Deflate Gate Brady's Suspension

    The NFL commissioner Roger Goodell finally came out with a decision and punishment for Brady and the Patriots on Deflate Gate. Just over 4 months after the AFC Championship game against the Colts Brady's punishment was announced. The league came down really hard on Tom Brady and the Patriots organization. Brady received a four game suspension, the team lost 1 million dollars, a 2016 First round draft pick and a 2017 fourth round pick. This punishment seems to be an overreaction to something that had no affect on the game against the Colts or the Patriots Super Bowl victory. It is expected that Brady will appeal this suspension and if he wins the appeal the suspension will likely be reduced to 2 games rather than 4.

     With the way Goodell has handled recent suspension in the league many people believe that he has overreacted and gave Brady a much harsher punishment than was necessary. Before video evidence came put to the public of Ray Rice assaulting his wife, he only received a 2 game suspension. While Brady only deflated footballs and receives a 4 game suspension and the team was dealt a rough penalty as well. Earlier this month the Jets were found guilty of tampering with Darrele Revis, which in the past has cost teams second or forth round draft picks but the Jets only lost $100,000. For some reason the Patriots lost a first round draft pick and 1 million dollars which is the highest team fine in NFL history. Roger Goodell has continued to make bad decisions as commissioner and the league needs to do something about it.

     Although the punishment was an overreaction and cost Brady too many games, it will have very little affect on the success of the team. Even if Brady loses his appeal and serves all four games I believe the team will still get off to a good start. In these games the Patriots play the Steelers, Bills, Jaguars and the Cowboys. The Steelers is at home and they will be without their star running back due to suspension for drugs. The Patriots always do well against the Bills but they do have a strong defense this year, the Jaguars are still terrible and the Cowboys lost running back DeMarco Murray to the Eagles in Free Agency. This will be the first real look at Jimmy Garoppolo and with the teams the Patriots are playing i believe the team should go 3-1 and at worst be 2-2. Brady's first game back will be against the Colts and they will defiantly not lose to the Colts after what happened last time these two teams played.