he said the equipment managers were not candid. okay. tom brady was not forth right. and the team did not allow to equipment managers to be interviewed another time. if this an obstruction of the investigation. if brady had said i like it underinflateded and they know that. maybe they oev corrected. i told them to come clean. maybe a game or two and that s it. some people are wondering if the punishment fit the crime when you see other instances in the nfl. ray rice was suspended two games. adrian peterson that whipping son he was caught doing he was suspended for the rest of the season. beth rothilous burger was six games and hardy ten games for domestic violence. you compare that some people say to inflating or deflating a football it doesn t add up. this is the integrity of the
$100,000. there s no template to work from. the other thing that s important to remember sounds like you talked to a couple of quarterbacks, one quarterback out there, i can really i can tell you there are 31 other quarterbacks across the national football league watching this closely because if they come after tom brady, they re going to come after manning and rog ders and every other quarterback because we know i m not saying they all do it but quite frankly, they all do it when it comes to pretreating footballs, it s fairly common practice across the national football league. ultimately i ll end on this, there is no smoking gun within the wells report that directly implicates tom braidy there s circle evidence but bottom line there are no texts from tom brady to either one of the two equipment managers specifically saying underinflate the footballs outside the legal psi window. christopher price, we ll have to leave it there. thanks you you and coy wire. we ll talk with legal ex
because, as brian pointed out, a lot of people are pointing the finger at tom brady saying he cheated but not only is he accused of cheating but accused of not cooperating with the investigation, a lot of the evidence came from the text messages from interviews with the two patriots employees who are believed to be most culpable but tom brady refused to give over his e-mails. what do you make of this? i think a player has a responsibility to cooperate with the investigation, that s a rule nfl commissioner can suspend you, and punishment is dependent on your cooperation. a six-game suspension is crazy in this case. too much? way too much. tom brady is the ambassador of the nfl and to say that he tells these equipment managers yeah i like the balls inflated lower, you have to remember there s a range the ball can go above and below. he didn t say below the limits the fact that he likes that tom brady wasn t in the locker room with a needle before the game
former player. i m trying to figure it out for the life of me. in baseball there s a ball the umpire holds the balls and make sure they re the same. in basketball the referees hold the ball. in hockey the officials hold the puck. why is it in football that one team gets their own balls and the other team gets their own and they re supposed to be official. well you know each quarterback likes the ball a different way. they get to practice with those every pitcher likes the ball a certain way too. i agree but the balls are brand new and have a wax and have to work the balls and do all kinds of things to them. i don t agree with tom brady not knowing the ball was deflated. he touches those and feeling those all week. he has to know that the ball is deflated. there s extra air, yes. he needs to not only know but be complicit in it does he not. yeah there s text messages about the psi levels and going around a locker room the equipment managers are very valued to these quarterba
they have a wax over them they have to work the balls. i don t agree with tom brady not knowing that the ball was deflated. that quarterback touches those balls. he s feeling those all week. he has to know that the ball is deflated. he has to be complicit in it does he not, peter? there are text messages exchanged about the psi levels in the ball with the equipment managers. going around an nfl locker room the equipment managers are very valued to these quarterbacks. it s almost like their best friends in there. they are the ones handling those footballs. in the mid-2000s, peyton manning and tom brady said this is something we wanted. why wouldn t the nfl say, sorry, like every other major sport, you can t bring your point? that s just it. fair enough. i don t disagree they shouldn t. i m in the camp that says you can inflate the ball as much as you want or don t want. but don t complain about it in the aftermath. i agree. i think the big deal is the