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			But he wouldn't have helped them. I hate Roger just as much as the next guy. But I'm siding with him on this. Tommy boy did something everyone in the league does. But he tried too hard to cover it up. If he would have sat down, explained he did something every kicker and QB does, he would have got a small fine and it would be over with. But he lied. Just like head hunting fines double, the pats have been caught already for cheating. I do think four games is extreme. But Tom got fucked for lying and got fucked by timing. Everyone knows the NFL is getting out of control. Roger is doing the same thing I do as a teacher early in a classroom. I pick out the cool kid when he messes up and I make an example. I show the power I have. Tom should be out but not for four games. The dude is guilty. His crime doesn't matter, his lying does
		
		
	 
Yikes, talk about making a lot of assumptions with zero evidence to back it up. You have no idea what Brady would have done if they'd asked him the get the records. If they did, and he said no, it's hard to justify that as cooperating with the investigation, and hard to spin that to make himself look innocent, and that's all the NFL really want, anyway. Instead, Goodell and the NFL look like clowns for spreading the "he ordered his phone to be destroyed" bullshit.
Has it crossed your mind that maybe Brady and his team are fighting this so hard because 
he didn't do it? It seems to me like all those lawyers Tom is paying a lot of money to would have been able to tell him to just fess up if he did do it to lessen the punishment, but none of them did. At every corner the NFL has looked less and less credible, to the point where I'm honestly starting to believe Tom did nothing wrong. Yes, I'm a Pats fan, but when the story did first come out I assume he did do it because everybody does, it's common practice, and nobody thinks it's a big deal. It was alway clear that Goodell decided he just wanted to get Tom and the Pats and so went after him about PSI because he knows Tom and every other QB in the league messes with it and it would be a simple thing to catch him for, but I figured he probably did break the rules. But now, I honestly don't know, to the point where I'm leaning in believing that Brady did literally nothing wrong. I dunno, I look at everything that's happened, and all of it points, logically, at Tom having done nothing wrong, and the NFL grasping at straws, to the point where they're so desperate they're now resorting to coming up with untrue, sensationalist news headlines to try to rile people up and distract from the fact that the NFL still hasn't come up with a shred of evidence that Brady broke any rules. You add to that the fact that Goodell has been known to do questionably ethical things in the past while Tom is, well, Tom, and I feel much more inclined to him than Goodell and the shit-infested pit that the NFL is becoming. Honestly, I feel bad I ever doubted Tom in the first place. He's earned the benefit of the doubt, and I didn't give it to him. My new stance is that If he says he didn't do it, I believe he didn't do it.