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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft hopes his decision not to appeal his team's punishment for the&amp;nbsp;Deflategate&amp;nbsp;controversy will help Tom Brady's appeal of his four-game suspension, he told Larry King.&amp;nbsp;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Kraft announced on Tuesday that he will not appeal the sanctions levied against his franchise by the NFL.&amp;nbsp;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Patriots were fined $1 million and docked two draft picks\u2014a 2016 first-round pick and a fourth-round pick in 2017. Quarterback&amp;nbsp;Tom Brady&amp;nbsp;was suspended for the first four games of the 2015 season and has already&amp;nbsp;filed an appeal&amp;nbsp;of the suspension. NFLPA spokesman George Atallah&amp;nbsp;said&amp;nbsp;the Patriots' decision \"will not impact\" Brady's appeal.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;\u2022&amp;nbsp;SI's complete coverage of Deflategate&lt;/strong&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is set to hear Brady's appeal after the NFL reportedly rejected the players association's request to have Goodell&amp;nbsp;recuse himself from the proceedings. The union wanted Goodell to appoint a neutral party to hear the appeal because it was&amp;nbsp;Goodell who decided the original punishment.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;- Dan Gartland&lt;/em&gt;\r\n&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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