Today, word came out that Tom Brady's four game suspension for his involvement the worlds biggest story that is Deflategate, has been overturned. It is well documented what happened in the AFC Championship game against the Colts and the Wells Report at this point. Here is what this means for Tom Brady, the New England Patriots organization, Roger Goodell, and more.
This all means that Tom Brady will play every game for the New England Patriots this season barring a season ending injury or the NFL wins it's appeal. The appeal could very well be heading into 2016 into whether Brady gets suspended even then, but in all likelihood, the NFL may not win the appeal. Brady and the rest of the New England Patriot players are all thrilled about the decision and trajectory for their season changes drastically after this. Their Super Bowl odds went from 10-1 to 15-2. From a league standpoint, league commissioner Roger Goodell's reputation has hit rock bottom at this point. He handled this situation poorly as well as other suspensions and incidents like the suspensions of other players with different incidents such as Greg Hardy, Adrian Peterson, Ray Rice, Josh Gordon, Le'Veon Bell, Sheldon Richardson, and Aldon Smith. Goodell also handled Spy Gate and the New Orleans Saints bounty scandal poorly. Goodell's future may be in flux at this point as well considering how poorly these situations have been handled. Many people want Goodell out as commissioner and rightfully so. It will be interesting to see how this goes going forward and like I said before, it may take a while to have a real solution and this is far from over.
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