tom brady and peyton manning in 2006 created this rule whereby the home team would supply each team would supply its own footballs before the home team did. well, it s pretty clear that there was a reason for that. these guys know what they want. they know exactly what they want. and the equipment managers, the guys who take the new footballs and get them ready for that. they re the ones who break them in, rub dirt on them and all that. so the idea that these two guys would do this without the awareness of tom brady is according to ted wells and his group preposterous. well, back in january, we all know, this everybody whether you follow sports or not, tom brady denied knowing anything about what happened to those balls. let s watch him. are you comfortable within yourself that nobody on sunday on the patriots side did anything wrong? i have no knowledge of anything. i have no knowledge of any wrongdoing of you re comfortable saying nobody did anything wrong? yeah, i m
repeat offenders in terms of crossing goodell s office in terms of cheating. arlen specter wanted the senate involved in that. let me ask you guys in all seriousness, one of the equipment managers goes into a bathroom, a one-toilet bathroom but with 24 footballs. i mean that s funny. he squeezes in there, got 24 footballs into the toilet. he didn t go to the bathroom. he went to the bathroom to do something with these nobody walks into a bathroom with these 24 footballs. the whole thing is a ludicrous it s like a saturday night live picture. but he did it because the quarterback needed to have had a better grip on the ball. and especially in cold weather. we ve got two balls here we re going to bring out later in the show in our roundtable. and we ve tried these by every producer here men and women both, and everybody agrees there s a difference in the grip. the 10.5 pressure and 12.5 is a big difference. you can get your thumb into one, you can get a good grip on that ball.
quarterback haves theirs have their idiosyncrasies. maybe the way he puts his hands under his tail. they may do certain things with their shoes. quarterbacks are kind of goofy sometimes. let me bring in a great one. saij a former nfl trb, terrence moore with us tonight. national sports columnist and also we ve got ben with us a former nfl linebacker and host in minneapolis. gentlemen, great to have you with us tonight. sage, what were your idiosyncrasies and don t tell me you didn t have any. well i m goofy like the other quarterbacks. i like my footballs a certain way and as the league progresses, my career progressed, i like the balls worked as much as possible. i got to the minnesota vikings, those equipment managers have a great way to work the football. put them in the steam room, they got worked in.
hydro boost. from neutrogena. a pro football quarterback is used to taking big hits, but super bowl winner tom brady is getting hit real hard from the entire league. and its front office. he s calling the nfl s report on the football pressure scandal disappointing and also flawed. that s the report that determined brady probably knew full well that he was playing with an underinflated football during a division championship game back in february. the report even detailed some text messages between equipment managers joking about how they deflated some of the balls to help their own quarterback s performance. legal analyst mel robbins is here. i suppose we should call it deep in the heart of patriots
how we keep the rules, strike zones, everything how much time you have to throw a pitch. you start messing with numbers, you re messing with the game itself. tom brady s agent donald ye blasted the record and suggested the conclusions were delivered for the benefit of the nfl. quote, the wells report with all due respect, is a significant and it shall disappointment. its omission of key facts and lines of inquiry suggest the investigators reached a conclusion first and then determined so-called facts later. this report contains significant and tragic flaws and it is common knowledge in the legal industry that reports like this are generally written for the benefit of the purchaser. steven, he s arguing, the lawyer defending, of course the quarterback, that this is all home cooking. this was done by the nfl to make the nfl look good and to stick it to the patriots equipment managers and the quarterback. well, he might have a point. this is a report purchased by nfl. this is a report