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Doing, whether it relates to the integrity of the game or whether it doesn t, there will be a significant punishment. reporter: the patriots will lose their first round draft pick in 2016 and fourth round pick in 2017. as well as facing a $1 million fine. the biggest team fine in nfl history. as for those locker room attendants including the self proclaimed deflator both have been suspended indefinitely without pay. that was peter alexander reporting. joining me now, daily beast writer robert silverman who covers sports and wrote the column now let professor nfl lecture you on morality and ethics. i read your piece very early this morning and thought you made some excellent points particularly as it relates to the nfl and this moral high ground that either they ve placed themselves on or we the consumer, the fans have. well yes. i think the point is that not that the suspension is too long or too short or just or unjust that can be argued by all kinds ....
It was break determined, no fairness in the wells investigation whatsoever. so that is the background. ted wells on this conference call in the last hour a couple highlights from what he said. first of all he pointed to jim mcnally. he s the locker room attendant patriots employee who had access to those footballs before the game potentially and who also in those text messages called himself the deflateor. ted wells pointed to that text message and said that is not circumstantial evidence, that is hard evidence. he said no one can ignore the implications of that text and he chided the pay chided the patriots for not making him available when he found the text. and ted wells saying tom brady was totally cooperative with their investigation except in one key area and that is the text messages digital records from his phone that ted wells said would shine light on that deflator text and on the other ....
Circumstantial evidence. he said that s direct evidence. he said he believes in the bottom of my heart, that not only was there fraud here committed by the patriots but he believes that tom brady knew about. he explained that that probably language that more probable than not was meant to directly meet the nfl s standard. and we ve talked about this on the show a couple of time. that s what the nfl rules say. that s what they say is their standard of whether you violated something or not. so that is why he used that language. then he got into the idea of impeding the investigation. he gave a couple specific examples. he said with the patriots, he said that he interviewed jim mcnally this is a key guy who took the footballs into the bathroom and that he interviewed him once. but then after that interview is when he found the text message where mcnally referred to himself as the deflator. he wanted another interview with jim mcnally. and he said the patriots not only refused that i ....
Getting the impression you think perhaps, just perhaps, those of us in the media who went crows over this before the super bowl are pumping up the story to perhaps extraordinary degree? you know, you know, a story like this any time there s brady involved, it s like a one-lugged duck. one-legged duck. everybody gets excited and moves to the corner. yeah. i think i think people want i said this before we talked about this before when this happened. people it s brady. this is the brady and the patriots. ever since the spygate situation, people have been this gets people fired up in a lot of ways. the nfl loved the story during the super bowl because it distracted from the more serious issues going on with the nfl. for this, you know i think now that it s become a brady thing, kind of could see this coming when braidy had his press conference had the super bowl. he was just like, hey what are you talking about? i m just here to play football. i m tom brady. in this report, t ....
That this won t happen, again. and we won t have to talk about this because much like the bounty situation and much like the video situation with new england, spygate, the discipline is always strong enough to where it discourages anybody to try it again. unsurprisingly, gentlemen, jon stewart is having some fun at brady s expense. let s take a look. there s not much that can get to me any more. so i thought. he [bleep] knew! he knew that the balls were being deflated! brady knew! they called himself the deflator. one of the guys in the locker room at the behest of tom brady called himself the deflator. what was the other guy s name? joey cheats at football. ....