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NFL Offseason Thread -Tom Brady beats the NFL

2&2 Slider To Leyritz said:
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So Deflategate was a makeup call for Spygate from the good ole commish.
 
YoungBuck95 said:
So Deflategate was a makeup call for Spygate from the good ole commish.
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Key points of OTL/Mag Pats investigation

During Spygate investigation, Roger Goodell ordered NFL execs to stomp 8 videotapes to pieces.
From 2000-07, the Patriots recorded opposing coaches’ signals for at least 40 games.
During Pats early SB runs, a low-level Patriots employee would sneak into visiting locker rooms and steal play sheets during pregame warm-ups.
 
I'm curious how the Pats fans will spin this one. BostonDeac went with apathy, that could be popular.
 
So we get an outcome that makes Goddell and the Pats look bad, but nothing happens to either of them. Great.
 
PhDeac said:
So we get an outcome that makes Goddell and the Pats look bad, but nothing happens to either of them. Great.
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What is it going to take for the owners to recognize that Goodell is plain incompetent at his job and needs a good firing? He botched the DV issue last year and then went into the witness protection program for a couple of months. He's lost most of his court cases and challenges over the last couple of years. Then there were the "independent" Wells investigations in Miami and NE. Now we hear more Pats allegations that have been rumored for years, and the league is changing coach's written statements? Does the league ask folks to make sure to submit their statements in Word form, not as a PDF?
 
Goodell is a fucking genius, dudes. The HOF just inducted a former Patriot player who bashed his skull into other dudes' skulls so many times that his brain mutinied and fucking aborted itself at the age of, like, 40. Wes Welker's brain has pretty clearly been tossed around his skull like a quarter in a goddamn washing machine. Who knows where that dude's life is going? And what are the Patriots-related stories we're talking about right now? Videotaping signals and deflating footballs. That's genius. "Hey! Look over here, motherfuckers!" Perfect magic trick. If Goodell is the blundering fool, or Belichick is a weasily cheating fuckface, then who are the victims? Us and our precious game! The game is something worth protecting instead of a medieval bloodsport that maybe should be abolished. We're its protectors and not the sick fucks watching dudes break their minds and bodies in real time. Kudos, Goodell! Thanks for keeping my eyes on the prize and letting me keep loving football for all the right reasons! #FIREGOODELL #GOEAGLES
 
The NFL will do anything to distract itself from being embarrassed. Am I in college again because this is just rehashing the same stuff that happened almost 10 years ago. Will be interesting what they use to distract everyone from the concussion movie coming out.
 
ThinkingWithMyDeac said:
The NFL will do anything to distract itself from being embarrassed. Am I in college again because this is just rehashing the same stuff that happened almost 10 years ago. Will be interesting what they use to distract everyone from the concussion movie coming out.
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lol they dumbed that thing way down because they didn't want to get lawsuits from the league
 
The Sony hacks revealed that the studio edited the movie to shift blame away from the NFL.
http://www.vox.com/2015/9/2/9246067/concussion-nfl-sony-will-smith

Emails released in the November 2014 Sony hacksshow that studio executives altered the script to placate the league and tried reaching out to league representatives to discuss it. In one email, a Sony lawyer said that "most of the bite" has been taken out of the film "for legal reasons with the N.F.L. and that it was not a balance issue."
Other emails detail the executives' careful crafting of the film, due out Christmas Day, to make it less inflammatory. "Will is not anti football (nor is the movie) and isn’t planning to be a spokesman for what football should be or shouldn’t be but rather is an actor taking on an exciting challenge," wrote Dwight Caines, the president of domestic marketing at Sony Pictures, to studio executives. "We’ll develop messaging with the help of N.F.L. consultant to ensure that we are telling a dramatic story and not kicking the hornet’s nest."
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Sony's neutering of Concussion, though, reaches a new level: It's self-censorship, done preemptively to avoid angering the NFL. The emails revealed the company never actually met with the NFL or showed the league the script. And Sony doesn't have the same sort of direct business ties with the NFL as ESPN does. Still, it edited the film entirely on its own.
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The NFL won't be hurt by it. The film comes out late in the regular season. Americans are more likely to blame individuals than institutions, especially popular ones like the NFL.
 
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