Claire

Did I forget to say that JJ is a HOTTIE!!!!!

LOVE YOU JJ!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You are joking, right? This is a professional sports team. You get a paycheck. It's not a slippery slope. This is not the boy scouts. You play by the rules. When you break the rules you get fined and punished because it is a PROFESSIONAL SPORTS LEAGUE. What do Ray Rice's personal issues have to do with the rules of the game or the integrity of the sport? Professionalism? Whether an individual player has domestic violence issues or suffers from alcoholism that doesn't impact an organization's stand on fair play, integrity, or professionalism or abiding by the rules of the league. Ngata was different. His punishment was suspension from games and loss of pay because he did impact the integrity of the game. He broke a specific NFL rule. He knows lying doesn't work with the Ravens. He was honest. Integrity is a value for the Ravens organization. That's why he spoke his truth and took it like a man. He lost his paychecks. What world do you live in ...?

But you yourself just admitted that there is "no certain measurement for the quantity/quality of information". You neglected to copy everything that I wrote, that is why you did not comprehend it. His act of not cooperating by not doing what was asked of him is NOT cooperating PERIOD. He was asked to CHOOSE what he would give them... he wasn't asked to hand over the phone. Brady could CHOOSE which text and email messages. He chose to give none because he felt they would be skeptical anyway. That was his reasoning. They interpret that as not cooperating. YOU may see it differently because you are obviously smitten by him. You are like the husband who has to actually catch the wife in bed with the boyfriend. Everyone else sees the cheating for years, but the hubby is last to know LOL. It's okay. You got it bad. I have nevwer seen so many men come to a player's defense like I have for Brady. I swear he has more men who have fallen for him than women. LOL No, they do not have Brady's text and email messages. They only have the 2 men's messages. There are more, however as previously stated Brady chose not to cooperate by giving them HIS text and email messages related to this topic because he felt they would be skeptical about any text and email messages he gave to them. "In the statement you quoted by Florio, he didn't mentioned any of the things you said he did." I don't know what you mean by this statement. Who is "he didn't mention the thing that I said he did"? You posted that specifically to show how Florio basically thinks that the NFL gets what it wants all the time, What? You make assumptions, but they are not fact, so this is confusing because I have no idea what you mean. Please stick what is actually written. "...as in when they want a piece of evidence or what somebody to provide that for them, they get it. I, logically, stated that this was false, and that Florio probably knows that its false." Just because you claim something, that doesn't mean it's logical. You have to provide the "logic" behind your thinking. You just make emotional statements. You don't include facts. It's obvious this is a very emotional topic for you.

I do blame the Patriots for Brady's cheating. Obviously the organization didn't make clear to him the last time they got caught cheating that integrity matters. They didn't make clear to him that the rules apply to Patriots players. He doesn't understand that winning is meaningless if you don't play by the same rules as all of the other professionals. He doesn't understand that if all of the other QBs don't get to inflate the footballs to their desired psi rates, then he knowingly has an advantage. That is unethical and the Patriots have not instilled in him in over 10 years that unenthical play is not accpetable to their organization. They have failed to instill the values of fair play and professionalism into their longest playing team member. A team captain - a leader on the team too. Really, really poor reflection of the organization.

"That's all well and good, but I doubt not providing the NFL with private information (such as text messages and emails) is sufficient enough to classify him as "not cooperating". Yes, it is, there no certain measurement for the amount or "quanitity of information/data" that needs to be withheld to be construed as conduct detrimental to the league. Just the simple fact that he will not cooperate with the investigation is enough. They don't want players to be able to say,"Well Brady never turned over information," in future investigations. What are the other instances where Brady did not coperate that we already knew about? Mike Florio has not been wrong in MOST cases. I think you are over overgeneralizing. I'm not sure what you are responding to, as I didn't write anything about what the punishment would be nor did Florio. His point was how the NFL interprets not providing them with information during investigations. Nothing has been written about the player's assoication.

Are any of the organizations you mentioned repeat offenders? Is there any historical pattern of cheating in any of the franshises listed? I think that may impact the Commissioner's decision. To me the Pats seem to not care about punishments. Fines and drafts pics are meaningless to them. Their response seems to be, "we'll just find another way to skirt the rules, because the league rules don't matter to us." Brady was on the team the last time they were involved in a cheating scandal. The last punishment didn't have any impact at all.

The reason that Brady's agent didn't give the text and email messages that Wells wanted so that they could get as much information as possible for the investigation was, "...any information we would have provided, and the Wells investigative team did ask us to go through Tom's phone ON OUR OWN and provide them with information if we chose to go that route. But as you might surmise if we would have chosen to go that route, any information we would have given them, they probably would have had skepticism about anyway." So rather than there be some skepticism, they chose to give nothing. I guess that would eliminate any skepticisim. Not sharing that information is Brady's choice. Of course what people don't understand is that when your employer is the NFL, that is a deterimental move. Not cooperating with the investigation is considered conduct detrimental to the league and that could exacerbate any punishments for Brady. Also, as PFT's Mike Florio writes, while the NFL doesn't have subpoena power, it does have "absolute employment power over all players. Whatever it requests as part of its investigation, the NFL gets. If the NFL doesn't get it, a separate basis for discipline arises."

I will never part with my #20 jersey. It's a prize to me just like Ed Reed will always be a prize to Ravens Nation. Long live #20!

The kid did a spectacular job given that this is his 2nd year in the nfl. Outstanding composure, no big mistakes, some great passes and conversions on third down. His first year in the league his team goes to the playoffs and the 2nd he wins a SB, the kids deserves a million compliments. He will continue to grow and improve. I know Ben R. won in his 2nd year also, what other QBs have won in the 2nd year? I think there are 7-8 others.

Now that's what I call whining fans.

The NFL does a pretty good job of mixing it up and trying to please their broad audience of viewers. Since the Janet Jackson "incident" they tried to appeal to an older audience with Paul McCartney, the Rolling Stones, The Who, and Bruce Springsteen.

Still, it's hard to believe how easy the Seahawks are making it look to defeat them. They are outstanding. Russell Wilson is amazing for a 2nd year QB... to take his team to the SB alone is incredible.

Watching Denver, it's hard to believe how tough it was for the Ravens to beat them in the playoffs and that they beat us this year. They The Seahawks are making them look awful. In this first half Russell Wilson looked very poised for being in the NFL for 2 years. Incredible.