The rhetoric in the Deflategate drama jumped yet again on Friday when the NFL Players Association targeted NFL commissioner Roger Goodell in a court document asking federal Judge Richard Berman to vacate Tom Brady’s four-game suspension.
Echoing many of the points they made earlier to Berman that Brady was treated unfairly by the NFL, union lawyer Jeffrey Kesler said that Goodell’s written ruling upholding the league’s four-game ban was “a propaganda piece.”
“It is more smear campaign than reasoned decision,” Kessler wrote.
He hammered the league for what he said was a different standard by which it judged Brady from when he was first suspended to when his appeal was upheld.