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Tom Brady made 'generous' offer to settle Deflategate, NFL shot him down

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Tom Brady made 'generous' offer to settle Deflategate, NFL shot him down

 

If you've been keeping track at home, then you probably already know that Deflategate has been dominating NFL headlines for more than 16 months now.

It didn't have to be that way, though: According to NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith, Deflategate could've ended a long time ago.

During a recent interview on the Dan Patrick Show, Smith revealed that Tom Brady tried to end Deflategate by making an "incredibly generous" settlement offer to the NFL, but the league shot him down.

"Tom, I think, made a great offer to settle these cases," Smith said. "The league didn't want to do it because he refused to throw his trainers under the bus. Look, Tom's a stand-up guy, and I think that he made a settlement offer to resolve this, the league chose not to take it, and that's where we are."

The obvious question here is: What exactly was Brady's offer?

Unfortunately, we'll probably never know because Smith wasn't willing to divulge anything specific about Brady's proposed settlement.

"I don't want to go into details, but it was an incredibly generous offer to resolve this," Smith said.

Smith was also vague about why the league turned Brady's offer down.

"The league asked for something that no man should agree to do," Smith said.

One other thing that's not exactly clear is when Brady his "incredibly generous" offer. If it was any time in the past few months, then it's not a shock at all that the NFL turned it down. Roger Goodell made it clear in April that there would be no settlement talks following the failed talks that took place in the summer of 2015.

Settlement or not, Smith just wants Deflategate to end.

"Isn't it a strange world: We just got through the draft, we're going into OTAs, it's 2016 and we're talking about the first half of the AFC Championship game two years ago," Smith said.

The end should be coming soon since Brady's running out of legal options. On May 23, Brady filed an appeal for a second hearing by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. If the court grants his en banc appeal, then it will re-hear the case and Brady would have to get seven of the 13 judges to side with him.

If the second hearing isn't granted, Brady would then have one final option: The Patriots quarterback could try to take his case to the Supreme Court.

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Generous offer my A$$...... Perpetrators of wrongdoing do NOT get to negotiate their punishment. That's absolute and total stupidity. You get told what your punishment is and you deal with it. Did Bob Kraft get to negotiate his punishment for deflategate? Did Bill Bellichick get to negotiate his own punishment after spygate? Did any of the New Orleans Saints coaches get to negotiate their punishment for bounty gate? Whoever this author is, he's passing off Brady's behavior as 'acceptable'. The author is as big a sh*thead as Brady is.

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3 minutes ago, bostonmajet said:

It was reported here in Boston that the generous offer didn't include any suspension, and that he would speak out about cooperating; not sure how generous it truly was.

That;s a joke. If anything was generous it was the NFL's tepid 4-game suspension. The guy should have gotten somewhere between a full season and a lifetime ban,

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LOL he's a stand up guy and he just tried to bribe his way out of getting caught cheating.  Double LOL he refuses to throw his training guys under the bus.  Well maybe becasue the moment he or the pats do anything of the sort they will sing like canaries.  These guys are slimier than a villain in a Charles Dickens novel.

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What a buffoon.

But it COULD have gone away. Just admit what you did, apologize and say it won't happen again. Fined and done, not to be talked about again. Pretty simple.

Instead, you chose the cowardly, whiny, unaccountable path. 

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1 hour ago, JetPotato said:

What a buffoon.

But it COULD have gone away. Just admit what you did, apologize and say it won't happen again. Fined and done, not to be talked about again. Pretty simple.

Instead, you chose the cowardly, whiny, unaccountable path. 

^This

Tom Brady created his very own monster. He has no one else to blame except himself.  

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By dragging this out Brady is destroying his own legacy. I say keep it up Tom, I'm sure Belichick will find more creative ways to cheat that don't throw you under the bus because I'm 100 % sure this was Belichick's Idea to keep his fumbling RB's from giving the ball away the stats obviously show it and Belichick could give 2 sh*ts about anyone but himself as long as his cheating keeps producing SB caliber teams. This was not about Brady throwing the football he threw it just fine his entire career this was about the fumbling problem and nothing else.

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19 hours ago, Dcat said:

more nonsense from the privileged Tom Brady.  

Will always be remembered as a cheat, a liar, a baby, a whiner along with his asterisks.

Hey. He made a generous offer...very generous.

Since when is the NFL a democracy, and how in the world does Tom Brady think of himself as an equal with the commissioner?

Sounds like a bribe to me and I would have added two games to the suspension. 

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4 hours ago, JiF said:

Biggest frauds in the history of sports continue to embarrass themselves. 

I heard Tom is training with his idol this offseason:

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I would be reluctant to call his sucking on Lance's sole remaining testicle as "training".

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On 6/1/2016 at 0:37 PM, Jet Fan RI said:

"I don't want to go into details, but it was an incredibly generous offer to resolve this," Smith said.

Brady wouldn't have to make "generous" offers to resolve the issue if he had only complied with the commissioner in the first place. No one is even the least bit concerned about deflated freaking football's anymore. It is ALL about Brady thumbing his nose at the most powerful man in sports. Take your deserved suspension and shut up about it you little pu$$y.

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