The NFL has now seen two major investigations come to a close in the last two days. On Monday, former federal judge Sue L. Robinson in the Deshaun Watson case, announcing that the Browns quarterback would be suspended six games to begin the 2022 campaign. On Tuesday, the NFL announced the findings of the tampering and tanking case against the Dolphins, who were hit with a hefty punishment for violating the "integrity of the game." The NFL announced it stripped the Dolphins of two draft picks including a 2023 first-round selection after finding the organization guilty of tampering with Tom Brady and Sean Payton while they were under contract with other NFL teams. Dolphins owner Stephen Ro s was fined and suspended as a result of the investigation. Below is a complete breakdown of the NFL's findings in the tampering and tanking case as well as a breakdown of what this result means for the Dolphins moving forward. MORE: The NFL launched an investigation into the Dolphins after allegations made by Brian Flores. The former Miami coach alleged that the team had urged him to tamper and tank during the early stages of his three-year tenure with the team. The NFL announced its findings from that investigation on Tuesday. The league found that the Dolphins and owner Stephen Ro s violated the NFL's anti-tampering policy on multiple occasions beginning in August of 2019. As a result, the league is taking the following actions to punish the Dolphins, per the : Lewis Thorpe Jersey The Dolphins will forfeit the clubs first-round selection in the 2023 NFL draft and third-round selection in the 2024 NFL Draft. Mr. Ro s is suspended through October 17, 2022. During this period, he may not be present at the Dolphins facility and may not represent the club at any team or NFL event. He may not attend any League meeting prior to the Annual Meeting in 2023, is removed from all League committees indefinitely, and fined $1.5 million. Mr. Bruce Beal, Dolphins Vice Chairman/Limited Partner, may not attend any League meeting for the remainder of the 2022 season and is fined $500,000. While the Dolphins were found guilty of tampering, the NFL said its investigation uncovered no evidence that Miami intentionally lost games in 2019 or that any executives, including Ro s, compelled them to do so. As such, the Dolphins were not punished for tanking. Still, the tampering results were damning enough, so the NFL came down hard on the Dolphins. (SN/Getty) Rumors circulated during the 2022 NFL offseason that Ro s and the Dolphins after both retired from the NFL. It turns out that was true. The Dolphins held "impermi sible communications" with both Brady and Payton as they looked to retool their organization during and after the 2021 NFL season, according to the investigation's findings. But their illegal pursuit of Brady dates began years earlier. Tom Brady According to the , Miami first contacted Brady ahead of his final season with the Patriots in 2019. The discu sions between Brady and the team were orchestrated by Dolphins vice chairman Bruce Beal under the watch of Ro s. Those communications began as early as August 2019 and continued throughout the 2019 season and post-season. These numerous and detailed discu sions were conducted by Mr. Beal, who in turn kept Mr. Ro s and other Dolphins executives informed of his discu sions with Mr. Brady. That wasn't the only time that the Dolphins reached out to Brady impermi sibly. They did so again in he was a member of the Buccaneers in 2021. This time, both Beal and Ro s were actively involved in discu sions and had a specific proposal for Brady. Those discu sions began no later than early December 2021 and focused on Mr. Brady becomi
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