Brady Suspended for Role in Deflategate!!!

              This week, the long awaited Ted Well's report about the scandal known as Deflategate was released, and the NFL has handed down a suspension to Brady for evidence indicating that he had a role in deflating the footballs in the AFC Championship game.  Brady's suspension is four games long, and the New England Patriots were also punished.  The Patriots were fined one million dollars and lost draft picks.  In a statement released before the report was released Robert Kraft stated that his team would cooperate with any punishment the league believed was necessary although he restated his team's innocence.  After the punishment, Kraft seemed to have changed his mind when he expressed his disagreement with the punishment.  However, it does look like the Patriots will not appeal despite Kraft's outrage.  Tom Brady, meanwhile, can and most likely will appeal his suspension.  Brady does have a good chance of minimizing his suspension to one or two games.  The Well's report does not exactly condemn Brady beyond doubt.  After all, most of it is based on circumstantial evidence.  Even the author himself will not directly accuse Brady.  Instead he says, "It is more probable than not."  There are many more problems with the report.  These include that the texts that were key pieces of evidence against Brady were, in fact, sent months before the Patriots took on the Colts.  Then there is the fact that key evidence to do with the actual PSI could have been messed up due to two different gauges, and the punishment is handed out to a crime that Brady might not have committed.  Eventually, it is clear that Tom Brady's suspension has little to do with deflated footballs and everything to do with politics.  Roger Goodell needed a statement after his horrible handling of several other discipline decisions.  He has chosen to punish to heavily punish a star quarterback for a minor cheating issue he may not have actually been involved in, and he has made this issue bigger than it actually ever was.  There is a small piece of irony in the situation  Tom Brady is scheduled to return from suspension in a game against the Indianapolis Colts.  Good luck to them.