I mean, you could literally make the case that EVERYTIME YOU GET A NEW CELLPHONE… and for some people that’s a few a year, then that previous cellphone is ‘destroyed’. Ok, so why doesn’t the league disclose HOW it was destroyed? One thing is for certain… once someone starts a discovery process you can never delete anything. It could also be that his mistress’ texts would be public. Could be protecting BB or Kraft I guess, but that’s a big assumption. Maybe he was texting to other people about it. If he was hiding something it couldn’t have been texts to the ball boys, because they were already out there. Hard to defend that one even as a Patriots fan. He could have just left it sitting in a drawer in his house intact. Even if it was a regular occurrence to wipe his personal phone and get a new one every few months, which is possible because it’s what people often do if they get a new iPhone from a Samsung or something like that, it still would be an issue if they had requested the text messages before hand. It will be interesting to hear the Brady camp’s reply. I don’t think a judge could be supportive of that. Of course he wasn’t under any legal obligation not to destroy the phone like he would be in a legal proceeding, but it still is bad. Not providing the cell phone is one thing, but requesting it be destroyed is another. Any judge will see that as an attempt to hide evidence. If he did what Goodell said it won’t be favorable in a court case. “The commissioner found that Brady’s deliberate destruction of potentially relevant evidence went beyond a mere failure to cooperate in the investigation and supported a finding that he had sought to hide evidence of his own participation in the underlying scheme to alter the footballs.” The destruction of the cell phone was not disclosed until June 18, almost four months after the investigators had first sought electronic information from Brady.”Īs a result, Goodell did not shorten his initial punishment, which will now certainly be headed to court. During the four months that the cell phone was in use, Brady had exchanged nearly 10,000 text messages, none of which can now be retrieved from that device. “He did so even though he was aware that the investigators had requested access to text messages and other electronic information that had been stored on that phone. “On or shortly before March 6, the day that Tom Brady met with independent investigator Ted Wells and his colleagues, Brady directed that the cell phone he had used for the prior four months be destroyed,” the league statement read. In the league’s release on the matter, they stated that “important new information disclosed by Brady and his representatives” during his appeal hearing came into play. In a not-at-all unexpected end (for now) to the #DeflateGate saga, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has upheld his four-game suspension of Patriots quarterback Tom Brady
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