March 4, 201610 yr Amid multiple accounts that the three judges went harder after Brady’s lawyer, Jeff Kessler, than they against the league’s lawyers, Tom Curran of CSN New England says bluntly that Kessler “took it on the chin.” At one point, Judge Denny Chin said that the evidence of tampering with footballs was “compelling, if not overwhelming,” and that there was evidence to support the belief that Brady “knew about it, consented to it, encouraged it.” Chin, frankly, is right; the texts exchanged by John Jastremski and Jim McNally suggest that something improper was happening generally, and Brady’s ill-advised evasiveness when testifying before Commissioner Roger Goodell could be construed as a superficial effort to conceal the possibility that Brady wanted the footballs to be below 12.5 PSI by declining to admit the obvious reality that Brady wanted the footballs to be inflated at the low end of the permissible spectrum. Curran chimes in, says Brady’s lawyer “took it on the chin” | ProFootballTalk
March 9, 201610 yr Author Poll finds few Americans believe Tom Brady on Deflategate When Tom Brady was asked if he’s a cheater in the early days of Deflategate, he answered, “I don’t believe so.” Most Americans don’t believe him. A scientific survey of American opinion on Deflategate, conducted for Yahoo Sports, found that just 16.3 percent of Americans said they believe Brady and the Patriots when they say they did not intentionally deflate footballs in the AFC Championship Game last year. A plurality, 43.4 percent, said they don’t know who to believe, while 40.3 percent said they believe the NFL’s findings that Brady cheated. In the New England area, those answers are very different: 58 percent believe the Patriots, just 18.7 percent believe the NFL, and 23.3 percent don’t know. The poll found that nationwide, Brady fared better among women than men. Brady and the NFL are still waging legal battle over the league’s attempt to suspend him for four games over Deflategate. Brady went to court and had his four-game suspension overturned last year, but the NFL is still attempting to get the suspension reinstated. Poll finds few Americans believe Tom Brady on Deflategate | ProFootballTalk
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