That was my sentiment. If the Cowboys are legitimate front runners this year this game will validate it early.I wanted Brady in week 4 anyway. I wanted them at full....
I immediately started adjusting the air in footballs for my QBs when I learned of this.And you know what's really comical about all of this?
Over the last decade or so the NFL has gone out of its way to create new rules to generate more offense and give QBs every advantage possible. Yet here they are punishing a team for deflating the ball a little just because it gives the QB a little more grip.
That was my sentiment. If the Cowboys are legitimate front runners this year this game will validate it early.
So what prevents teams from doing any rule bending?Essentially overturned because there was no precendent and no collectively bargained-for standard to impose a four game suspension for cheating.
If you think you are the best then you want to meet the best. That's what my era taught me in sports competition.
Shots fired.Statement from the NFLPA-
This decision should prove, once and for all, that our Collective Bargaining Agreement does not grant this Commissioner the authority to be unfair, arbitrary and misleading.
So they denied Brady's representatives access to all the known pertinent information (the discovery) of the case. I can't believe Goodell and his cronies actually thought this was a fair process.Among the problems identified by Judge Berman are those that relate to Brady’s arbitration hearing with Goodell on June 23. Goodell denied a request by NFLPA attorneys to question NFL general counsel Jeffrey Pash, who edited the Wells Report before its release, and to access the league’s investigative notes. Judge Berman regarded Goodell’s decisions on these issues as preventing Brady from enjoying a credible opportunity to make his case. Look at it this way: if Brady can’t confront an accuser and study the evidence used to punish him, how can he effectively defend against the accuser’s accusations and the implicating evidence? Judge Berman stressed that denial of access to key witnesses can be grounds to vacate an arbitration award.
I don't know if they have a right to attorney work product.From on article on SI.com as to why the suspension was overturned:
So they denied Brady's representatives access to all the known pertinent information (the discovery) of the case. I can't believe Goodell and his cronies actually thought this was a fair process.
The judge seems to think so. I'm not talking about the attorney's personal notes but I'm assuming he's talking about evidence that the league came across was not shared with the NFLPA attorneys.I don't know if they have a right to attorney work product.
Maybe so. My non-lawyered reading of the decision was that the issue was that the NFL had access and the NFLPA didn't. Berman referred to the Wells Report as the Wells\Pash Report and repeatedly put "independent" in quotes whenever referring to the report. I don't read a lot of legal rulings, but to me that reads as the judge calling their investigation a sham. It just didn't have anything relevant to do with the appeal so he didn't address it directly.I don't know if they have a right to attorney work product.
Such an easy thing not to fuck up.The main issue is the same thing that forced Taglibue to overturn the BountyGate case: lack of notification. Goodell just keeps repeating the same mistakes over and over. I guess the owners will put up with it as long as they are making money, but the man is not good for the league