Tom Brady sacked like never before by Deflategate findings
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/12834679/tom-brady-sacked-never-deflategate-findingsAt the Super Bowl, Patriots owner Robert Kraft expressed his unmitigated faith in Brady and Belichick and demanded an apology from NFL commissioner Roger Goodell in the event the Wells investigation turned up nothing. No, Kraft will not be getting that apology.
He did a lot of shouting about Wells' investigation in a statement released Wednesday, but his most relevant words were found near the end of his angry, five-paragraph response. Kraft took a knee there and said the Patriots "will accept the findings of the report and take the appropriate actions based on those findings as well as any discipline levied by the league."
Brady deserves to be suspended for his actions, and four games sounds about right. You get caught tampering with the equipment and running a flea-flicker on the game's integrity, you have to pay a price.
The good news? Brady gets to keep his fourth Super Bowl ring and his standing among the greatest quarterbacks of all time. He didn't need to cheat to beat the Colts or anyone else, but the evidence says the 199th pick in the 2000 draft -- the long shot out of Michigan who burned to prove everyone wrong -- couldn't resist the urge to seize a competitive edge.
Tom Brady should go ahead and tell his fans the truth about that, the whole truth and nothing but. It would pump up a dynastic career that looks a lot more deflated now than any Patriots game ball.