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Re: No Faith in the Moral Standards of the Players as a Group
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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall
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Goodell was definitely making it up as he went along. But to stand before a judge and say, "I had NO idea that cheating of this type would be punished," is nonsense. You can argue that the number of games is without precedent (and Kraft (and I'm sure Brady) was ready to accept a shorter suspension) and Berman wouldn't have been wrong to reduce the suspension. But to say that you weren't on notice that you would be punished for participating in a cheating scheme, but the coaches and GM were, is just plain absurd.
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That wasn't his argument. His argument was that he had been notified that the fine for such cheating was $5512 or something.
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