Do you think the Deflategate investigatiion has been poorly handled?

I don't think the investigation was poorly handled, but the NFL's control of the AFC Championship game was a catastrophe.

Let's start out with the game:

This whole mess could have been avoided if the NFL officials had properly done their job and monitored the balls more closely. If the officials had not let McNally illegally remove the balls the whole deflating thing couldn't have happened.

Secondly, the NFL was notified not once but multiple times about the Pats cheating in this manner by multiple teams. And yet the NFL officials took no precautions to stop it. I disagree with the fact that the Pats should have been told. If the other team is cheating, you don't want to tell them "We are on to you. Don't cheat this one game or if you do figure out an even sneakier way to fool us."

Third, the officials still had a way to stop this whole debacle by rechecking the balls before they got put into play by measuring them, etc. But they didn't.

Fourth, they accepted balls that are now questionable because they disappeared and are now using them in a playoff game.

Fifth, according to Pats personnel, the Pats had been pulling off this same exact method for cheating, taking them to the bathroom, etc for at least half of their regular season games. That's likely every home game. Yet not one time in all of those times did the officials properly stop it.

Sixth, one of the officials was caught stealing a game ball!!

Now to the investigation:

It's the middle of the playoff run. The Pats are going to the Super Bowl. Not the best of time to be interrupting team practices, workouts and study sessions for tons of interview questions.

Secondly, it's not the easiest job in the world to get to the truth when the people you are investigating are lying to you and won't turn over evidence. For example, the ball boy denied using the restroom multiple times until video was found of him going to the restroom. He then stated he went in there and used a men's urinal when that bathroom has no urinal. He also stated that the gift items were given to him by the team when the text messages show they were given to him by Brady a week or two earlier. Using the tracking numbers on the NFL items, that again showed that the ball boy lied and that the items (worth approximately $45,000 or more) were given to him at the time that the texts state Brady gave the items to him. The Pats also stated that "Deflator" referred to the guy being on a diet when the guy was talking about footballs and the air inside of them and also while stating in the text messages that he had "a BIG NEEDLE for Brady".

Goodell wasn't the one that handed down the fines and suspension. He had someone independent do that and Goodell signed off on it. The rest of it really has been kept ongoing mainly by the Pats. Brady gives multiple talks on it, stating he didn't do it at first. Not stating that he didn't do it, but let's just see how the investigation turns out later next. Then going back to his originally story of he didn't do it again. Then we have Belichick's farst of a Bill Nye Science guy explanation with their "Nobel" prize winner giving an explanation. Of course their field was biology, not physics. And the guy worked for Bob Kraft. Not to mention Kraft comes out and after stepping off the plane for the Super Bowl, he demands an apology of all 31 other owners and Goodell and the NFL office. Kraft and Belichick also had earlier stated they would fully comply with the NFL investigation. However after the investigation found the phone texts, the Pats cut off all interviews and Brady would not release his records.

Compare that with the Falcons and Browns of "OK, we did it. We apologize for doing it. We accept the penalties."

The Pats on the other hand, "We didn't do it. There's tons of evidence that we did it but we're still claiming we didn't do it. We make some stupid excuse for deflator. We hire guys to make up our own farst scientific evidence. We demand apologies from the NFL and all of the rest of the owners. Brady doesn't turn his evidence over. We shut interviews down after evidence is found. Brady fights the interview in court, and on and on and on."

The Pats are far more to blame than Goodell for how the outcome of the investigation has created negative press for the Pats and NFL. If Brady cheated, which he likely did then he should have just came forward and stated, "Yep, I cheated. I'm very sorry. I'll take my punishment. It won't happen again." Or if he didnt', "Yep, here's my phone records and emails. Give me a lie detector test, whatever....I'm totally innocent. I want to do whatever I can to prove it. I have nothing to hide."

Blame the NFL for moronic handling of the game. But blame the Pats mainly for the whole blown out mess it has turned into. They really brought it on themselves.

goodell established himself as the new sheriff in town by slamming the pats for spygate, even though it was only a memo, not a rule they broke. He had a really tough year, lost credibility/respect, had people calling for his head, then deflate gate. When three other teams were caught tampering with the balls and nothing happened to them, used different gages comparisons, 3 out of the 4 colts balls tested were also under but they didn't continue to test them all, so many if's and buts in the report. He slams the pats again, has a heart to heart with Kraft, who suddenly sits in the corner supporting goodell , but still disagrees with the reports conclusion?

Yes