God, Kraft is such a self righteous corrupt, dishonest arrogant elitist prick

[johnnysd]

He seriously thinks Brady should have been exonerated because he took the punishment, and participated in covering up the evidence.

He turns my stomach. No one needs to wonder why the Pats are the least ethical of all NFL franchises when you see this complete ass clown. Watch the video

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap30...aft-i-was-wrong-to-put-my-faith-in-the-league

 

[SackExchange]

Every other franchise, when caught running afoul of league rules, has stepped up and apologized. When Woody made dumb comments about Revis at a press conference, he owned up to it. When the Falcons got caught pumping in noise to their dome, Arthur Blank stepped up like a man and apologized for it. When Ray Farmer got caught texting for the Browns in violation of league rules, he apologized.

The Pats get caught cheating all the time, and they act like whiny, petulant children when they do. They get caught up in their own spiral of lies. And they never admit anything. They never man up, because they're not men. They're a bunch of babies, immature little boys.

 

[Green Jets & Ham]

At least now everyone sees that this belligerent, 'we are above the rules' mentality comes from the very top of the Patriots organization. The media will continue to portray "Mr. Kraft" (as they respectfully call him) like some kind of saint, for some reason they are vested in the idea that this assclown is the proverbial 'conscience of the league', or some such propaganda, but this whole sordid affair has made it CRYSTAL CLEAR that the arrogance and belligerence of the Patriots organization, the very things about this organization that most people outside of NE find repulsive, starts at the top with that drunken old fool, Bob Kraft. How the other owners don't despise this POS is beyond me? Or maybe they are finally waking up to the fact that they have a real, arrogant POS in their midst and thats why they insisted the league stands firm in this matter even it it means going to court. Maybe the other owners have finally had enough of these arrogant pr**ks.

 

[Jets31]

Did you hear belicheck speak after? He is even worse. Give the media no answers to anything even football stuff. Why they bother to ask at this point surprises me. I know he hates it so I'm glad they keep asking.

 

[maxmet]

stepping away from deflategate, if the reporters who cover the Pats had any stones, they would start refusing to ask questions at his press conferences. He refuses to answer - gives mumbled answers that are an array of words that mean nothing. They would stand up as journalists if they agreed at least once that no one would have any questions for him. It would send a message - and after he left they could explain - to each other - that since he doesnt answer they have decided to take a break from asking him any questions.

 

[Jets31]

stepping away from deflategate, if the reporters who cover the Pats had any stones, they would start refusing to ask questions at his press conferences. He refuses to answer - gives mumbled answers that are an array of words that mean nothing. They would stand up as journalists if they agreed at least once that no one would have any questions for him. It would send a message - and after he left they could explain - to each other - that since he doesnt answer they have decided to take a break from asking him any questions.

No you arent getting it. Thats exactly what he wants. The fact that he is forced to do it by the league is what he hates. They should just ask more stupid questions to piss him off. He has no choice but to stand up there.

I believe this is one of the big reasons he wanted out of NY. Parcells hated the media too but he could handle them and be respectful. BB just refuses to give anything which is crappy for the fans if you ask me.

 

[maxmet]

oh, I agree, I dont mean that they should permanently stop asking questions. Just do it once or for a week. It would get some very interesting coverage on sportscenter and in various types of media

then, try again to ask questions.

In other contexts, say political coverage, the White House press corps generally stands up for its rights. Well, sometimes.....

 

[SackExchange]

The problem is, the Boston media aren't media (save a couple rare folks). They are fans with column inches.

Look at how delusional some of the articles coming out of supposedly legitimate Boston media outlets are. So they aren't going to do anything to upset their guy Coach.

 

[NewMFS62]

Kraft is such a self righteous corrupt, dishonest arrogant elitist prick

And those are his good points.

Later

 

[soj]

The title says it all... and agree totally. What a F...AH!

 

[Jet Fan RI]

At least now everyone sees that this belligerent, 'we are above the rules' mentality comes from the very top of the Patriots organization. The media will continue to portray "Mr. Kraft" (as they respectfully call him) like some kind of saint, for some reason they are vested in the idea that this assclown is the proverbial 'conscience of the league', or some such propaganda, but this whole sordid affair has made it CRYSTAL CLEAR that the arrogance and belligerence of the Patriots organization, the very things about this organization that most people outside of NE find repulsive, starts at the top with that drunken old fool, Bob Kraft. How the other owners don't despise this POS is beyond me? Or maybe they are finally waking up to the fact that they have a real, arrogant POS in their midst and thats why they insisted the league stands firm in this matter even it it means going to court. Maybe the other owners have finally had enough of these arrogant pr**ks.

There's something cheesy about Kraft.

 

[Jet Fan RI]

The problem is, the Boston media aren't media (save a couple rare folks). They are fans with column inches.

Look at how delusional some of the articles coming out of supposedly legitimate Boston media outlets are. So they aren't going to do anything to upset their guy Coach.

It's surprising, but in Providence there is actually one sportswriter who does take Brady and the Pats to task for this stuff. I can only imagine the vitriol that is stuffed into his inbox.

 

[HYATT™]

Come on johnnysd, doesn't hold back.
Give us a hint of what you REALLY think about Kraft.

 

[SackExchange]

It's surprising, but in Providence there is actually one sportswriter who does take Brady and the Pats to task for this stuff. I can only imagine the vitriol that is stuffed into his inbox.

Has to get destroyed. Is it in the ProJo? What about comments to the articles? Tomase and Shaughnessy get destroyed by the locals for their pieces. They're not blindly partisan enough.

 

[BlindsideD'Brick]

Did you hear belicheck speak after? He is even worse. Give the media no answers to anything even football stuff. Why they bother to ask at this point surprises me. I know he hates it so I'm glad they keep asking.

Mumbles Belichick? I can understand about 20% of what he says when he talks. He's got the personality of a rock. He's just as much of a slime ball as Brady and Kraft. Birds of a feather.

 

[Mainejet]

He seriously thinks Brady should have been exonerated because he took the punishment, and participated in covering up the evidence.

He turns my stomach. No one needs to wonder why the Pats are the least ethical of all NFL franchises when you see this complete ass clown. Watch the video

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap30...aft-i-was-wrong-to-put-my-faith-in-the-league

So why don't you tell us how you really feel?

 

[Jet Fan RI]

Has to get destroyed. Is it in the ProJo? What about comments to the articles? Tomase and Shaughnessy get destroyed by the locals for their pieces. They're not blindly partisan enough.

In the Projo, yes. But I never see comments on sports stories published. I even wrote a couple letters myself, on a different subject (pointing out factual errors in sports stories), and they weren't published and no "error admission" was ever published either, although there is no question there were in fact errors. Must be something with the sports editor. Things won't change until he goes.

Anyway, in case you are interested, here are commentaries about deflategate that were pubkished by the writer in question the last two days.

JULY 29th:

COMMENTARYACTIONS LOUDER THAN WORDS
Brady’s destruction of his cellphone more than ‘troubling’
I agree with Roger Goodell. At least on this point: “Mr. Brady’s direction that his cellphone (and its relevant evidence) be destroyed on or about March 6 is very troubling.” Yes, it is. And should be to even the most ardent Brady backers, who believe fervently and faithfully that the Patriots’ four-time, Super Bowl-winning quarterback can neither see, hear, nor speak any evil. Not on the field. Not in the locker room. And certainly not on his cellphone. One of Brady’s many strengths as a future Hall of Fame QB — yes, he’s still going to get in; and certainly should — is his ability to deliver the football on time to his receivers. How can any objective observer not question the timing of Brady’s order to an assistant to destroy his cellphone on the day he was interviewed by NFL investigators? Does it not seem to have been more than a bit, to say the least, coincidental? Nor is it a stretch to say it also looks suspicious. Which is why Tom’s in trouble now. Things haven’t looked this bad for Brady since a fully-inflated football fell into the hands of Jerome Kearse while the Seahawks receiver was flat on his back at the New England 5-yard line in the final minute of Super Bowl XLIX. Malcolm Butler — or Pete Carroll, depending on your point of view — bailed Brady out that time. Now, he’s going to have to serve his time, as Goodell, after considering Brady’s appeal for more than a month, has upheld the four-game suspension he handed down on May 11. The NFLPA has been eager since then to take the NFL to court on Brady’s behalf — an action to which Brady acceded late Tuesday afternoon. Here comes da judge! And so the sad saga of Deflategate will continue to dominate football news in New England — and much of the rest of the country, across which there is little love for Brady and the Patriots — for even more tedious time to come. How it finally plays out will be another story, for another time. The key aspect of the story on Tuesday afternoon, when the NFL released a 20-page statement from Goodell, explaining why Brady’s appeal had been denied, was Brady’s destruction of his cellphone. Among the reasons Goodell had come down hard on Brady in the first place was the QB’s failure to cooperate with the investigation. The destruction of the cellphone only exacerbated that situation. “Rather than simply failing to cooperate,” Goodell wrote in his decision, “Mr. Brady made a deliberate effort to ensure that investigators would never have access to information that he had been asked to produce. Put differently, there was an affirmative effort by Mr. Brady to conceal potentially relevant evidence and to undermine the investigation. Mr. Brady’s conduct gives rise to an inference that information from his cellphone, if it were available, would further demonstrate his direct knowledge of and involvement with the scheme to tamper with the game balls prior to the AFC Championship Game. “Mr. Brady’s affirmative action to ensure that this information would not be available leads me to conclude that he was attempting to conceal evidence of his personal involvement in the tampering scheme, just as he concealed for months the fact that he had destroyed the cellphone requested by the investigators.” Brady knew in February that the NFL was interested in reviewing calls and texts he’d made from his cellphone — information the league said it would peruse with a representative of Brady’s present. Yet he had it destroyed the day in March he was interviewed by NFL investigators, and then did not subsequently inform the league about it until mid-June. Brady backers will try to put the best spin possible on that, but they must admit that it doesn’t look good. They’d have to be as clueless as John Jastremski and Jim “The Deflator” McNally if they thought otherwise. — jdonalds@providence-  journal.com   On Twitter: @JDonaldsonProJo (401) 277-7340

Patriots quarterback Tom Brady has denied any involvement in the tampering of footballs in the AFC Championship Game in January. But relevalations on Tuesday that he had his cellphone and thousands of text messages destroyed, evidence that could have exonerated him, certainly diminish his believability. More on the NFL’s denial of Brady’s appeal on Page A1  . AP FILES/ELISE AMENDOLA

JIM DONALDSON

Tom Brady looked frustrated during a losing effort in Kansas City last season. On Tuesday, his four-game suspension was upheld by commissioner Roger Goodell and news of an apparent coverup further exacerbated the situation. AP FILES/CHARLIE RIEDEL

JULY 30

Scrambling Kraft turns on NFL, again
Bob Kraft has gone from demanding an apology in Phoenix to making one in Foxboro. Surely, you remember how the Patriots owner, overflowing with righteous indignation, stormed to the podium at the team hotel upon arrival for Super Bowl XLIX and demanded an apology from the league for daring to suggest there had been tampering with the footballs used in the AFC Championship Game. In May, Kraft reluctantly accepted what he called, on Wednesday morning, “the harshest penalty in the history of the NFL” as punishment for the Patriots’ role in what has come to be known as Deflategate. That penalty was $1 million and the loss of two draft picks — a first-rounder in 2016 and a fourth-rounder in 2017. Part of the reason the Pats’ punishment was so stiff was because they’d been found guilty in Spygate in 2007. It’s what happens to repeat offenders. Kraft said Wednesday that he reluctantly chose to accept the Deflategate penalties in hopes that commissioner Roger Goodell would reduce the four-game suspension given to star quarterback Tom Brady and “return the focus to football.” That didn’t happen, and now Kraft, irate rather than contrite, says he “regrets” his decision. Since he is a bottom-line businessman, it may also have factored in Kraft’s latest reversal of field — if only the Pats had a running back that shifty — that much of his ticket-and-merchandise-buying fan base was upset with him for what they perceived in May as knuckling under to Goodell. The customer is always right. And, in the eyes of the Patriots, Goodell is all wrong about Deflategate. Calling the commissioner’s decision to uphold Brady’s four-game suspension “unfathomable,” Kraft went all Al Davis on us at a news conference marking the opening of training camp. He wore his trademark blue shirt with a white collar. (Fashion aside here — does he get a new one every day, or have the same one washed daily; I’m guessing the former.) It would have been better if, channeling the late, renegade owner of the Raiders, he showed up in black leather, suiting his mood and attitude. Calling Brady “a person of great integrity,” Kraft insisted that there is “no hard evidence of anybody doing anything to tamper with footballs.” Take that, Ted Wells! Kraft, after noting that it was “routine” for player punishments “to be reduced on appeal,” slammed Goodell for making Brady’s destruction of his cellphone on — what a coincidence! — the day he was to be interviewed by NFL investigators, the primary focus of his statement Tuesday upholding the suspension. In Kraft’s opinion, Goodell was “intentionally implying nefarious behavior” on Brady’s part. Yes, I’d said that was, indeed, the intention. And I wouldn’t say it was merely implied. “I was wrong to put my faith in the league,” Kraft said. Instead, he believes in Tom, and Bill, and in Patriot Nation, indivisible and totally innocent of any wrongdoing. Clearly, Goodell no longer can count Kraft — one of the NFL’s most powerful and influential owners — among the faithful. But business will go on as usual at the NFL offices on Park Avenue — and at training camps opening this week around the country. It certainly was an interesting opening day in Foxboro, with Kraft having his say — but taking no questions, after which coach Bill “Stonewall” Belichick said he would not “be dealing with [Deflategate] at all.” “I’m just trying to get the team ready and prepare for the regular season,” he said with his usual candor and charm. Brady did not appear at the news conference. He said what he had to say — or what his advisers told him to say — earlier Wednesday morning on his Facebook page. Quite the start to the 2015 season for the defending NFL champions, wouldn’t you say? — jdonalds@  providencejournal.com   On Twitter: @JDonaldsonProJo (401) 277-7340 Read more from columnist Jim Donaldson on his blog at providencejournal.com/sports/  jim-donaldsons-blog/  

JIM DONALDSON

Patriots owner Robert Kraft chats with quarterback Tom Brady before a practice in January 2013. Kraft on Wednesday defended the embattled star as “a person of great integrity.” THE PROVIDENCE JOURNAL/BOB BREIDENBACH

Head coach Bill Belichick, seen here on May 29, was characteristically reticent during his portion of Wednesday’s news conference.

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