Roger Goodell is standing by his ruling.
The NFL commissioner on Wednesday confirmed he received a letter from Patriots owner Robert Kraft requesting the return of the team's draft picks as part of the Deflategate penalties, but clarified he isn't changing the disciplinary action he handed down.
"I responded to him two weeks ago and told him that I had considered his views and I didn't think there was any new information in there that would cause us to alter the discipline," Goodell said, via ESPN. "So there will be no change to the discipline."
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The response comes as no surprise. Kraft told reporters Monday at the NFL owners meeting in Boca Raton, Fla., that he sent a letter to Goodell last month requesting the ruling be overturned, though he wasn't optimistic about the outcome.
"I personally believe that when the league made their decision, they did not factor in the Ideal Gas Law. They admitted that publicly. They had a full year of being able to observe Tom Brady play with all the rules of whatever the NFL was, and make any judgments there," Kraft said. "We have laid it out pretty straightforward. And now it's up for them to decide.
"They did their own testing, they have results, and for whatever reason, they haven't shared them with any of us. We actually requested at the beginning of the season that they test every game throughout the league and do that, but they chose to do it their way."
The NFL punished the Patriots by stripping the team of a 2016 first-round draft choice, a 2017 fourth-round draft choice, suspending quarterback Tom Brady for four games and fining the franchise $1 million. Brady's suspension, however, was overturned in federal court and the NFL has since appealed the ruling.