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In response to
"Dan Marino and Troy Aikman basically said that there's a snowball's chance in hell that Brady was not involved."
by
Shaun
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You can think he broke a rule, think that rule is stupid, and think that the NFL is inept and overly penalizing for that rule break.
Posted by
Will Hunting (aka JoeMetz)
May 13 '15, 12:02
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There's a lot in this situation that boils down to a massive over-reaction to a rule that just about every QB has tried to get around in some form.
Hell, a Super Bowl was won by a QB who admits he cheated doing this. Two teams were warned last year about warming up footballs in cold weather against league rules. It's a rule that at best, is begging to be broken given the NFL has no oversight apparently.
This entire sting exercise was a joke for numerous reasons. Multiple gauges, the ref not certain which he used, not pulling the altered balls until halftime...
Brady's guilty of going 65 in a 55 zone, which for most offenders is a warning if not a tiny fine. Not a suspended license for 3 months. Even in sports terms, it's 4x as much as merited based on mainpulating baseballs which is an 8-12 games (or roughly 1/16th of the season).
The NFL uses past history to nail Brady, but Brady didn't do Spygate, that was Hoodie...who is expressly *not* guilty in this instance based on the NFL's own report.
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Every team should be scared shitless by this heavy-handed punishment becuase god forbid if their team does something ticky-tack wrong.
The entire concept of justice is proportional punishment for proportional crimes...and this crime is not this severe.
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