by Tony Renteria

Tom Brady says he’s innocent: New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady’s lawyers told him exactly what to say and he told the equipment managers and ball boys to deflate the ball not during the AFC Championship but to deflate the balls during pre season at the beginning of last season. They just kept deflating the ball all last season. It just so happened to be over the course of time that people picked up on it.

You have to look back at what Brady said and dissect it and he doesn’t make a comment on it unless he has a lawyer tell him what to say. This is a truthful statement if I had asked you to deflate to the balls the entire season and then I say “I did not ask them to deflate the ball in the AFC Championship” that statement is 100% true.

Brady didn’t ask the equipment staff to deflate for the AFC Championship game as they were doing it the entire season long. It was a Baltimore Ravens player that told the Indianapolis Colts players to watch out for it as the Ravens picked up on it during the season. Brady is trying to reduce his suspension from four games to one or two.

Keep in mind that all of Brady’s legal fees are being taken care of by the Player’s Association and Brady can maintain his innocence all he wants and he will not pay the bill for it. The idea of the NFL disciplining Brady for breaking his cell phone is not covered under the NFL bargaining agreement. Remember when Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Rothlesberger had his intimate with the lady in the bathroom and the cover up was worse than the crime.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell would like to say, ‘this is what’s going on and I have control” when the players are trying to circumvent that from him that’s when the hammer comes down. Four games suspended for under deflating a football may seem like a lot but it’s really four games for Brady who really led a conspiracy to make sure that the NFL could not get to the 100 percent truth.

A 457 page transcript came out on Tuesday on Deflategate and Brady has maintained his innocence. Brady said he never had any discussion with the ball boys regarding deflating football. He also said that no one in management or the coaching staff asked him to tamper with footballs during the AFC Championship.

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