Post by Admin on Apr 27, 2016 18:02:02 GMT -4
The NFL doesn't see any need to reopen settlement talks with Tom Brady and the NFL Players Association regarding the New England Patriots quarterback's four-game suspension, a league source told ESPN's Adam Schefter.
The source said that the NFL doesn't believe the NFLPA or anyone from Brady's camp has provided a reason to renew settlement discussions after the suspension was upheld by a federal appeals court earlier this week. The league believes the time for those talks has come and gone, the source said.
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Tom Brady's four-game suspension relating to the Deflategate scandal has been reinstated by a U.S. appeals court ruling Monday.
The league and attorneys for the NFLPA engaged in talks for several months last summer in an attempt to reach a settlement in Brady's appeal of the suspension for his involvement in the Deflategate scandal.
They could not come to an agreement, and on Sept. 3, U.S. District Court Judge Richard M. Berman overturned the suspension.
On Monday, a three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated the suspension. The court ruled 2-1 that commissioner Roger Goodell did not deprive Brady of "fundamental fairness" with his procedural rulings.
Goodell, speaking to reporters Wednesday in Chicago on the eve of the NFL draft, said the league would like to move forward.
"I think the most important thing from the ruling is that the judgment that the district court made last summer was incorrect. They obviously reversed that," Goodell said. "They reinforced our authority here, and they reinforced the fact that we have the facts correct, that it was a fair process and that we came to the conclusion that they supported. From our standpoint, we think that's the right decision and frankly should have been the decision last time."
On Tuesday, NFLPA executive George Atallah told ESPN Radio's Russillo & Kanell that the union is still reviewing the court's decision and weighing appeals options -- including an appeal to the full federal appeals court panel or to the Supreme Court. The NFLPA has two weeks to make a decision on an appeal.
