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Tanking sounds horrible. How many teams tank and then have a good year after besides Colts? We're on to Cincinnati.

Hmmm...Blaming the Patriots for stuff is getting old. But it seems like they just keep doing stuff. Whatever. They're so far in the red this has no impact on my opinion of the team regardless of why he got more time.

The video doesn't show if he had the full 40 seconds.

I've said before, I was behind the Patriots as recently as a year (or 2) ago. Aaron's arrest took away my hometown pride in them, and then they pulled the eligible receiver shenanigans on my favorite team. Then deflate gate. Didn't follow football during spygate, so I didn't care much for that because it seemed they were way past it. Fool me once...

Because (they would argue) those other teams haven't been as successful recently. We're all just jelly.

A Patriots fan's breakdown of where the errors are. Some I hadn't already noticed. Do the Patriots still seem to hang onto the ball exceptionally well? Yes. Were they accused recently of deflating footballs? Yes.

This is the only remaining interesting part to me. I honestly don't care what comes of Brady's suspension. If Bill possesses anti-fumbling aura, the rates should stay the same.

Do you feel that way because you've compared to other teams? I'm just curious. If you could mention 16 teams who have done better (ball park estimates perhaps, not necessarily in depth with player analysis) I could decide for myself how true that is. 17th out of 32 teams would be below average and I find it hard to believe we are there. But I have doubts that you are just trolling and maybe I can be wrong.

Who are the better GM's to you in recent years? There's gotta quite a few in mind to convince yourself that we've been drafting badly.

Thanks for that lolThis team is just fine. Seriously count the blessings for once.

The overreaction in here lol. It's preseason.

I'm interested to see where that trend goes now... 2 or 3 years from now.

You say this, they say that. But in the end, isn't it still possible Brady is being punished for a reason? It's harder for me to believe that Goodell did all of this just because he hates Brady and the Patriots.As for the plays I'm referring to, a large amount of the success that they had resulted from bad officiating. If I couldn't say that was true, I'd have no complaints. This is the reason they changed the rule. Also, I believe it was tried against the Colts and it was a penalty even before the revision. Wish we had that luxury, but alas.

Knowing Patriots got away with a now illegal set of plays to beat our Ravens and then snickering about it makes it hard for me to feel bad for the guy. That is not the person I enjoy being around, or in this case enjoy supporting. In a sense of karma catching up to him, I'm glad that this headache went to him and not somebody else. In the past, maybe 1.5 years ago at some New Year's Eve party I remember I (drunkenly) told my Patriots fan friend that I think Brady deserves another Super Bowl because I genuinely thought he was a good guy who beat the odds and climbed to the top. Playoffs this year has changed that for me. One thing for certain is that he is not the humble winner I once thought he was. I'm also probably more of a noob than most here - didn't follow football during spygate. My opinion on Brady's deserving of this WOULD change if I see something that clears his name. I don't intend on reading too many pages of content to validate my opinion until it's all said and done and everything that's out there is everything we'll get. As of right now I ask myself: Would I destroy my cell phone if I was innocent? Would I lie at the podium about knowing these guys? As a non-Patriots fan, I get all the debate you Patriots fans try to bring up. You're a successful team with your integrity in question. However, don't assume we all just want to see you sink. I only want that to happen if he is indeed at fault. If innocent, I root for my team to squash Tom Baby instead of Tom Br*dy.

it's all in the tl;dr category too Hand in the texts or enjoy your asterisk I say!

I swear my Pats fan buddy would argue this is just as bad as eligible receiver deception.

The ruling does not matter at all to me. The only thing Brady can do to remove my self imposed asterisk (as many others do as well) is to provide his text messages exchanged with those 2 guys. If he truly is innocent, that's what he should be willing to do. I'd do it in a heartbeat if it clears anything up.

I'll take a ticket. Place your parameters Sami. It almost seems you're looking forward to him failing just to be right, so it's only fair we have a line so we can tell you if you're wrong.

If it was likely another car that was struck, why is there no second damaged vehicle? Perhaps an agreement between the victim and Spikes? I see no other reasonable explanation that whatever he hit would vanish and have no immediate ties to this situation.

Might as well, all the cool kids in town are doing it.

I don't think that was the point of the post (to say lock him up right now). He is certainly very stupid. I believe he'll get what he deserves in the end.

Depth at cornerback sounds wonderful.

I wonder if this could translate into more injuries :/

Yup, never going to see the organization as anything besides until both Brady and Belichick are gone.

Thanks!