Deflategate has turned into the NFL’s have-nots, against the Patriots organization that seems to win all the time.
The Buffalo Bills are a franchise that could benefit from Tom Brady’s four game absence. Hall of Fame quarterback, Jim Kelly, believes Brady’s suspension was excessive.
He also believes Brady is too talented to be deflating balls in the first place.
“I thought it would be better just two games, but they gave him four,” Bills legend Jim Kelly said, via Sal Maiorana of the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. “The initial reaction after hearing so many people talk about it, it would be different if the balls were checked and he already had it how he liked it and then it went to the officials and they OK’d or they just said, ‘No way.’
“But it was the after fact; that after it left Tom and then left the officials, it was supposed to go right to the field — [they] went back and took more air out of it. Tom Brady is a good friend, but he doesn’t need to do that. He’s one of the greatest to ever play the game. So it was sad to see. When I saw the $1 million fine, the first and [fourth] round picks taken away, I was a little shocked.”
Brady will eventually return from his suspension and all will be forgotten if he plays his normal, MVP caliber football.