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Report: NFL to suspend Tom Brady next week over Deflategate

By Josh Hill

Jan 22, 2015; Foxborough, MA, USA; New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady talks to the media at Gillette Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Greg M. Cooper-USA TODAY Sports
Jan 22, 2015; Foxborough, MA, USA; New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady talks to the media at Gillette Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Greg M. Cooper-USA TODAY Sports /
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Tom Brady will be suspended by the NFL for his role in the Deflategate scandal, sometime next week. 

The NFL isn’t messing around when it comes to being fair about being crazy with it’s punishments. You may have thought the NFL was just going after guys on the second and third their of stardom, but that has only given them a thirst for premium blood at the highest levels of it’s hierarchy.

Tom Brady’s role in Deflategate remains a topic of conversation after the Wells Report was released and it appears the NFL is going in on suspending him like a vampire on the neck of it’s prey.

According to the New York Daily News, Tom Brady will be suspended next week by the NFL for his part in the Deflategate scandal.

"Roger Goodell’s decision is expected to be announced next week and it is no longer a matter of if the NFL commissioner will suspend Brady, but for how long he will suspend him."

This isn’t entirely unexpected, but it still comes as a little bit of a shock in that no high profile player has been suspended like this in the history of the NFL. Ray Rice was a Pro Bowler, Adrian Peterson is a superstar but Tom Brady is a face of the league and a pillar of one of the NFL’s flagship franchises.

Suspending him will be unprecedented and will send a loud message to the rest of the league that everything from beating your wife to deflating a football will result in Roger Goodell playing judge, jury and executioner in your fate — and the hammer will come down hard.

The question is how many games will his suspension end up being?

Some have called for an entire year while other have asked that the Patriots Super Bowl XLIX win retroactively be taken away.

What will probable end up happening is Brady will be suspended for a game for two at the beginning of the season to send a message to the Patriots. Anything more than four games will be overkill and anything that truly hurts the Patriots probably won’t happen.

But a lot of this probably stems from so many folks saying Roger Goodell won’t touch a flagship franchise like the Patriots — basically daring a man who gets off on going after non-criminals in his league to punish his poster boy quarterback.

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