The Dolphins were smacked with substantive penalties, including the loss of draft picks, by the NFL on Tuesday following a league investigation into tampering charges against the organization.
However, those penalties will not extend to Tom Brady and Sean Payton, whom the Dolphins spoke with despite their being under contract elsewhere, according to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport.
The NFL found that Miami had impermissible contact with Brady while he was under contract to the Patriots in 2019 and ’20 and again after the ’21 season, when he was under contract to the Buccaneers. The league also determined that the Dolphins made impermissible contact with Payton, who was under contract with the Saints. Nevertheless, the league apparently views the case as closed after punishing the franchise, according to Rapoport.
