Gaslight wrote:
That draft pick taken off the Patriots could have got DeSean Jackson or Ray Rice, pretty big penalty if you ask me. Or it could have been traded into 09 to get someone at the bottom of the first round in that draft, that 1 pick cost the team 1 stud player - if the Pats had Rice or Jackson who would be able to stop them?
That is a ridiculously flimsy argument. You could have got a class player or a terrible player. You can't look at it like that retrospectively. If they took your 7th round pick you could have got a hall of fame player that wouldn't make it harsh penalty just because of the calibre of the player would it?
You can only say with any certainty that you lost 1 player and for blatant cheating, losing 1 player is hardly a harsh punishment.
Gaslight wrote:
And what's Krafts money got to do with it? he doesn't put EVERY bit of money he owns into the club, and the Patriots are run off money they make from tickets/Patriot place etc, they make that much money if revenue sharing was stopped only the Cowboys could match the spending the Patriots could do. The fine was set, and that's what it will always be, that one pick lost could have stopped the team getting a hall of famer, who knows.
His money has everything to do with it. HE is your owner so ultimately HE would be paying the fine, and your second point about Patriots place supports my point. $750,000 dollars for a team that has a billionaire owner and is self sufficient at making money would hardly hit the pockets hard.
Admit it you got off very lightly. (Not only that but the cheating tapes were "destroyed" before Spector wanted to investigate it further, so you could have been punished further.)
