2025-2026 NFL Season Thread

[Santa Barbara]

Originally Posted by rickah88

I don't think it's the NFL being stupid, but I believe they would need to get a court order to access the info via the carrier. Since no laws were broken, I doubt that would ever happen.
I have nothing to hide but if I were accused of cheating at work, no way I'd want my employer combing through my private life.
Operative word there being "private"
I'm just Joe Average. So I can, absolutely, understand why Brady said No, as that info would be all over the planet.

Exactly.

I still don't see what matters with the cellphone to begin with. They have the texts with the two other men. Brady deleting/trashing his phone did not remove those messages. It's like the NFL investigators have no idea how the technology works.

I also agree that while I have nothing of any relevance on my computers and phones, it's not anyones business but my own what photos I have saved or what I have chosen to store on my devices. Those that are willing to bend over to any little request are the truly frightening ones. It's not about guilt or innocence but the right of use of a person's property without unjust interference. In Tom's case, maybe he had private photos, banking information, etc. secured on the device that he didn't feel comfortable turning over to Wells. That doesn't make him guilty. That makes him human.

[Tony208]

Originally Posted by dcowboy7

NFL does value woman alot.

SNF was actually tied for the #1 show among woman 18-49 & was #1 among woman 18-34.

that makes no sense

[Hatter]

Maybe more famous athletes should be like Brady. Golden boy with the hot wife, millions of dollars and jealous people trying to bring him down at all costs should be reason enough to never hold onto an electronic device too long.

[Terjyn]

Originally Posted by Santa Barbara

In Tom's case, maybe he had private photos, banking information, etc. secured on the device that he didn't feel comfortable turning over to Wells. That doesn't make him guilty. That makes him human.

He could have printed out and handed over anything he wanted.

Meaning NONE of that stuff would have gotten out. There is absolutely no reason he wouldn't do that I can think of other than either he did it, or the NFLPA pressured him not to do it.

If my employer asked me to print out a text response to something someone else texted me related to work I would do it in a heartbeat, because they wouldn't be getting anything private.

People need to stop pretending Wells asked Brady to hand over his phone, because he didn't.

As to the having the other guy's texts, my old phone saved Sent messages and received messages separately, and both had a unique count of # of messages stored. So I wouldn't necessarily have both sides of a conversation. And yes, it did totally blow chunks and made no sense.

[Terjyn]

Originally Posted by Hatter

Maybe more famous athletes should be like Brady. Golden boy with the hot wife, millions of dollars and jealous people trying to bring him down at all costs should be reason enough to never hold onto an electronic device too long.

For every jealous person trying to bring him down there's a cultist like you worshipping him with no reason whatsoever to do so...he's talented at football, not a Saint.

[Hatter]

Originally Posted by Terjyn

For every jealous person trying to bring him down there's a cultist like you worshipping him with no reason whatsoever to do so...he's talented at football, not a Saint.

We're talking about a player getting destroyed for not divulging personal property over a potential game infraction that normally warrants a small fine. Don't need to be fan or "cultist" to see the obvious.

[dcowboy7]

Originally Posted by Hatter

Considering that a simple factory restore can essentially do the exact same thing, this really doesn't mean a whole lot. The reality is that the phone company has all these records but the NFL's crack team are too stupid to realize that.

The 20pg report said that the phone co said they cant retrieve them.

[Eye Candy]

Originally Posted by dcowboy7

The 20pg report said that the phone co said they cant retrieve them.

What's the exact wording of that statement in the report?

Brady can have the same people that Hillary used, to check her emails on her server, to testify they checked the text messages on Brady's phone...

[Navster]

All Brady had to do was admit guilt and his suspension would have been cut down to 2 games yet he still declined

Btw he doesn't need to turn shit over to anyone, just admit guilt and move on

[Batman1980]

46 days till the regular season. I want Brady to play against the Cowboys so he can retire with a loss against on his resume.

[walruswarrior]

Originally Posted by Navster

All Brady had to do was admit guilt and his suspension would have been cut down to 2 games yet he still declined

Btw he doesn't need to turn shit over to anyone, just admit guilt and move on

The Deflator needs not to concern himself with trivialities of honesty lol.

[fatediesel]

Originally Posted by Moviefan1203

Having the phone destroyed on the day of the interview was a huge misstep by Brady.

I don't understand why he destroyed the phone. Why not just refuse to hand it over? It's not like the NFL can force him to hand over the phone. It looks so much worse by destroying the phone than just refusing to hand the phone over, which is fairly logical and would set a bad precedent. When the NFL was having Robert Mueller investigate them over what they knew about the Ray Rice assault video Roger Goodell (and every other league executive) turned over their company phones but were not asked to turn over their personal phones. If league executives don't have to turn their personal phones over during an investigation why should a player, especially since they had all of Brady's correspondence with McNally and Jastremski? Destroying the phone rather than refusing to hand it over makes it seem like there was something incriminating on it that needed to be destroyed.

[Moviefan1203]

Originally Posted by Darth Anakin

46 days till the regular season. I want Brady to play against the Cowboys so he can retire with a loss against on his resume.

I have similar thoughts about Week 2. When we beat the shit out of New England at The Ralph, I don't want to hear excuses from the Patriot fans.

[dcowboy7]

Originally Posted by Eye Candy

What's the exact wording of that statement in the report?

Cellphone co. actually sent a letter that was put into testimony saying they couldnt retrieve the texts.

[DuranFanWI]

I don't see anything wrong with destroying a cell phone or any other electronic equipment.

Signed,

Aaron Hernandez

[TitansFan4Life]

Man now I see why the media creams their pants for Deflategate. You guys are all over it.

It's exhausting and a dumb subject to talk about... for me, personally.

There's nothing more to add. It happened. It's over. Time to move on to other better topics. I know it's July, the boring NFL month. But damn... I thought it had been a while since I got laid... Deflategate has extended even further than that.

Enough.

[Tony208]

10,000 text messages over 4 months... 83 a day, dude texts more than a teenage girl.

[Hatter]

Originally Posted by Tony208

10,000 text messages over 4 months... 83 a day, dude texts more than a teenage girl.

His wife's a model so surely most of that are photos and replies to said photos. If it's not, well than yeah, pretty sad.

[Moviefan1203]

Well, Sheldon Richardson certainly lost himself a lot of money.

[dcowboy7]

Originally Posted by Moviefan1203

Well, Sheldon Richardson certainly lost himself a lot of money.

& wilkerson gained.