Appeared to suggest that one may want to look in the direction of his star quarterback. I think we all know that quarterbacks, kickers, specialists have certain preferences on footballs. They know a lot more about it than i do. Theyre more sensitive than i am. Toms personal preference on his footballs are something he can talk about in much better detail. Joining me now is nfl fullback and football analyst john richey. Thanks for joining me. Are they dueling press conferences . Do we have any sense of if there was coordination between belichicks press conference. Toms was moved from tomorrow up to today. I have no doubt there was coordination there. Everything within the building, wears a lot of hats there. And they talked about how theyre going to play this off. And the quarterback is the one in charge of tasking the equipment guys with making sure the balls are right. Each team gets the set of balls. They condition them during the week. They inflate or deflate them as they see fit. T