Tom Brady receiving broken-in footballs during a game in 2004, back when the same balls were used by both teams. Feeley, meanwhile, said the Dolphins were getting new balls every time they were on offense.

The revelations which are about 11 years and two Super Bowls late came during an interview on 97.5 The Fanatic in Philadelphia.

“Prior to Tommy and Peyton Manning going to the league and saying, ‘Let us doctor our balls’ we used to all play with the same balls. […] Somehow this beat-up ball from the ball boy was getting thrown in on offense for New England, yet when we were on offense this orange brand new ball was getting thrown in.”

One of the most underrated aspects of the entirety of Deflategate is that in 2006, based largely on the lobbying of Brady and Peyton Manning, the NFL agreed to let each team handle their own footballs during a game. This was an obvious mistake that would clearly backfire, as it did with Deflategate.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl...s-using-doctored-footballs-in-2004/ar-BBjJv67

 

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My cousin was incensed!!!

 

[Ratickle]

Leave it to a Hall of Fame quarterback to put Tom Brady’s role in Deflategate into proper perspective.

Former Buffalo Bills quarterback Jim Kelly joined “We Need to Talk” on CBS Sports and said there was “no doubt” Brady cheated.

“Oh, there’s no doubt,” Kelly said. “There’s no way that an equipment manager in the National Football League is going to do something to the football without the greatest quarterback ever to play knowing … ”

Just like all the box scores could tell us, Brady has been successful regardless of what kind of football he uses. In Kelly’s words, the Patriots Super Bowl MVP can “throw a football if it was over-inflated or deflated.” That makes him wonder why his “good friend” would cheat.

“You do something like that, you’re going to get caught,” Kelly said. “And Tom didn’t need to do it … but why?”

The answer is because he feels more comfortable throwing a deflated ball, just like many other QBs. Brady likes an under-inflated ball, while Aaron Rodgers prefers an overinflated ball. It’s just preference. But having an equipment guy take air out of the balls after the referees checked them is blatantly breaking the rules, and there’s no need for it. But when you’re talking about an organization that videotapes other teams’ signals and allegedly cuts out headsets, this sort of thing should not come as a surprise.

http://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/artic...ksrc=story_sport_indycar_right_image_18837695

 

[Ratickle]

And now he appeals. On the grounds it is okay to cheat? I still think they got off extremely light.

 

[Bobcat]

 

[Ratickle]

Armour: Tom Brady's cover-up worse than the crime

Tom Brady destroyed his credibility along with his cell phone. Might have put a few dents in his legacy, too.

For months, everyone has been snickering at the idea of the reigning Super Bowl MVP, the NFL's Golden Boy, being suspended for letting air out of footballs. But no one should be laughing now, not after Commissioner Roger Goodell's little bombshell Tuesday.

Brady had his cell phone destroyed March 5 or 6, which just so happened to be right after the folks investigating allegations that he and the New England Patriots had tampered with footballs during the AFC Championship asked for it. Then he neglected to mention that fact for another two months.

Some 10,000 text messages, including an inordinately high amount of exchanges with equipment assistant John Jastremski in the days after Deflategate was uncovered, were now conveniently gone.

"Rather than simply failing to cooperate, Mr. Brady made a deliberate effort to ensure that investigators would never have access to information that he had been asked to produce. Put differently, there was an affirmative effort by Mr. Brady to conceal potentially relevant evidence and to undermine the investigation," Goodell wrote in his letter upholding Brady's four-game suspension.

"All of this indisputably constitutes conduct detrimental to the integrity of, and public confidence in, the game of professional football."

http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/armour-tom-bradys-cover-up-worse-than-the-crime/ar-AAdCX7K

 

[Ratickle]

Tom Brady didn't deserve a four-game suspension, he deserved more

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2015/07/tom...n-upheld-roger-goodell-deflategate-four-games