{"id":61086,"date":"2015-07-29T15:35:17","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T19:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=61086"},"modified":"2015-07-29T16:31:26","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T20:31:26","slug":"its-the-cover-up-that-gets-ya-every-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61086","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s the Cover-Up That Gets Ya Every Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even though the NFL plays football, this looks more <em><a href=\"http:\/\/static.nfl.com\/static\/content\/public\/photo\/2015\/07\/28\/0ap3000000504265.pdf\">like a slam dunk<\/a> <\/em>to me than anything else.<\/p>\n<p>You shouldn\u2019t have prevented the other two guys involved from testifying, Tom.\u00a0 You also shouldn\u2019t have ordered your assistant to destroy your old phone immediately before your initial interview with investigators &#8211; particularly when you knew investigators (and your employer) wanted to examine it.\u00a0 You shouldn&#8217;t have hidden the fact it had been destroyed from everyone for roughly 3 1\/2 months. And you damn sure shouldn\u2019t have claimed that destroying your old phone was merely something you routinely did on getting a new one when you hadn\u2019t done that to its immediate predecessor.<\/p>\n<p>You should have owned up and come clean.\u00a0 You&#8217;d probably be playing after the 1st game this season if you had.\u00a0 And your team likely wouldn&#8217;t be out two draft picks and $1M, either &#8211; though it might have lost some $$$.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;ll give you this much:\u00a0 you stuck to your story, even after it became clear it was as plausible as ISIS suddenly converting to Buddhism <em>en masse<\/em> and turning pacifist.<\/p>\n<p>But it was . . . well, it was stupid.\u00a0 This guy<em><a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/13332599\/new-england-patriots-qb-tom-brady-deflategate-suspension-ian-oconnor\"> puts it all in perspective <\/a><\/em>damn well.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy the in-season vacation.\u00a0 And the addendum to your legacy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though the NFL plays football, this looks more like a slam dunk to me than &hellip; <a title=\"It&#8217;s the Cover-Up That Gets Ya Every Time\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61086\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It&#8217;s the Cover-Up That Gets Ya Every Time<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,26,170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-blather","category-who-knows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}