Normally when you see Bill Belichick coached ex-Patriots get together on television, they fall in line and defend their own. They defend the coach, they defend their teammates and rarely do they expose anything out of the ordinary.
However, Deflategate is not any ordinary issue and last Friday, former Patriots Damien Woody and Tedy Bruschi, now current ESPN NFL analysts got into a heated debate that would put Skip Bayless and Stephen A. Smith to shame. Bruschi took Tom Brady’s side and defended his friend saying that Brady would never have instructed anyone to deflate game balls. Woody believed the Ted Wells report saying that Brady probably knew about the reduced air pressure in the game balls and most likely instructed team locker room attendants to take air out.
Woody said it wouldn’t be the first time an athlete was caught cheating and he believed Brady was the mastermind behind Deflategate:
“From the texts of Jim McNally, him labeling himself ‘the Deflator’ tells me that this wasn’t the only time. When you’ve given yourself a label, to me that insinuates that this action has happened multiple times. I’m looking at it as this has happened multiple times, not only this particular situation, but it’s happened in the past before.”
On the contrary, Bruschi could not and would not believe the Wells report:
“Tom Brady would not tell anyone to do anything illegal.”
It was a rather interesting segment on NFL Live as you can see for yourself:
https://youtu.be/tULjStNOpVc
It’s interesting to see two ex-Patriots argue over their beloved quarterback and greatly differ on this opinion. However as stated at the beginning, this is not any ordinary story and even with Spygate before it, it certainly makes for some interesting television.
[Pro Football Talk/Comcast SportsNet New England]
