Living in New England, I can assure you Pats fans are up in arms over this. Outraged.
Of course, they also don't think the Pats should be punished at all for Kraft's tampering, or for deflategate, or anything else the Pats have done. But they are convinced the Jets should have at least lost a fourth or fifth and had to swap second rounders. Some, including their joke of a media, thought the Pats should get the Jets' sixth overall pick, which is just nuts.
If I was woody, I wouldn't pay for this crap. Bs charge. Anyone who saw this knew he meant no harm
You're welcome, I'm just glad the NFL did what it had to do and made the Jets pay for tampering, rules are rules.
you previously seemed to indicate that you expected the jets to be docked a draft pick or picks. seems to me this fine, while huge to normal people, is a mere slap on the wrist for a billionaire like woody and a franchise like the jets (worth $1.8 billion on the august 2014 forbes list)
Hey Sack I didn't know you live in New England, how about that so do I, I'm in CT, where are you?
This was TIP MONEY for the Wood-man, you might as well have fined him Monopoly Moneyyou previously seemed to indicate that you expected the jets to be docked a draft pick or picks. seems to me this fine, while huge to normal people, is a mere slap on the wrist for a billionaire like woody and a franchise like the jets (worth $1.8 billion on the august 2014 forbes list)
He would probably be barred from nfl activities until he donated it to charity to spite commissioner kraft.Yeah, that would show them! Stand up for your rights, Woody! Don't take any sh!t from those swine!
No, but really, what do you think would happen if he didn't pay (if that's even possible; I assume the NFL could just withhold it from the TV revenue checks they send to the teams)? Maybe he'd be suspended? Maybe THEN they'd dock draft picks? Hell, if he really decided to be a lone wolf, they could make him sell the team. Hmm, on second thought, DON'T PAY IT, WOODY!
Hey Sack I didn't know you live in New England, how about that so do I, I'm in CT, where are you?
If I was woody, I wouldn't pay for this crap. Bs charge. Anyone who saw this knew he meant no harm
Couldn't have said it better myself, and thats exactly why I was begging Woody to file charges.Woody said it. It was wrong, and a violation. He deserved punishment.
That said, by the strict letter of the rule, if Woody is guilty, so is Kraft. That is part of the reason why I think Woody got a much lesser penalty than he probably should have.
Had Kraft not opened his mouth, or Woody not responded with a tampering charge of his own, a mid-late pick would have been docked, and probably a mid-round swap of picks. But Kraft pretty much destroyed any chance of that.
Both guys were stupid, and both were smart. Woody was stupid when he made his initial comment. Kraft was smart for pouncing on it and filing charges. HOWEVER, Kraft was stupid for commenting on Revis after he was signed by the Jets, and Woody was smart to pounce on a charge.
If the league dropped the hammer on the Jets and let the Pats walk, it would only feed the belief that NFL fans in 44 states and Fairfield and New Haven counties have, that of a league that helps out the Pats. Whether that belief's true or not, Woody placed Goodell in a position where he would be adding to that perception if he hit Woody big and let Kraft off the hook. Right or wrong, perception trumps reality.
Couldn't have said it better myself, and thats exactly why I was begging Woody to file charges.
I didn't expect it to result in a penalty for the Pats, but I hoped it would mitigate our own penalty for the reasons you articulated, and I believe it did exactly that, it served its purpose
you previously seemed to indicate that you expected the jets to be docked a draft pick or picks. seems to me this fine, while huge to normal people, is a mere slap on the wrist for a billionaire like woody and a franchise like the jets (worth $1.8 billion on the august 2014 forbes list)
Massachusetts, near the NH border.
It's a lovely area isn't it?
Based on the only previous similar examples a loss of a late round draft pick or and exchange of draft position was the result. It was pointed out that the difference may be that in the Chiefs/Lions case was that they where able to prove direct contact between the offending team and the player, here there wasn't direct contact. So in all I'm content that the NFL publicly disciplined the Jets for violating League rules.
It is, though not as economically prosperous as closer to Boston.
It is exceptionally provincial, far more than CT. In much of CT, you have a gray area between Boston and NYC. In this part of MA, it's all Boston.