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Doyel: Tom Brady, DeflateGate villain

It's worse than we thought. Well, not it. Him. Tom Brady. He's worse than we thought.

And we thought he was bad. Nah, we knew it. The Ted Wells report on DeflateGate made it clear the Patriots deflated footballs for the AFC title game against the Colts, made it clear which team employees did it, and left just about no doubt — for anyone outside of New England — that quarterback Tom Brady was ultimately responsible.

Tom Brady, cheater.

Then he appealed his four-game suspension on the grounds that he was innocent.

Tom Brady, liar.

Bad, right? But it's worse. No, not it. Him. Tom Brady. He's worse than a liar, worse than a cheat. He’s a man of low integrity.

Before Tuesday, he was merely a garden variety cheater. But the revelation that Brady had destroyed his cell phone before his interview with Ted Wells makes it clear what species, what kind of cretin, we’re looking at.

Tom Brady, shameless.

Brady has left Rafael Palmeiro territory, wagging his figurative finger at the camera and saying, “I don't believe so,” when asked if he’s a cheater, and entered the more nefarious neighborhood of Ryan Braun and Lance Armstrong. Rigged muscles, rigged footballs — it’s rigging the contest. Gaming the system. Cheating the other team from the fair game it deserves.


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Before Tuesday, Brady was a basic cheater. He was Mark McGwire. Sammy Sosa. Ben Johnson. Floyd Landis. Just another jerk in a sports landscape that has revealed so many of them. But now we see the depths of Brady's desperation.

In an effort to save himself, baseball star Ryan Braun threw the innocent specimen collector under the bus. Cyclist Lance Armstrong threw pretty much everybody under the bus.

Brady threw Roger Goodell under the bus.

The way Brady did it was more subtle than the scumbag moves of Braun and Armstrong, but it was devastating nonetheless. By appealing his suspension based on the argument that the Wells Report hadn’t definitively proved a thing — a calculation Brady was making based on the phone only he knew he had destroyed — he knew he had an army of millions willing to do his bidding in his holy war with the unpopular Goodell.

Fans in New England. Fans in other cities who have come to distrust the admittedly distasteful Goodell. Stooges in the media, especially at ESPN, where Brady's guilt hasn't been debated so much as the absurdity of suspending a player four games for doing what Brady did.


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Makes you wonder what people are missing. What they want to miss, in their desire to attack the dislikable NFL commissioner while absolving the more likeable Patriots quarterback.

It takes some ferocious mental gymnastics to get here, but this is where people got: They decided the periphery stuff — Goodell, Ted Wells, even Ray Rice and Greg Hardy — had more bearing on Brady’s punishment than one fairly clear fact:

Brady rigged the AFC championship game.

He didn't need to rig it. The Patriots have owned the Colts for years and would have owned them on Jan. 18, maybe even by a score of 45-7, had the football been made of Havarti. But Brady rigged the game before the Super Bowl. Put that in italics. Stress what happened, because this wasn’t just any game Tom Brady rigged. He rigged the game before the Super Bowl.

Brady tried, and he succeeded — whether he needed to or not — in deflating the football. He tried, he succeeded, in giving the Patriots an unfair competitive advantage in the biggest game of the season not just for his team, but for the team he was playing.


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This cheating involved a needle, which supplies some symmetry. Brady was playing with a football on Nandrolone.

That alone deserves the four-game suspension. The latest revelation, that Brady didn’t merely fail to cooperate with the investigation but actively hindered it by destroying evidence?

Brady’s lucky Goodell didn’t increase the suspension to five games. If not more.

And maybe Goodell would have done that if it weren’t for the NFL commissioner’s genius at making money. The Patriots’ fifth game, Brady’s first, will be Oct. 18 at Lucas Oil Stadium against the Colts. In prime time. National television commercial spots are for sale as we speak.

And the people said: Cha-ching.

Brady went for it, though. Knowing what nobody, not even the NFL knew — that he had destroyed his cell phone — Brady appealed his suspension and sat back while his thugs in the media (social and mainstream) bullied Roger Goodell for him.

Goodell refused to cave. He upheld the suspension. Now the ball is back in Brady’s court, only this ball hasn't been rigged and this game will be fairly contested. Let’s call it Brady vs. The Truth, and if Brady does in fact sue the NFL as has been reported, well, we already know the truth.

Tom Brady, guilty.

Find Star columnist Gregg Doyel on Twitter at @GreggDoyelStar or atwww.facebook.com/gregg.doyel

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NFLN is ruining training camps live with all this damn drama! Fuck Kraft too, his products contain poison-high fructose syrup. Brady may be a damn good qb but he's just one pathetic **** ****** person. Accept the light punishment, all season suspension would be more appropriate.

SMH, thought the CBA meant something that ALL involved agreed upon.

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Deflategate Ruins Tom Brady's Reputation, Permanently
Posted: 05/12/2015 9:59 am EDT Updated: 05/12/2015 9:59 am EDT
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Brady denied it. Then when asked to cooperate with the investigation, Brady denied that too, instead holding secret meetings and overly-texting the two equipment managers who did the deed. In regards to cover ups, Brady's attempt falls somewhere between Richard Nixon and Anthony Weiner.

If Brady apologists are looking for something to hold on to, their best is the idea of insignificance. Maybe, just maybe, deflating footballs isn't that big of a deal. After all, this wasn't Al Davis disguising himself as a reporter to ask the opposing players questions on game strategy. It wasn't even Bill Belichick videotaping the opponent's defensive signals. This was simply letting a little air out of the pigskin. As far as law-breaking goes, ball deflation is probably a misdemeanor, not a legacy killer.

Except that, well... cheating is cheating. It's pretty black-and-white at the end of the day. Some people don't think to cheat. Others do. Now it is known that just like his head coach, Brady is part of the latter. When given the option between winning the right way or finding a means of giving himself an advantage that went against the rules, Brady opted for the advantage. Then he lied about it, like Rose and Bonds and A-Rod before him.

So how deep does the rabbit hole go here? Was this an isolated incident, limited to just this single season? Perhaps Brady, watching a decade go by without a fourth Lombardi Trophy, started bending the rules in a final attempt to tip his legacy away from Aikman and more towards Montana. Perhaps what Brady was caught doing this season was something the Brady of 2001 would never even consider.

Or... and this is a bit of a leap, mind you... but perhaps it is now fair to wonder how a 6th-round draft pick who couldn't beat out Brian freaking Griese to start at Michigan suddenly evolved into the greatest quarterback in a generation. Perhaps it is also fair to wonder how Brady was able to win three Super Bowls with a pretty mediocre cast of pass-catchers. Perhaps it is fair to question how good Tom Brady ever really was.

That's the real shame of Deflategate, at the end of the day. Instead of looking back at one of the most remarkable and accomplished careers in the history of the NFL, Brady will forever be linked to a cheating scandal that landed him a four-game suspension from the NFL.

Now and forever, he is Tom Brady, Super Bowl Winner*.

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Cell And Bye — Brady Deserves To Sit After Destroying Phone

Tom Brady had his cellphone destroyed and only the most ardent of Brady apologists would argue today that his credibility in Deflategate wasn't destroyed in the process.

Is Brady's legacy as the greatest quarterback in NFL history trashed right along with his SIM card? That's too huge a leap to take. Yet in upholding a four-game suspension for using underinflated footballs in the AFC Championship Game — a suspension too harsh — commissioner Roger Goodell exposed Brady as more than a man who would not cooperate.

On Tuesday, Goodell exposed the Patriots quarterback as a man who willfully and stupidly obstructed an investigation. In the end, the cover-up is a far bigger hit on Brady's reputation than tossing around an underinflated football in a rout of the Colts.


Either the day of or the day before Brady met with investigator Ted Wells on March 6, it turns out he had his personal assistant destroy a cellphone he had been using since Nov. 6. The NFL was looking for emails, texts, specific electronic communication about the ball deflation. Instead, Brady explained it was "normal practice" for him to periodically destroy cellphones when he got a new one. It just coincidentally happened this destruction came within hours of meeting with Wells?

Be honest. If someone like Alex Rodriguez or David Ortiz had tried that argument, they'd be laughed out of the Western Hemisphere. Brady should be, too.

Goodell had clubbed Brady too hard with the four-game suspension and it was growing clearer he didn't have the tools to make this suspension stand. Brady did the one thing he couldn't do. He killed his cellphone and, in the process, he put the hammer of justice back in the commissioner's hand. Moreover, he delivered Goodell the moral high ground, which for the NFL is damn near impossible these days.

In a world where we must deal with Iran's nuclear threat and ISIS-sparked terrorism, where our lives would be much better served with debate over police interaction with the black community and the perils of immigrant felons, it is beyond embarrassing that Deflategate has hogged so much of the national spotlight for six months.

In a sports world where the dedicated media's focus on domestic violence, performance enhancing drugs and abuses in youth sports would be much nobler than the endless hours arguing the air pressure of a dadgum football, it is beyond embarrassing that Brady, according to an ESPN report, has authorized the NFLPA to appeal in federal court.

The fault, in that regard, lies with both parties.



The assertion by some that what Brady did was tantamount to nothing more than running a stop sign isn't fair. When you mess around with the ball, you do mess around with the competitive integrity of a given game. At the same time, after the 45-7 rout, it's also true that Brady could have used a rock and the Colts would have gotten smoked on the scoreboard. Four games? Too much.

If Brady had just come clean, said, yeah, the equipment guys knew I want the ball a certain way and if they were underinflated by league standards, I take responsibility and apologize … this entire saga would be long over. Instead of two games, appealed down to one, we get a mess that is pleasing only to lawyers.

There is conflicting science, of course, and some of it is mind-numbing. There is a Wells investigation concluding that Brady "more probable than not" was "generally aware" of the deflation by the equipment staff, something far short of a legal conviction. There is the NFL system of justice that would reduce Greg Hardy's suspension for domestic abuse from 10 games to four upon appeal yet keep Brady's at four. There is the NFL Players Association itching to take on the NFL in court over a process that was collectively bargained.

There was a lot of gray area and in that gray was reason to believe Goodell would reduce the suspension upon appeal. Heck, suspensions always are reduced by the NFL. The league loves to look tough and leave wiggle room to lessen the severity.

There also was time and room to cut a deal. Yet on Tuesday there was no surprise expressed by those close to negotiations that no deal was struck. It sure seems like that's because Brady has insisted on no suspension at all.

Give Stephen A. Smith of ESPN credit. He was out ahead of this story Tuesday. Beyond the destroyed cellphone, Smith also talked about language in the 2007 NFL ruling on the Patriots and Bill Belichick over Spygate that Belichick would be "banned" if there was a repeat infraction. Some have seen this as a reason why owner Robert Kraft, who blasted the NFL at the Super Bowl, eventually capitulated on a Deflategate penalty of a $1 million fine and loss of a 2016 first-round and 2017 fourth-round draft pick.

Look, the lords of football can't seem to get any public relations right these days. This week, the Hall of Fame announced it wouldn't allow Junior Seau's daughter to speak at its induction ceremonies. There was the NFL coming out this week with definitive rules for football inflation. That would indicate proper standards for measurement and punishment weren't already in place.

In his 20-page statement, Goodell compared what Brady did in seeking a playing advantage to the use of PEDs, which carries a first-time four-game suspension. That's a risky assertion by Goodell, the kind of thing that gets the law-and-order sheriff in trouble.

And why Goodell would allow Hardy and Brady to have matching four-game suspensions is beyond comprehension. Yet if the NFL was going to go down in flames, it has managed to bring down Brady with it. Or rather, Brady and his people outsmarted themselves and gave Goodell the matches to burn him.

"Mr. Brady's conduct gives rise to an inference that information from his cellphone, if it were available, would further demonstrate his direct knowledge of and involvement with the scheme to tamper with the game balls," Goodell said in his statement.

If there had been some sort of agreement, chances are we may never have known, or at least not known for a long time, about Brady destroying his cellphone. The NFL found out in June before Brady's appeal hearing with Goodell, but it didn't surface publicly until Goodell's hard-line stand Tuesday.

You have to wonder. Was Brady so intent on preserving his legacy and not missing even one minute of play that he was willing to risk his reputation? Did he think he was Teflon Tom? Was he so convinced of his own image as the perfect guy that he couldn't see the imperfections in his own actions? Was he so convinced that the science was so conflicting and fuzzy that he's sure he'll win in court and escape as the great white knight?

It turned out, for example, that he hadn't destroyed an earlier cellphone that he stopped using Nov. 6 and was willing to make that one available to NFL investigators.

The Brady camp has asked us to suspend belief at times, like in their texts John Jastremski and Jim McNally were only joking about being the "Deflator," etc.
"The NFL has no evidence that anything inappropriate occurred," Brady's agent Don Yee said in a statement. "The appeal process was a sham, resulting in the commissioner rubber-stamping his own decision … the science in the Wells Report was junk. It has been thoroughly discredited by independent third parties. … Finally, as to the issue of cooperation, we presented the commissioner with an unprecedented amount of electronic data, all of which is incontrovertible."

Maybe Brady gets an injunction to continue playing. That would give more time for the two sides to negotiate and it still ends up as a one-game suspension in a less meaningful game later in the season. Or maybe they do go to court and Brady finds a friendly judge who rules that the NFL judicial process is a sham — even if it was collectively bargained. Maybe, in the end he wins.

But can Tom Brady win now?



Oh, maybe the most ardent jury of Brady apologists will say yes. But when you destroy a cellphone with information the NFL dearly wanted, and you tried to pretend it was business as usual, well, you have lost credibility in the court of public opinion.

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At the same time, after the 45-7 rout, it's also true that Brady could have used a rock and the Colts would have gotten smoked on the scoreboard. Four games? Too much.


There is a Wells investigation concluding that Brady "more probable than not" was "generally aware" of the deflation by the equipment staff, something far short of a legal conviction.
He's forgetting things and wrong about the standard of the Well's report. I think.

That's assuming he only did it that one game and the Cheatriots paucity of fumbles started when?

"more probable than not" is a sufficient standard if I'm not mistaken.
 

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This is really getting good...
But now we see the depths of Brady's desperation.
So how deep does the rabbit hole go here? Was this an isolated incident, limited to just this single season?
perhaps it is now fair to wonder how a 6th-round draft pick who couldn't beat out Brian freaking Griese to start at Michigan suddenly evolved into the greatest quarterback in a generation. Perhaps it is also fair to wonder how Brady was able to win three Super Bowls with a pretty mediocre cast of pass-catchers.
 

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Or... and this is a bit of a leap, mind you... but perhaps it is now fair to wonder how a 6th-round draft pick who couldn't beat out Brian freaking Griese to start at Michigan suddenly evolved into the greatest quarterback in a generation. Perhaps it is also fair to wonder how Brady was able to win three Super Bowls with a pretty mediocre cast of pass-catchers. Perhaps it is fair to question how good Tom Brady ever really was.

That's it in a nutshell, right there...
 

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I mean in all honesty, I see the suspension being reduced to either 2 or none, unfortunately. It's a win win for both parties: Brady wins and comes back sooner so the for-brady crowd is happy, and the NFL can at least claim "well at least we upheld it... Initially." And you also have to consider, if Brady did indeed lose his lawsuit, he'd be held out of week 5's game against cowboys because their bye is week 4, and there's no way bighead Jones is gonn allow for that to happen. Not in his dome with all those headlines and revenue to be made. You just know he will be in goodell's ear for sure.
 

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NERamsFan thinking small:
I mean in all honesty, I see the suspension being reduced to either 2 or none, unfortunately. It's a win win for both parties: Brady wins and comes back sooner so the for-brady crowd is happy, and the NFL can at least claim "well at least we upheld it... Initially." And you also have to consider, if Brady did indeed lose his lawsuit, he'd be held out of week 5's game against cowboys because their bye is week 4, and there's no way bighead Jones is gonn allow for that to happen. Not in his dome with all those headlines and revenue to be made. You just know he will be in goodell's ear for sure.
The important thing to realize is that his legacy will be forever tarnished. As will the legacy of the whole Cheatriot team.
 

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And you also have to consider, if Brady did indeed lose his lawsuit, he'd be held out of week 5's game against cowboys because their bye is week 4, and there's no way bighead Jones is gonn allow for that to happen. Not in his dome with all those headlines and revenue to be made. You just know he will be in goodell's ear for sure.

Not so fast...Jerruh wants a win more than anything else.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...kraft-doesnt-jerry-jones-backs-roger-goodell/

Even though Robert Kraft doesn’t, Jerry Jones backs Roger Goodell
Posted by Darin Gantt on July 30, 2015

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Patriots owner Robert Kraft changed his tune this week, going from a conciliatory shrug to defiance, saying: “I was wrong to put my faith in the league.”

But another owner who has had his share of punishment from the NFL said he thinks commissioner Roger Goodell is still doing a good job.

He’s got obviously a very tough job,” Jones said, via Todd Archer of ESPNDallas.com. “Now I see some people doing that, that’s that old violin that’s not feeling too sorry for him because that’s why you pay the big bucks is to deal with the big problems. But he’s doing an outstanding job.

I can tell you firsthand that in his spot you have to with people that you are counting on to help build and to help excel as far as the National Football League, I’m talking about the owners, you have to know that you’re going to make some decisions that are very unpopular with that particular group. This is the case.

“I can speak to that because on a personal basis as well as for my franchise and our Dallas Cowboys franchise, we’ve had that happen to us. I’m sitting there living with the result of the commissioner’s decision still today that I didn’t agree with when it happened.

And so some of the very people sometimes that have the biggest complaints, they’re the ones who give you a phone call and say, ‘Hey let’s be a team player now and let’s all get in here and realize that this happens to everybody and let’s go on and compete. We’ve got a great league and a great game.'”

Kraft had previously been a team player, saying it was best for the league for him to drop any complaints over the team’s #DeflateGate penalties. But when Goodell upheld quarterback Tom Brady’s four-game suspension, Kraft lost it, and went back on the offensive against the league in general.

While the $1 million fine and loss of a first- and fourth-round pick is harsh, so was Jones losing $10 million of salary cap space for taking advantage of the uncapped year.

“He has to make hard calls,” Jones said of the commissioner, “and more often than not, you’re going to have a season or you’re going to have a period of time where those go against you as an owner in the NFL.”

Of course, Jones’ pro-Goodell stance (and those are getting fewer and farther between) might be helped by the fact a four-game suspension keeps Brady out of a game against the Cowboys.

Much like Kraft, Jones knows that what’s good for him is still what’s best for him.
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#DeflateGate brings out the venom from readers
Posted by Mike Florio on July 29, 2015

In the six months since #DeflateGate first emerged, PFT has received countless emails from fans pushing various ideas and agendas and opinions and theories. None has been more persistent than one specific reader who routinely sends emails to multiple media outlets, arguing zealously against the Patriots and Tom Brady.

Her lengthy and consistent and hostile emails read like a native of Russia trying (and failing) to speak English. (Not that there’s anything wrong with being a native of Russia who is trying and failing to speak English.)

Here’s a portion of the message that arrived in the PFT mailbox tonight.

“Patriots tom brady is wrongdoing for deflategate. Text messages. I support to roger goodell. I hates Patriots robert kraft is a–hole and a–hole and stupid and dumb. Robert kraft is wrong and liar. Patriots qb tom brady is lie and liar and dumb and cheat. Tom brady is guilt. I against tom brady and Robert kraft. Patriots owners Robert kraft is fired and out of office and go to jail. . . .

“President Eric Winston is wrong and demaurice smith is wrong and fired and failed. Roger goodell is rigth. Ted wells is rigth. I like to roger goodell and ted wells. I not like tom brady and Robert kraft. I am never watch on tv for football. Roger goodell is winner. Nflpa are loses. Tom brady is loses. Robert kraft is loses.

“I did read from roger goodell said against tom brady is 4 games. Tom brady is look bad and devil. . . .

“Boston bruin is loses. Basketball in boston are loses. Red sox are most loses hahahahahahahahahahah. Tom brady is wrongdoing for deflategate. Tom brady is dumb.”


Actually, I’m the one who is dumb, because I make it easy for folks to send in emails via the “send scoop” button. If I keep making stupid decisions like that, I eventually will be wrong and fired and failed.
 

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One of the craziest baseball trade deadlines in memory and all the talking heads on tv and radio can talk about is the Patriots cheating!
 

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freak Kraft too, his products contain poison-high fructose syrup
In defense of the fine folks at the Kraft Heinz Company (of which I own shares), Robert Kraft has no affiliation with the Kraft Heinz Company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kraft
Business career[edit]
Kraft began his professional career with the Rand-Whitney Group, a Worcester-based packaging company run by his father-in-law Jacob Hiatt.[5] In 1968, Kraft gained control of the company through a leveraged buyout.[2] He still serves as this company's chairman. In 1972, he founded International Forest Products, a trader of physical paper commodities. The two combined companies make up the largest privately held paper and packaging companies in the United States. Kraft has stated that he started the company out of a hunch that the increase in international communications and transportation would lead to an expansion of global trade in the late twentieth century.[11]
International Forest Products became a top 100 US exporters/importer in 1997 and in 2013 was No. 20 on the Journal of Commerce's list in that category.[12][13] Kraft said of the business in 1991 that, “We do things for a number of companies, including Avon, Kodak, cosmetics companies, candies, toys.” The company produced both corrugated and folding cartons, which he stated, “are used to package everything from the Patriot missile, to mints, to Estee Lauder, Indiana Glass and Polaroid.”[14] Kraft then built out the Kraft Group from the packaging businesses, acquiring interests in other areas.[11]
Kraft was an investor in New England Television Corp., which gained control of WNAC-TV in 1982,[15] and Kraft became a director of the board in 1983. The station then became WNEV-TV. In 1986 he was named president of the corporation.[16] In 1991, Kraft exercised option to unload his shares for an estimated $25 million.[17]
 

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Jets fans fly “Cheaters” banner over Patriots training camp
Posted by Darin Gantt on July 30, 2015

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No longer content to advocate for the firing of their own General Manager, a group of Jets fans have broadened their horizons.

A plane dragging a banner reading “Cheaters Look Up! @JetsFanMedia” is currently flying over Patriots practice at the team facility during their first day of training camp, heckling them for the #DeflateGate penalties.

While that’s apparently a different group than the guys who had “Fire John Idzik” banners flown over Jets practice, the fact all Jets fans share an affinity for airborne advertising is a charming show of solidarity.

Of course, the shame of it all is that coach Bill Belichick has already talked to reporters before practice, so we don’t get a chance for him to tell us the plane “has already been addressed.”

Photo credit: Sunday Night Football twitter account
 

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Jets fans fly “Cheaters” banner over Patriots training camp
Posted by Darin Gantt on July 30, 2015

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No longer content to advocate for the firing of their own General Manager, a group of Jets fans have broadened their horizons.

A plane dragging a banner reading “Cheaters Look Up! @JetsFanMedia” is currently flying over Patriots practice at the team facility during their first day of training camp, heckling them for the #DeflateGate penalties.

While that’s apparently a different group than the guys who had “Fire John Idzik” banners flown over Jets practice, the fact all Jets fans share an affinity for airborne advertising is a charming show of solidarity.

Of course, the shame of it all is that coach Bill Belichick has already talked to reporters before practice, so we don’t get a chance for him to tell us the plane “has already been addressed.”

Photo credit: Sunday Night Football twitter account
Genius! (applauds)...