Just to add to this, You're handling the ball what 50-60 times a game & as a veteran QB you can't feel the difference in the ball.? From what I'm hearing & reading even his fellow QBs around the league are not buying it. I mean seriously Tom, don't piss on our heads & then tell us its raining out.
Heard that, Aikman went on to say the the equipment manager takes his orders & gets approval from the teams QBs
...yeah, that's what I was laughing at...only New Englanders believe Bill and Tom. ...we still don't know the whole story but to me their comments and body language in their news pressers don't support them.
Only the NFL is buying that nonsense. Had this story not been broken the NFL would have done absolutely nothing about this, heck they still might do nothing about it. Zero integrity.
^^^I dunno...like I said, Goodell has had a horrible year PR-wise so he might be pressured by the other owners to do something. ...I wonder what the possibility is that Brady was actually the one who secretly orchestrated this with the equipment guy, and Belichick either looked the other way or really didn't know about it?... Just spitballing. ...if they were innocent I'd think they'd be joking about it and have more of an upbeat attitude...but to me, they both had more of a "doomed" look.
This will be the 1st Super Bowl, of every single one played, which I will not see. I will be moving, may be offline for a few or more days, gotta' switch from Hughes.net to the Evil Empire TWB-C. Then again, I can't stand Carroll or Belidick, so it won't much matter. The only 2 coaches in the NFL, I loathe, well, there could be a couple more, to the mix....
Lived in Massachusetts on a couple of occasions, been my experience that those people up there are clannish to the nines.
Brady should've come clean. He basically tried to have you believe he really doesn't even handle the ball that much during the game. Nobody is doing a damn thing with a ball in New England without Brady's approval. Sadly the NFL will so nothing because after an "extensive" investigation it will be impossible to prove who got to the balls and why. Claims from previous teams is all hearsay unless they were able to obtain balls from those games. When it boils down to getting lawyers involved it will boil down to not having enough evidence to pin this on anybody. Not unless a ball boy specifically comes forward and says Tom Brady told me to do this.
The real problem is that Goodell is a complete coward. Runs and goes into hiding with every controversy. Has his underlings make all the statements. You have the biggest game of your seas on coming up. Show some balls and get out in front of this thing. Stern for years in the NBA, Bettman in the NHL and Selig never acted like this guy. His arrogance is disturbing.
