As I said earlier, while I'm a big admirer and fan of Robert Kraft and everything he has accomplished and represents, I was a a little disappointed with him backing off after allegedly
'hugging it out' with Goodell last Saturday and then the owners' meeting.
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2015/05/now-i-think-just-little-less-of-robert.html
He''s still a great owner but he was almost on a whole new level after he stood by his QB like this. Because usually, owners are expected to sell out their players for the 'good of football'-or in baseball the 'good of baseball.'
But now, I'm with Skip Bayless: Kraft has thrown his QB who won him 4 Super Bowl rings under the bus to please Goodell and some other owners who hate the Patriots anyway and are glad for the chance to somehow 'tarnish' the accomplishments of Brady, Bellichick, and Kraft.
We are hearing a lot of revolting talk of how Kraft is to be admired for putting 'the interests of football' over his own team and QB. I disagree vigorously: he would be more admirable if he had stuck to his guns. How would the game be destroyed if he had appealed his punishment?
Matt Light, though, has a different theory-who has 3 rings he earned while playing with Tom Brady.
"On Wednesday, Light reacted to Kraft’s decision to stand down in his battle with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell over Deflategate penalties, and said he thinks Kraft struck a deal with Goodell to get Tom Brady’s suspension elimated."
“Overall, I don’t think the punishment to the Patriots is a big deal,” Light said Wednesday on Boston Herald radio. “The punishment and how Tommy’s reputation has been tarnished and everything has been called into question, that’s a big deal. So, I would imagine, in the interest of what’s best for the NFL, they looked at each other and said ‘OK let’s hug it out for the camera, let’s go ahead and make this deal that Tommy is going to get nothing,’ because I can’t see it happening any other way. I would be very upset if he had any kind of punishment.”
" ProFootballTalk.com’s Mike Florio also believes Kraft struck a deal with Goodell, although it may not necessarily be tied to Brady’s suspension."
'hugging it out' with Goodell last Saturday and then the owners' meeting.
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2015/05/now-i-think-just-little-less-of-robert.html
He''s still a great owner but he was almost on a whole new level after he stood by his QB like this. Because usually, owners are expected to sell out their players for the 'good of football'-or in baseball the 'good of baseball.'
But now, I'm with Skip Bayless: Kraft has thrown his QB who won him 4 Super Bowl rings under the bus to please Goodell and some other owners who hate the Patriots anyway and are glad for the chance to somehow 'tarnish' the accomplishments of Brady, Bellichick, and Kraft.
We are hearing a lot of revolting talk of how Kraft is to be admired for putting 'the interests of football' over his own team and QB. I disagree vigorously: he would be more admirable if he had stuck to his guns. How would the game be destroyed if he had appealed his punishment?
Matt Light, though, has a different theory-who has 3 rings he earned while playing with Tom Brady.
"On Wednesday, Light reacted to Kraft’s decision to stand down in his battle with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell over Deflategate penalties, and said he thinks Kraft struck a deal with Goodell to get Tom Brady’s suspension elimated."
“Overall, I don’t think the punishment to the Patriots is a big deal,” Light said Wednesday on Boston Herald radio. “The punishment and how Tommy’s reputation has been tarnished and everything has been called into question, that’s a big deal. So, I would imagine, in the interest of what’s best for the NFL, they looked at each other and said ‘OK let’s hug it out for the camera, let’s go ahead and make this deal that Tommy is going to get nothing,’ because I can’t see it happening any other way. I would be very upset if he had any kind of punishment.”
" ProFootballTalk.com’s Mike Florio also believes Kraft struck a deal with Goodell, although it may not necessarily be tied to Brady’s suspension."
“Whether it’s just for future considerations, whether it’s for a Super Bowl in Foxborough at some point in the next decade, whether it’s a wink/nod, ‘Don’t breathe a word of it to anybody but maybe Roger Goodell’s going to reduce Tom Brady‘s suspension’ type of a promise, there’s got to be something,” Florio said on WEEI’s Dennis and Callahan show Wednesday. “Because you don’t pivot that quickly.
http://www.boston.com/sports/football/patriots/2015/05/20/matt-light-says-robert-kraft-cut-deal-with-nfl-overturn-tom-brady-suspension/nbjXjGeyPOadjf2LnbqeyM/story.html
If he got something then I feel better about it. But if Kraft got nothing I don't respect this genuflecting in front of Goodell as the physical embodiment of 'the good of the game.' It should be something for Brady-not this nonsense about a Foxborough Super Bowl.
Some feel that Brady has to get something.
"Florio also told “Dennis and Callahan” that he’s not sure Goodell and the NFL would be willing to eliminate Brady’s suspension entirely, as the public outside of New England would take issue with such a move. “For now they’re dealing with one very angry fan base,” Florio said. “If they would cut it to zero, they would be dealing with somewhere between one and 31 other angry fan bases. I don’t think it’s going to be cut to zero for that reason.”
He may be right, though, I'm not a Patriot fan-Giants, of course-and I'd prefer it be eliminated entirely. I don't want to concede anything to Brady haters who get to say 'Yeah, but he's a cheater' as if the reason he's won 4 SBs is because of air pressure.
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