My Late Reaction to Deflategate Fallout
By Andre Menice
Some late Deflategate thoughts before the beginning of New England Patriots training camp.
Sorry, I’ve been entrenched in an eight week Calculus course and haven’t been able to do anything with my time that wasn’t interrelated to the course. That’s all through with now and I have a late reaction I’d like to share with you about the fallout of the Deflategate saga.
“I picture them all as jealousy ridden high school girls, envious of the cheerleading captain.”
As much as I would like to blame Roger Goodell for everything, I can’t. If you sit back and just analyze his position in the league, he is nothing more than a puppet for the 32 owners. A representative of the owners with absolute power. These guys cut him checks to go out there into the public and state their demands while they sit back in shadows out of the public eye and scrutiny. Goodell keeps all the heat off of the owners for the decisions they would like to make and gets paid handsomely to do so.
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Think back to the Ray Rice domestic violence saga, think about the tapes. I personally believe Goodell saw them. I also believe Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti saw
them and lobbied Goodell for the initial two game suspension. But it was Goodell that got thrown into the mob for a public execution.
So it is not out of the question to think that the other 31 owners were in Goodell’s ear, lobbying for Brady to be executed for the air pressure in footballs. Why wouldn’t they? The Patriots have been one of most successful franchises of all time, and their run isn’t over. Of course anyone with the power to, would try to derail that success when given the opportunity. I picture them all as jealousy ridden high school girls, envious of the cheerleading captain. Why else would they go against science and reason? I mean the NFL didn’t even release their “findings” on ball pressure, which leads me to believe that the findings didn’t help them find anything that backed their case. If released, this would just cause everyone to, again, question: “What is going on with the NFL?” Meanwhile I picture them all reacting like this once Brady announced he was done.
As far as it concerns the Patriots and Tom Brady now, I believe Brady would have fought this to the death and, deep down inside, would have rather took this to the Supreme Court than to accept the punishment. My feeling is that his lawyers advised him that he had little chance of winning this case from a labor standpoint so he thought about everything and realized if he kept on with this case, he could be suspended for the last four games instead of the first, or even worst, the playoffs. The first quarter of the season is usually when the Patriots are still trying to figure themselves out, it’s not until November when they really start to put the rubber to the road and get going in gear.
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A suspension either way is not ideal but at least with this way, they get to see what they really have in Garoppolo and hopefully showcase him to the other 20 + teams that need a quarterback. Hopefully he performs great and we can trade with someone, say San Francisco,
for a second round pick. Then we can sit back and thank the other 31 owners for giving us the opportunity to showcase the young QB while we draft more weapons/protection for Brady from a higher pool of talent, keeping us relevant even longer. Then after the suspension, Brady comes back on fire like Jordan did in 1995, lighting the rest of the league up.
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As much as I’d rather be sitting here, typing about how the league should drop the suspension and give us the 29th pick in this years draft and reinstate our fourth rounder this year, I am glad this is over. While I feel science and reason back Brady’s innocence, I could not think of a more nonsensical football topic that could engulf the NFL like this did. Here’s to the 2017 run, let’s set the league ablaze.
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