"If you worked for us, you would have J... Develin Jerseyalready released today a statement to the effect of, 'ESPN, you've got it wrong. You do not have full information, you are irresponsibly reporting information that is untrue and you need to stop,'" Glaser wrote.

Pash responded that he considered that a "personal and accusatory" [gee, you think?] and that was about it.

The false stories were never refuted until the facts came out buried deep in Wells' 243-page report.

New England released only select emails on Friday so who knows what else was written in the thread or what else it is holding back. What's clear is that early on in this, New England should have stopped trusting the NFL.

Instead Kraft did, htt... burned and is now eager to air some dirty laundry. With nothing left to lose, the Patriots may make Goodell wish he handled things differently.

It may also remind him that Kraft is as reasonable as anyone could hope for but hardly afraid of confrontation.

How tough is he? Consider back in 2013, when police were closing in on, but had not yet arrested Aaron Hernandez for murdering Odin Lloyd. One morning Hernandez showed up at Gillette Stadium to lift weights. Cops and media were hovering outside, helicopters churning above, as speculation ramped up. Inside Gillette, Patriots employees were smartly running for the hills, eager to not bump into a possible killer, if only because any interaction might drag them into a police investigation and maybe an eventual trial.

Kraft saw it differently. He heard Hernandez was in the weight room and against everyone's advice marched directly to it, found[url=http://www.patriotsofficialonlineshop.com/jamie-collins-jersey_c-408.h...
the tight end working out and promptly pulled him into a small office to the side. It was there he told Hernandez to look him in the eye and tell him, man-to-man, if he did it.

"He said he was not involved, that he was innocent," Kraft would testify at Hernandez's 2015 trial, where the owner was a critical prosecution witness because Hernandez offered an alibi that essentially forced his defense team to acknowledge his presence at the murder.

Robert Kraft really isn't someone to be trifled with.

Roger Goodell [url=http://www.redskinsshopnfl.com/Authentic-Desean-Jackson-Jersey]DeSean Jackson Jerseytrifled with him though.

Earlier this week, Kraft apologized to Patriots fans for backing down on the fight and mocked Goodell as someone controlled by lawyers. This is like some kind of country club insult.

It was clear their one-time friendship was over and Goodell had not just lost a chief confidant, but created a bitter enemy. Kraft is savvy and freed from any sense of decorum or loyalty to the league. He knows very well how to speak a language of owners.

Friday's emails aren't about exonerating the Patriots. That ship has mostly sailed. It is about showing a league office drunk on power, overwhelmed by prejudice and completely ignoring the well-reasoned requests of a team.

How does Roger Goodell explain that kind of behavior, a league office [url=http://www.redskinsshopnfl.com/Authentic-Dexter-Manley-Jersey]http://www.re... making up stories about a team and, at the very least, letting them sit out there and cause havoc?

That's the question Robert Kraft wants front and center in front of his fellow owners and it's clear he's going to make it happen by any means necessary now.

So let the email leaking commence. "Personal and accusatory" may be just getting started.