The decision is one thing, guilt is another, that is abundantly clear. Should the NFL disagree with the decision they have the right to file an appeal. Each person has a right to decide for themselves whether they feel Brady is a dirty player or a liar and a cheater based on the facts that have been presented, especially those facts and circumstances that Brady himself has admitted.
You didn't decide that Brady was a dirty player or a liar and a cheater based on the facts that have been presented! You based your beliefs on your dislike of Brady and then hoped that the "facts" presented backed up your beliefs!
That's essentially what the Wells "investigation" did. They started with the premise that the Patriots and Brady by extension were guilty and then went about proving that was the case. Judge Berman had major problems with the Wells Report because it was a FLAWED investigation right from its inception.
First you tell me that you "know" what Brady is thinking because you watch him closely, too closely imo. Then you somehow reached into my mind and are telling me why I make a decision, next you will tell mew is that you are the smartest guy in the room, oh wait you have already told me that.
Brady destroyed his phone based on his and his lawyers admission in open court and the judge recognized that. You are in the minority who think Tom Brady was not at least generally aware of other Patriots employees intentionally releasing air from the team's game balls before the AFC Championship Game.
Nobody has even come CLOSE to proving that anyone from the Patriots did anything other than inflate the balls to the lowest inflation rate allowable under the rules! Was Tom Brady aware that game balls were being prepared that way? Of course. He along with Peyton Manning, Drew Brees and Aaron Rodgers were the ones who petitioned the league to let them play with their own game balls so they would know what to expect when they got a ball hiked to them in the heat of a game! Having balls at the low end of the PSI scale is not illegal. Nor is it illegal if balls subsequently lose air pressure from being taken from a warm official's locker room to a cold and wet playing field. I'm sorry but that's NOT the fault of the Patriots or Tom Brady!
My question has always been (and it remains unanswered)...how did the ball that the Colts had in their possession get to be so much more deflated than any of other game balls? That has always stunk to high heaven to me. The Colts defensive back that made the interception said following the game that he didn't notice anything different about the ball. The game officials handling the different Patriot game balls didn't notice anything different about that ball. Yet when it was given to officials by the Colts coaching staff it was dramatically under inflated? You ASSUME that ball was deflated deliberately by the Patriots under orders from Tom Brady! But you base that assumption on what exactly?
Who stands to gain from having one ball much softer than the others? Tom Brady? How? He's not going to know which ball he's getting until it's snapped to him from the center. There are 12 game balls and on a rainy day (and it was pouring in Foxboro that night) and the officials constantly rotate the balls in and out of the game trying to give the quarterback as dry a ball as they can. Having one ball that much softer than the others wouldn't be an advantage...it would be a disadvantage because it would be one more variable that Brady would have to account for as he's reading the defense and reading the reactions of his receivers to that defense. If it were going to be done to their advantage than EVERY ball would have deflated to about the same pressure.
There is someone who gains from that ball being substantially under inflated of course. The Colts! They are the ones competing against Tom Brady. They are the ones desperate for any advantage they can get against the Patriots. They are the ones in possession of the ONLY ball that was deflated more than you would reasonably expect from a combination of temperature and dampness. So tell me why nobody from the NFL ever questioned the "chain of custody" for that ball? Who on the Colts had it? Where did they take it? Did they measure it themselves before they turned it over to the officials and in the process cause air pressure to lessen?
A "real" investigation would have examined things like that but the Ted Wells Report wasn't a real investigation. He started with a conclusion and was told to gather evidence to support that conclusion while suppressing evidence that didn't support it. After spending millions on that sham of an investigation the best that Wells could come up with is that Brady "might" have known something "generally" about how the balls were deflated! Well you know what, Phallics? I could come to the conclusion that the Colts were the ones who deflated that ball they gave to the referees if I used the same methods that Ted Wells did in putting together his report.
