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In reply to the discussion: NFL players union asks Roger Goodell to recuse himself from Tom Brady's appeal [View all]hughee99
(16,113 posts)and I can't imagine why any other QB would want to involve themselves in this either.
Goodell wanted to look strong and in-charge (after a whole season of getting beat up for a series of poor decisions) and dropped the hammer.
In the end, Brady's suspension will get dropped to 1 or 2 games, and I think Goodell would like nothing better than to have someone other than him be responsible for doing that, so he can look like he didn't go soft.
Jonathan Vilma got suspended for a full season for being the player's ring-leader for bountygate, where NFL players were encouraged and rewarded for trying to hurt other players, but he only served a 5 game suspension. Brady was "more probable than not generally aware" that someone (not him) let some air out of the footballs. There's no way the 4 game suspension stands.