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Daily Talker: "We Won't Appeal"

Patriots owner Robert Kraft is throwing in the towel when it comes to the team's fight with the NFL.

"I don't want to continue the rhetoric that's gone on for the last four months," Kraft said Tuesday in San Francisco.

"I'm going to accept, reluctantly, what [NFL commissioner Roger Goodell] has given to us, and not continue this dialogue and rhetoric. And we won't appeal."

The Patriots were fined $1 million and penalized a first-round draft pick in 2016 and a fourth-round draft pick in 2017 after the NFL-commissioned Wells report deemed them to have acted improperly and failed to cooperate with the investigation.

Kraft did not address whether quarterback Tom Brady would continue his own fight to appeal his four-game suspension. However, shortly after Kraft finished speaking, NFLPA assistant executive director of external affairs George Atallah tweeted that Brady will continue his appeal.

What do you think of Robert Kraft's decision to end his fight with the NFL over the team's Deflategate punishment?

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