With another edition of Courtroom Football in the long-running Brady v. Goodell saga, I am interested in where Judge Berman takes the proceedings today.
The content of the briefs filed last Friday was largely as expected, with a couple of interesting sidebars. Although Judge Berman at one point had told the parties to “tone down the rhetoric,” the NFLPA’s recent filing amplified it. The union got personal with the NFL and Goodell, ratcheting up the stakes by using the phrase “smear campaign” and by accusing the league of 1) a biased investigation to achieve a desired result, and 2) moving the target on Brady’s transgressions, now with trumped-up charges following the Wells report’s innocuous “generally aware” standard.