Tom Brady: Guilty Until Proven Innocent
Paul Morigi
Is Barry Sanders better than Emmitt Smith ? Yes (check my other post). Is the Original Dream Team better than any other compilation of basketball talent ever assembled? Yes (check my other post). Is Tom Brady not guilty? Yes (yes, I said is he "not guilty" rather than "innocent").
Sure all these questions, can be debated, but really...should they?
4 points of "non-guilty" from this Seahawk Fan!
1. Whats the big deal about the cell phone? Why does the NFL need it? Text messages? come on...every text message has a sender and a receiver? Get the other side of those "text messages" (By the way, Brady provided a complete spreadsheet of EVERY PERSON he texted with). What right does the NFL have for taking Tom Brady's phone. Either they have evidence against him or they don't. Text messages is really their only hope to proving guilt? Also what about the McNally & Jastremski text messages? They never had any text messages claiming Brady wanted the balls at a level lower than 12.5 PSI. And in fact all their messages talked about over-inflating the balls on purpose to anger Brady. And what about this text message? Referencing that the refs made the balls 16 PSI which is way OVER the limit.
Jastremski to his fiance - "I just measured some of the balls. They supposed to be 13 lbs... They were like 16. Felt like bricks"
Wait what? The text message references 13 lbs and nothing about going below 12.5? Weird. And what about the fact that the balls were over inflated by 2.5 PSI by the Referees. Doesn't matter right. Doesn't that mean the REFS ARE GUILTY OF CHEATING? Maybe this ref hated Tom like all the people claiming he is guilty. What about this Brady and Jastremski text exchange the day after the AFC championship game when the Deflategate already began.
Brady - "You good Jonny boy?"
Jastremski - "Still nervous; so far so good though. I‟ll be alright"
Brady - "You didn’t do anything wrong bud."
Jastremski - "I know; I’ll be all good"
Does that sound like 2 guys that conspired to cheat the league?
2. This isn't really about football PSI! How do I know that? Because the "other" best QB in the league admitted to regularly over inflating balls even beyond the limit, and the NFL's response? Crickets!!!
Aaron Rodgers - "I like to push the limit to how much air we can put in the football, even go over what they allow you to do and see if the officials take air out of it,'”
Another NFL Super Bowl winning QB admitted he "Bribed" (his words, not mine) for balls to be deflated for Super Bowl. NFL response? More Crickets!!!
Brad Johnson - "I paid some guys off to get the balls right. I went and got all 100 footballs, and they took care of all of them. Seventy-five hundred [dollars]. They took care of them."
This isn't about football. This isn't about Tom Brady. This is a witch hunt. One that the NFL hoped would make people forget about their regrettable decisions on Ray Rice and Adrian Peterson (the cases which they actually had evidence). Oh ya, but then the NFL followed it up but reducing Greg Hardy's suspension to 4 games (the same amount as Tom Brady). So really who knows?
3. So much was wrong with the "evidence". The Colts "tattled" on the Patriots for having an under-inflated ball that supposedly the defensive player that intercepted the ball could tell was half PSI below the limit (COME ON MAN). At half time, 2 referees used 2 different pumps to measure the PSI of the Patriot game balls. These refs "recall" that they measured all the balls before and they were all at 12.5 PSI (pre-game measurements were not recorded only "recalled"). The exact allowed limit. When they measured at half time the balls were between 0.2 PSI and 2 PSI lower than the 12.5 limit depending on which ref or pump was measuring (they were consistently .35 PSI different with no true documentation or control on which ref used which pump which time). So the pumps they used were inconsistent and they based their "baseline" on a "recollection." They went on to measure only 4 of the balls from the Colts, and 1 ref measured 3 of the 4 below the 12.5 legal limit for game ball PSI. Wait 3 of 4 Colts balls that were measured were below the 12.5, but they stopped at only measuring 4? Why? One team accuses the other of cheating, yet that said team was under the limit on 3 of 4 balls, and the refs thought it was a good idea to stop at 4 balls instead of all? WHAT IF 11 of 12 COLTS BALLS WERE UNDER THE LEGAL LIMIT (3 of 4 = 9 of 12? we will never know because the refs decided to stop after 4.
4. This is the statement that the NFL and Brady haters are hanging their hats on? -
Wells Report Conclusion - "it is more probable than not that Tom Brady (the quarterback for the Patriots) was at least generally aware of the inappropriate activities of McNally and Jastremski involving the release of air from Patriots game balls.
You think destroying a phone = Guilty? That statement is someone that just robbed the NFL of millions of dollars to come up with a Bogus report with no real evidence and trying to word it were he can not get sued. Tamir Barkan - "Its more probable than not that Ted Wells had no evidence but was at least generally pressured by the NFL to prove something involving the release of air from Patriots game balls."
VERDICT: NOT GUILTY
Think about the "EVIDENCE." Balls are under the 12.5 PSI limit (Colts balls were under the limit too in the same game). Ball Boy is seen entering the bathroom before the game with the Balls, and Tom Brady didn't give the NFL his cell phone? Haters going to hate. Tom Brady. Fight it till the end!!!
