Kraft ask Goodell for draft picks back

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When someone steals something from you, asking that they give it back is a reasonable request...however, when you act like Bobby did, you're probably never getting it back.
 
PatsFanLisa said:
Reading now that Robert Kraft, at this morning's meeting, said that he wrote a letter to the Commissioner asking for his 1st-round pick back, outlined his reasons, and has "put his best foot forward."

Nothing will come of it. I wonder if there was a response.
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I'd like to take this opportunity to draft a letter for Mr Kraft....

Dear Dipshit,

Let's dispense with anything like the niceties. When you **** someone over it comes back to haunt you eventually so I want to make it clear what is going to happen going forward.

One of these days, soon by the looks of it, you are going to do something stupid. You can't help it, it's part of being an empty suit.

When this has happened in the past I have been there to cover you ass. They next time I will be laughing my ass off.

You think Jones is going to cover for you? He moved in executive session to fire you 3 years ago. You think you've got a fancy new friend in Kronke? He got what he wanted and doesn't give the smallest of shits about you or any one of us going forward.

So Rog, remember this, some day in the not so distant future you will be in need of a calming influence who is skilled at getting 31 multi-billionaires to play nice, and you'll look across the table at me with pleading eyes and I will flip you the double bird.

Go **** Yourself asshole
BK
 
Darth Despot said:
I'd like to take this opportunity to draft a letter for Mr Kraft....

Dear Dipshit,

Let's dispense with anything like the niceties. When you **** someone over it comes back to haunt you eventually so I want to make it clear what is going to happen going forward.

One of these days, soon by the looks of it, you are going to do something stupid. You can't help it, it's part of being an empty suit.

When this has happened in the past I have been there to cover you ass. They next time I will be laughing my ass off.

You think Jones is going to cover for you? He moved in executive session to fire you 3 years ago. You think you've got a fancy new friend in Kronke? He got what he wanted and doesn't give the smallest of shits about you or any one of us going forward.

So Rog, remember this, some day in the not so distant future you will be in need of a calming influence who is skilled at getting 31 multi-billionaires to play nice, and you'll look across the table at me with pleading eyes and I will flip you the double bird.

Go **** Yourself asshole
BK
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That works.
 
Darth Despot said:
I'd like to take this opportunity to draft a letter for Mr Kraft....

Dear Dipshit,

Let's dispense with anything like the niceties. When you **** someone over it comes back to haunt you eventually so I want to make it clear what is going to happen going forward.

One of these days, soon by the looks of it, you are going to do something stupid. You can't help it, it's part of being an empty suit.

When this has happened in the past I have been there to cover you ass. They next time I will be laughing my ass off.

You think Jones is going to cover for you? He moved in executive session to fire you 3 years ago. You think you've got a fancy new friend in Kronke? He got what he wanted and doesn't give the smallest of shits about you or any one of us going forward.

So Rog, remember this, some day in the not so distant future you will be in need of a calming influence who is skilled at getting 31 multi-billionaires to play nice, and you'll look across the table at me with pleading eyes and I will flip you the double bird.

Go **** Yourself asshole
BK
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I believe these exact sentiments have been communicated to Goodell behind the scenes.
 
By the way i'm reading thing Krafts letter is pointless. As its presented it comes of as a "pleeeeeaaaaasse Roger can we have the pick back, please". I mean, the letter was sent to the same bastard who is behind all of this...

The Clement thing looks more promising.
 
Don Banks from SI nails it:

Robert Kraft’s Deflategate letter isn’t just a message to Goodell

I suppose it never hurts to ask. Not that Patriots owner Robert Kraft sounds optimistic that his letter will produce its desired result. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has been very vulnerable to appeals of his decision-making of late, but only in a court of law or before an arbitrator. Not so much when an NFL owner merely sits down and writes him a strongly-worded missive asking him to overturn perhaps his most heavy-handed edict yet.

Make no mistake, in disclosing Monday that he wrote Goodell a letter more than a month ago beseeching the commissioner to reinstate the first- and fourth-round draft picks that New England lost in the league’s Deflategate ruling—as well as throw out Tom Brady’s original four-game suspension—the Patriots’ owner was actually addressing his team’s outraged fans more than he was the commissioner.

That’s why it was Kraft writing that letter, rather than a high-priced team of attorneys. Even if the latter represents a long shot, the former has no shot to succeed. Which Kraft seems to fully grasp but can’t admit for appearances’ sake. With the draft looming about five weeks away, he wants to be seen as standing up for his team in the eyes of the fans, while remaining a team player in the eyes of the league. Thus, a letter, but no lawyers. Might as well fire off a terse note to the White Star Line, voicing his displeasure about how that whole maiden voyage of the Titanic turned out.

“I personally wrote a letter to the commissioner responding to his comment that if any new facts came up, he would take them into consideration,” said Kraft here, convening with reporters on the first full day of the NFL’s annual meeting at the Boca Raton Resort. “I personally believe that when the league made their decision, they did not factor in the Ideal Gas Law. They admitted that publicly. They had a full year of being able to observe Tom Brady play with all the rules of whatever the NFL was, and make any judgments there. We have laid it out pretty straightforward and now it’s up to them to decide.”

Kraft’s case that Brady was Brady in 2015, even with the NFL controlling what happens to the inflation level of footballs more closely than ever, makes solid sense. But it was pretty telling that Kraft repeatedly declined to say if he received any reply to his letter from Goodell, with his near-silence speaking volumes. Probably because he didn’t get one, or ever even expected to. Asked if he was hopeful of swaying the commissioner to see the Patriots’ viewpoint, Kraft would only allow that “I pray and desire.”

But prayer and desire aren’t going to get it done in this case, Bob. Not when the NFL is still fighting in appellate court to reinstate its right to suspend Brady, with arguments being heard earlier this month in the league’s attempt to reverse a lower court’s decision to vacate Brady’s suspension. I don’t think the NFL would be wasting its time in that legal effort if Kraft’s letter had struck just the right chord of logic in Goodell’s mind.

We’ve seen this type of have-it-both-ways stance from Kraft before. He wants to be a seen as a good league guy, and he wants to also represent the fighting nature of his fans. And it’s difficult to convincingly pull off that tricky little tandem, because it’s two wildly different constituencies.

“We’ve done everything we can do and I actually want our fans to know, I empathize with the way they feel,” Kraft said. “We have put our best case forward and that’s in the league’s hands now.”

Last year, Kraft announced that he would accept the league’s punishment decision and drop the matter for the good of the league, then bristled when Brady was slapped with a four-game suspension, in addition to the loss of those two draft picks and a $1 million fine. But if he was inclined to match the NFLPA in its legal fight against the league in Brady’s case, Kraft would have long since already opened that new front in this 14-month war.

“When you join the NFL it’s a partnership and you agree to abide by certain rules and conditions,” said the side of Kraft that’s loyal to the league. “We have tried to work the system as best we can, and now it’s working itself out.”

But it will work itself out without Kraft considering a legal challenge to the league, as he made clear when he was asked if any such option still remained.

“I’m excited about the upcoming season and I’m trying to look forward,” he said. “We’ve covered that as best we can. I’m moving on from that.”

Moving on doesn’t mean Kraft couldn’t linger long enough to take one last look back at 2015, when he responded to a question about his disappointment in the NFL refusing to share its year’s worth of PSI readings as part of the football inflation testing procedures. Again, he’s a bit torn between leaving his team’s Deflategate saga in the past and keeping the fight alive.

“I was debating whether to say that, but you can put your own interpretation,” Kraft said. “That’s why I hesitated. They did their own testing, they have results, and for whatever reason, they haven’t shared them with any of us. We actually requested at the beginning of the season that they test every game throughout the league and do that, but they chose to do it their own way.”

And there’s only so much Kraft is willing to protest about that perceived injustice. The Patriots’ way is of course quite famous. But in this case, Kraft’s way is to try and have one foot still firmly planted in both worlds, as he has all along in this never-ending melodrama. He wrote a stern letter to Goodell, but in reality it was obviously a message meant to be delivered to a different audience.
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bideau said:
Don Banks from SI nails it:

Robert Kraft’s Deflategate letter isn’t just a message to Goodell
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I am so tired of the media reading into everything. I am not sure what people want from Kraft at this point? And why everything is deemed a PR move. He said he regretted his decision to accept the penalties last year. He has since supported Brady, continued to update the Wells in context report and has written a letter to Goodell. He has also been working behind the scenes along with Jonathan to get Goodell's power stripped which appears will happen as soon as this league begins. That is maybe the best news of all as it may get Brady's suspension settled in the process along with Adrian Peterson as well and ensure that Goodell is not able to run his crap show again.

It is not perfect and fans will always be irate at what went down but the constant berating of Kraft's decision from last year is getting really old and tiresome.

And none of this rant is aimed at you bideau. Just venting ...
 
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/1...-roger-goodell-letter-asking-draft-picks-back


BOCA RATON, Fla. -- New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft said Monday that he wrote a letter to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell over a month ago requesting that the league reinstate the draft picks stripped as part of the Deflategate penalties, as well as the four-game suspension of quarterback Tom Brady, but he didn't sound optimistic it would spark a change.

Kraft said his letter was in response to Goodell's remarks that if any new facts were learned, Goodell would reconsider the punishment of a 2016 first-round pick, 2017 fourth-round pick, the four-game suspension of Brady and a $1 million fine.

"I personally believe that when the league made their decision, they did not factor in the Ideal Gas Law. They admitted that publicly. They had a full year of being able to observe Tom Brady play with all the rules of whatever the NFL was, and make any judgments there," Kraft told reporters at the Boca Raton Resort. "We have laid it out pretty straightforward. And now it's up for them to decide."

Asked if Goodell responded to the letter, Kraft, who had fielded multiple questions on the topic, said he was moving on.
 
Kraft said his letter was in response to Goodell's remarks that if any new facts were learned, Goodell would reconsider the punishment of a 2016 first-round pick, 2017 fourth-round pick, the four-game suspension of Brady and a $1 million fine.

How about the new facts that they learned from checking ball pressures this past season. Why doesn't Kraft ask for those numbers to be released to the public. Its time for someone
to put some pressure on the idiot in charge to come clean. After all INTEGRITY!
 
There a better chance of me getting signed by the pats. Then Goodell ever returning those picks & his fine to pats.
 
king of kings said:
There a better chance of me getting signed by the pats. Then Goodell ever returning those picks & his fine to pats.
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Just need some help calculating the odds here: Are you expected to be drafted in the 1st round this year?
 
Sigh.......

I may as well move all the related posts from the DG thread over to here so a full day's worth of conversation doesn't get overlooked.

:banghead:
 
PatsFanLisa said:
The fault lies with the fact that his in-house counsel, Jeffrey Pash, advised him to run with this and furthered his advise to Roger by pursuing Exponent and Wells, giving them HIS agenda.
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I think Pash told Roger not to but his Jets Alumni Front Office had other ideas and pushed it forward with leaks. I think Wells was brought in with Exponent because Pash knew they would prostitute themselves out for the money.

patfan64 said:
Can you rush the passer?
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I have been known to rush a Buffet
 
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