Tom Brady reportedly will be suspended by NFL next week for his role in Deflategate.
Tom Brady will be the highest profile player ever suspended in the 96-year history of the NFL.
Roger Goodell’s decision is expected to be announced next week and it is no longer a matter of if the NFL commissioner will suspend Brady, but for how long he will suspend him.
In conversations I’ve had with several key sources who always have a good sense of what goes on at 345 Park Avenue, there is little doubt Goodell considers Brady’s role in DeflateGate a serious violation.
The NFL is convinced, according to sources, that connecting all the dots of the evidence supplied by Wells leads to one conclusion:
Brady cheated.
The feeling is the Wells Report supplied Goodell with enough ammunition to suspend Brady both for breaking the rules by ordering the deflation of footballs and by not cooperating with the investigation when he refused to turn over his cell phone to Wells’ investigators.
The only question now is how many games with which Goodell will hit the league’s star player?
Estimates have been all over the map. My feeling is he will wind up with two games, whether that is the initial discipline handed out or whether he is hit with four and ends up with two after an appeal..
Everyone has been wondering if the NFL would actually come down on hard on Brady and the Patriots and it seems like they are about to. This would be the second time in Brady’s career that the Pats would have to be without him for extended time (the other time was due to injury).
If Brady is suspended, this means the Pats would more than likely roll out Jimmy Garropolo as their quarterback.
