Leave it to a Hall of Fame quarterback to put Tom Brady’s role in Deflategate into proper perspective.
Former Buffalo Bills quarterback Jim Kelly joined “We Need to Talk” on CBS Sports and said there was “no doubt” Brady cheated.
“Oh, there’s no doubt,” Kelly said. “There’s no way that an equipment manager in the National Football League is going to do something to the football without the greatest quarterback ever to play knowing … ”
Just like all the box scores could tell us, Brady has been successful regardless of what kind of football he uses. In Kelly’s words, the Patriots Super Bowl MVP can “throw a football if it was over-inflated or deflated.” That makes him wonder why his “good friend” would cheat.
“You do something like that, you’re going to get caught,” Kelly said. “And Tom didn’t need to do it … but why?”
The answer is because he feels more comfortable throwing a deflated ball, just like many other QBs. Brady likes an under-inflated ball, while Aaron Rodgers prefers an overinflated ball. It’s just preference. But having an equipment guy take air out of the balls after the referees checked them is blatantly breaking the rules, and there’s no need for it. But when you’re talking about an organization that videotapes other teams’ signals and allegedly cuts out headsets, this sort of thing should not come as a surprise.
