Bob Kravitz isn’t done yet.
The Indianapolis columnist who initially broke the DeflateGate story in the hours following the AFC Championship Game presumably felt more vindicated than most when the Wells Report was released Wednesday. The 243-page document supported Kravitz’s early reporting while more importantly implicated New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, stating he likely knew team employees deflated footballs.
Now Kravitz is moving on to the punishment the NFL should hand down in the case. Back in February, Kravitz pushed for the league to come down hard on Patriots owner Robert Kraft and head coach Bill Belichick if New England was found guilty, but he since has changed his tune to focus solely on Brady. In a column published Thursday, Kravitz dropped the hammer on Brady, suggesting a two- to four-game suspension for the quarterback.
Kravitz took it one step further, though, adding Brady must throw himself “on the sword” and “beg forgiveness” if he wants to salvage his reputation and legacy.
“If I was Brady — and if I was, I’d be a dashing young man with a rich, supermodel wife and a golden right arm — I would beg forgiveness and be done with it,” Kravitz writes. “I’d go on ESPN, or Oprah, or wherever people prefer to do their public mea culpas these days, and share the truth. Then I’d wait for the fallout, which, I suspect, would be mostly favorable.”
The columnist went on to say the only way Brady can move past the tiresome controversy is by fessing up to any wrongdoing with his “sad, puppy dog eyes.”
“The crime against football was bad, bad enough, but the cover up, as was the case in Watergate, is eminently worse,” Kravitz added. “If Brady is smart — and he was smart enough to marry a multimillionaire super model — he will flash sad, puppy dog eyes and come clean on this whole matter. It’s his best, really his only, option.”
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