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Even if your practice is to destroy your cell phone every eight months (someone get me THAT cell-phone carrier and the accompanying contract, please) you can't be smashing a cell phone the NFL wants to look at the day they want to look at it.
Especially when there's another older cell phone you'll allow the NFL to look at.
"Mr. Brady explained that when he changes cellphones, he gives his old cellphone to an assistant with the instruction 'to destroy the phone so that no one can ever, you know, reset it or do something where the information is available to anyone.' But this conflicts with the fact that the cellphone that he had used prior to November 6, 2014 was, in fact, available for Mr. Maryman's review," Goodell wrote. "Had Mr. Brady followed what he and his attorneys called his 'ordinary practice,' one would expect that the cellphone that he had used prior to November 6, 2014 would have been destroyed long before Mr. Maryman was hired. No explanation was provided for this anomaly."
So that's a big problem. Brady looks like he got nabbed with his hand firmly planted in the cookie jar. It doesn't matter what role he had in the footballs during the Colts-Patriots AFC Championship Game.
Still a cheater.![]()
if it goes to federal court this in over is 5 seconds....they'll have access to every text between Brady and the end user at their disposal. I think Kraft is eventually going to tell Tom to chill, because I'd imagine Belichick knew everything too.
That's not how this works."Following the appeal hearing, Mr. Brady's representatives provided a letter from his cell phone carrier confirming that the text messages sent from or received by the destroyed cell phone could no longer be recovered"
That's not how this works.
Plus if you actually read the ruling the phone company said the text where not recoverable.
page 4:
https://nfllabor.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/07282015-final-decision-tom-brady-appeal.pdf
What does any of this have to do with what I said?

I hate all you Brady-hating non-lawyers commentating. The general consensus which I told you about months back is that the NFL would got MOPPED up in court with this level of evidence. Do you guys only read Patriot-hating articles? Literally every attorney with a modicum of intelligence has said Brady has the winning case and every commentator worth a damn has turned on the NFL. Even players like Champ Bailey and freaking Jets have defended Brady. If you think Brady missing time is legitimate in anyway, you have not actually read the Wells Report or it's rebuttal or you're a Pats hater. There is no middle ground at this point. Quote this post when Brady suits up for game 1 in September. As a matter of fact, if Brady serves this suspension ban me from this forum for the first month of the NFL season. This is an open and shut case of NFL nonsense. @Brooklynzson I just @ you so it's official.



That can't be true![]()
For Immediate Release
July 28, 2015
NFLPA STATEMENT ON TOM BRADY'S FOUR-GAME SUSPENSION
The Commissioner's ruling today did nothing to address the legal deficiencies of due process. The NFL remains stuck with the following facts:
The fact that the NFL would resort to basing a suspension on a smoke screen of irrelevant text messages instead of admitting that they have all of the phone records they asked for is a new low, even for them, but it does nothing to correct their errors.
- The NFL had no policy that applied to players;
- The NFL provided no notice of any such policy or potential discipline to players;
- The NFL resorted to a nebulous standard of "general awareness" to predicate a legally unjustified punishment;
- The NFL had no procedures in place until two days ago to test air pressure in footballs; and
- The NFL violated the plain meaning of the collective bargaining agreement.
The NFLPA will appeal this outrageous decision on behalf of Tom Brady.
-- NFL Players Association
