Miami Dolphins are hit with huge penalties for tampering with Tom Brady (twice!) and Sean Payton

The Dolphins had been disciplined Tuesday for ‘integrity of the sport’ violations by the NFL, as Miami should forfeit its 2023 first-round decide and its 2024 third-round decide.

The punishment stems from a six-month investigation relating to occasions between 2019-22, from which the group is discovered to have had ‘impermissible communications’ with each Tom Brady (on two events) and then-Saints coach Sean Payton. 

The contact with Brady was discovered to have occurred through the 2019 season and postseason (when he was on the Patriots) and through and after the 2021 season (when he was on the Buccaneers).

The contact with Payton occurred by way of his agent Don Yee in January 2022, the league mentioned. Yee can be Brady’s agent.

The investigation additionally appeared into claims that they group deliberately ‘tanked’ through the 2019 season to enhance its draft place within the 2020 draft.

The group has misplaced two draft picks because of the investigation.

The investigation discovered that the Dolphins didn’t deliberately lose video games, however that group proprietor Stephen Ross expressed a number of occasions all through the season that the group’s draft place ought to take priority over its document. 

The probe additionally discovered that an alleged $100,000 provide from Ross to then-head coach Brian Flores to lose video games was not supposed to be a critical provide.

Ross has been fined $1.5 million, faraway from all league committees indefinitely, and suspended by way of October 17 from being on the Dolphins facility.