Sounds like an embarrassed news source covering its hindquarters. They thought their first source was credible.
Did the media care about credible sources reporting or evidence during Deflategate?
I don't know what they did or didn't do behind the scenes or are or aren't doing or why. Maybe the embarrassment they've suffered with Brady is making them shy of digging in.
Wouldn't that be convenient.
I do. If he did and anything comes up that proves it he should suffer the consequences and embarrassment that come with it. I might be sympathetic to a guy late in his career, looking to sustain his career, but it wouldn't change the result.
Sympathetic, absolutely, and I think it's rotten he had to go overseas to seek treatment not available here.
Well, more than that. They heard the guy who made the accusation recant publicly and no one else has stepped forward to make it.
They have another source, they keep reporting on it, and the American press is loath to keep poking at this. Nobody's even asking
if he used; they're simply taking his denial as gospel. Where's a single torch or pitchfork?
I think with Brady it's a very different set of circumstances with the league believing it had evidence in hand that violated the rules and reasonably indicated Brady.
Which they didn't. Which didn't prevent them from leaking bogus info to their media puppets to keep the story alive.
That coupled with the teams recent track record
Which (officially at least) has no bearing on their decision that Brady
personally was culpable of orchestrating a scheme; had nothing whatsoever to do with the
team's previous indiscretion.
made suspicion more reasonable than it would be in a case where there's A) no smoking gun in hand and B) no credible testimony in support.
Which is exactly the case with Deflategate. That Goodell determined the infraction to be comparable to PED use makes the double standard even more galling.
From now on "Nope, nothing to see" will just be the Peyton Standard. I can only imagine how well that explanation would go over if Gisele got some HGH in the mail.
