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Florio has just tweeted that it's a 4 year extension: ProFootballTalk ‏@ProFootballTalk Per source, Russell Wilson deal is indeed a four-year extension; he's under contract for five years, at $89.1 million. So, the Seahawks made out big. He's not even close to Rogers in terms of $$/year. So basically Russell Wilson's deal is: 5 years, $89.1m at $17.8m per year. That puts him 11th, just ahead of Matthew Stafford.

Jeremy White just Periscoped the walk to the WGR tent at St. John Fisher. Pumped!

I'm sure it could pull some ideas from his "cut Marcel" column as well.

From the NFL Compliance plan: Investigation. Reports of suspected violations will be investigated under the supervision of a Compliance Officer utilizing other NFL resources, including Human Resources or the Security Department, when necessary. Employees are expected to cooperate in the investigation of reported violations and to provide all information and materials as requested. Edit: The Compliance plan was sent out July 2014

Right and they just adopted a new Personel Condict Policy in December 2014. The ball deflation happened a month later. Edit: not to mention the NFL Compliance policy that bandit linked to that came out in July 2014.

If it the arguement of some that because no one has been suspended for this before that Brady shouldn't be suspended? To that I say, no player was ever suspended for violating the personal conduct of the league until the league wrote the policy and suspended the first player. Should he have not been suspended because no player was before?

Which is what I said earlier in the thread. There isn't precedent until someone is actually suspended for it. But the counter argument for that is maybe the NFL hadn't defined specifically what kind of punishment this would receive. Then again, the NFL has always been relatively vague at what infractions will get what suspensions. Not only that the new Player Personal Conduct Policy spells is out even more. Which only took effect in December 2014. So again, none of these others cases apply to Bradys.

The problem with the Tagliabue statement is there isn't a record of past suspension until there's a record of a suspension. There wasn't a record of suspending players for violating the personal conduct policy until the personal conduct policy was instituted in 1997.

The new Personal Conduct Policy, which includes conduct detrimental to the league, only came into effect in December 2014. Goodell see's not cooperating with the league in an investigation as such. So the Bountycase really has no bearing, as it was pre new Personal Conduct Policy. It states: "The league has increased education regarding respect and appropriate behavior, has provided resources for all employees to assist them in conforming their behavior to the standards expected of them, and has made clear that the league's goal is to prevent violations of the Personal Conduct Policy. In order to uphold our high standards, when violations of this Personal Conduct Policy do occur, appropriate disciplinary action must follow." Now it doesn't say what's appropriate, but it certainly states that conduct detrimental to the league is punishable. I suppose the argument would be is not cooperating with an investigation considered conduct detrimental.

They showed it live on NFL, it was classic.

From his twitter feed, he's definitely in law... just judging by what he has tweeted about. Edit... looks like he's filed in the same court as NFL. The Barrister ‏@theycallmedubs He may get judgment on the merits before season, but I'm still waiting on a summary judgment decision for motion I filed in SDNY in 2013.

The Barrister ‏@theycallmedubs This is just a guess, but given what I know about Judge Berman, Brady's chance of preliminary injunction just went from 40% to 5%.

Alan Branch fails his conditioning test... again

I mean he dismissed a case the NY Civil Liberties Union tried to bring to court.

So were those FG's or extra points? #TrainingCampDrama

Well that's pretty huge: Ian Rapoport ‏@RapSheet RT @dkaplanSBJ: Minnesota judge has ordered this morning the NFLPA lawsuit over Brady b transferred to Manhattan, where the NFL first filed

I wouldn't be surprised to see a settlement.

To the first part of this, all of that doesn't matter. The NFLPA can point to equipment violations and say these don't carry suspensions because they weren't collectively bargained. Great. Well then they go on to say that those actions can be "conduct detrimental". Guess what? That is a suspendible offense. You can't make the argument that because equipment violation hasn't been collectively bargain to be suspendible offense, but conduct detrimental has, that one overrides the other. I mean, you could make that case, but it doesn't make sense. Second. Goodell already has addressed this in a letter to the NFLPA before Brady's appeal: “I did not delegate my disciplinary authority to Mr. Vincent; I concurred in his recommendation and authorized him to communicate to Mr. Brady the discipline imposed under my authority as Commissioner.” So I guess the NFLPA's case rests on liar, liar pants on fire. How could they possible prove that Goodell actually delegated authority? Was there some secret ceremony? Maybe there's a letter or a text message(unless he destroyed his phone)? I doubt it though, the NFL has been very thorough in this case.

Mumble, mumble, mumble, maybe you should check your notes, mumble, mumble.

What's new, besides the childish remarks by Yee?

Oh boy, you gave him all the phone numbers he had contact with. Maybe if your client, you know, didn't destroy his phone on the day of a meeting with an NFL investigator you could have provided the actual texts. Oh wait. Under your legal consul you choose not to cooperate fully.

The ball boy refused to give it over. The Chargers as an organization cooperated and accepted the penalty. They aren't similar at all. They would be similar if the ball boy denied doing anything wrong. He then refused to cooperate with the investigation. The Chargers denied all wrong doing. The ball boy smashed his cell phone. EDIT: The whole Charger infraction was wrapped up rather quickly because they admitted guilt.

The sticky towels the Chargers were using weren't banned at the time. They just weren't allowed to be used on the actual balls. The punishment, in the end, was for not complying with an official when the ball boy was asked to.

Hahaha.

Kraft is retarded. http://www.boston.com/sports/football/patriots/2015/05/20/roger-goodell-addresses-deflategate-nfl-meetings/la1eiGXWGHdam5wBUfRfKP/story.html “The decision that Robert [Kraft] made was his decision,” Goodell said. “I admire and respect Robert as you well know. We’ve had plenty of discussions over the last couple of weeks. This was his initiative and something he wanted to do. And I certainly admire the step he took. We may disagree on things, but that’s not unusual. That happens.” When asked if Kraft’s decision would affect Brady’s appeal and his hearing of it, Goodell simply replied, “No.”