I feel like the Wells report has enough evidence in it to show Brady was knowingly part of what was going on. Again, my hope is that Brady sues the NFL and his phone records/emails/text messages are subpoena'd. My guess is, you'll see Brady accept whatever goes down in his appeal, because anybody with common sense can see he's guilty as **** and wants no part of the judicial system actually seeing the evidence.
this is what i know
1. brady played with 'fat' and 'heavy' football against the Jets 10/16/2014.
2. brady was angry that his ball was tampered by refs - ball boys measured the ball and it was 16psi.
brady obviously hated playing with 16psi football. did brady just tell ball boys to
1. 'boys. i hated that frigign balloon! you are fired if i ever have to play with the balloon again!'
2. 'boys. i want my ball to be at 12.5. say it with me. 12.5. 13.5? you are fired. 14.5? you are fired. 16 like last time? you are fired'
and if you ever played football - if ball is too under inflated, it actually hurt your performance. for a RB? it can help(but no real difference between 11.5 vs. 12.5. but for a QB who throws football for living? it can hurt. see the post above.
and remember brady already has huge hands.
pioli's comment about brady's hand
https://espn.go.com/blog/boston/new..._/id/4759228/combine-report-qbs-and-hand-size
if brady was 6fter with a small hands i understand the logic of playing with 11.5 psi football. but brady is 6ft 4 3/8 with huge hand.
my common sense says
1. brady likes to play at 12.5 and 1psi loss happened naturally (which the science under ideal gas law already proved by multiple experiments by many experts).
2. brady made sure 10/16/2014 doesn't happen again even though brady actually plays better with properly or over inflated football (against the jets, colts, and seahawks - brady played flawlessly)
3. it's been a non issue. after all this issue was raised just now. if brady cheated all his career then maybe somebody would've brought it up. again, 11.5 vs 12.5 has no real difference. you can't even tell.
this fiasco would've been absolutely non story if it was carson palmer or alex smith. all they had to do was warn the pats.