No Faith in the Moral Standards of the Players as a Group

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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

If you take the worst-case scenario as fact in the Patriots case, having your quarterback instruct your equipment managers to deflate balls after the refs have inspected them and then engaging in a cover-up, destroying evidence, and refusing to cooperate with the investigation puts you in a different category, no? I think that's the type of shit that the conduct detrimental language is supposed to cover.

TM

I can see the conduct detrimental covering the underlined part, although other than for Goodell's made-up claims in that regard I don't see that as occurring - not sure what "cover up" there was, Brady provided all the texts to Wells's satisfaction, as noted in the report, declining only to provide his phone physically (destroyed after Wells was done), and the only refusal to cooperate was not making the deflator available for a fifth interview, or something like that. Bear in mind that in every other instance of such obstruction, the league issued only a fine.