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Exactly. The Saints lost their head coach for a YEAR. The Pats still got off easy. I would have suspended Brady and Bill B for a year. The text messages suggest this was normal practice and then Patriots organization would not let that equipment manager continue to report to the Wells commission ( because they KNOW…

I like Garopollo so far, hope he does well, Still fuck the Pat’s and their apologists.

2 reasons. One, the franchise has a history of this sort of thing. Two, the punishment seems to be based more on Brady being uncooperative and flat out lying to the league than about the actual infraction.

This 4 game suspension should be interesting and I wish that game against the Jags was against another division foe like the Dolphins, or Jets, but it doesn’t matter too much since Ryan’s with the Bills now and with supposedly a formidable defense, which makes it the more intriguing match up to boot. Not to mention…

I don’t think it’s harsh enough. Lying and obstructing the investigation is deplorable.

I’m a little confused. This is a site that has routinely said one of its core beliefs is that morality has no place in your assessment of sports. And yet most people who choose to read this site are miffed that a rules violation is being punished differently than an incident that occurred away from the game. I’m not…

Just thought of this and made a similar comment. This scenario is fantastic.

They can spin however hard they want, but the text messages are pretty damning on their own.

Bountygate was paying people to hurt other people.

LOL. That was just the nice wording in the report. That asshole more than knew, it is what he wanted. The Patriots organization are also repeat cheaters. So fuck ‘em.

While this is more than likely, some sick part of me really hopes Jimmy G. lights the world on fire, goes 4-0, and Bledsoe’s Brady.

It specifies regular season. He can play in pre-season games. Suspended unpaid for first 4 of regular season.

Sure, but it’s football. So, when we’re looking at “competitive rules” violations, the issue is how much the violation undermined fair competition. In Bountygate, fair competition was not much or at all affected because it’s already the point to put a physical beatdown on the other team (because football, but if it…

As long as one of the “suspended” games includes the next Super Bowl game he makes it into - I’m a lot better with the the essential fairness of the entire shit show.

Initially I thought the league wasn’t going to suspend their golden boy, but once I started hearing about other teams getting pissed off, this became the obvious result.

This transgression should be compared to Bountygate because it’s an “on the field” issue instead of to the DV cases- because the basis of a suspension can’t just be on a general sliding scale of douchiness. So, comparing it to Bountygate, when Sean Payton was suspended for a full year, this makes no fucking sense.…

Make them during division games. I hate these guys. I hate his face.

I was unaware the Vikings, Panthers, or Chargers ever had their game balls certified to be the proper temperature an hour before the game and then had assistants secretly warm them up in bathrooms under specific instructions from their team’s quarterback.

Like Clinton or Nixon, it wasnt the crime that did Brady and the Pats in, it was the obstruction of the investigation and outright lies