New England Patriots Rightfully Blast Wells Report For Its Lack Of Evidence

By Jerry Landry
Tom Brady Wells Report New England Patriots Counter Report
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The biggest non-crime of the century appears to have divided Americans as if it were “Bush vs. Gore: II.”

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First it was the Indianapolis Colts putting the New England Patriots on blast for softening up some footballs before the AFC Championship Game. Then the trolls did their thing, taking to social media with their jokes, cartoons and for some concerning reason, explosive outrage. Roger Goodell said something along the lines of “I’ll look into it,” and then hired “internal/external” NFL investigator Ted Wells, who in turn, looked into it.

On May 6, the Wells Report emerged and it contained crude text messages exchanged between two middle-aged ball boys — among the 243 pages which also suggested how Tom Brady “was generally aware” of the process of under-inflating footballs, allegedly going on right under the Patriots’ watch, deep within the bowels of professional football stadiums. The psi-genocide becomes so grim, it makes the report almost seem boring while also void of hard evidence.

Those previous four words are now the argument the Patriots are using for persuasion. According to CBS Boston, the Patriots have published a counter-report, assembled by team counsel, and their findings conclude that the findings of the Wells Report didn’t conclude anything:

“The conclusions of the Wells Report are, at best, incomplete, incorrect and lack context. The Report dismisses the scientific explanation for the natural loss of psi of the Patriots footballs by inexplicably rejecting the Referee’s recollection of what gauge he used in his pregame inspection. Texts acknowledged to be attempts at humor and exaggeration are nevertheless interpreted as a plot to improperly deflate footballs, even though none of them refer to any such plot. There is no evidence that Tom Brady preferred footballs that were lower than 12.5 psi and no evidence anyone even thought that he did. All the extensive evidence which contradicts how the texts are interpreted by the investigators is simply dismissed as ‘not plausible.’ Inconsistencies in logic and evidence are ignored.

These points, and others, are addressed in greater detail in the following Annotations to the Executive Summary of the Wells Report by Daniel L. Goldberg, a senior partner in the Boston office of Morgan Lewis and who represented the Patriots and was present during all of the interviews of Patriots personnel conducted at Gillette Stadium. Our intention is to provide additional context for balance and consideration.”

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I expect even more hot air to leak into the courtroom.

Jerry Landry is a writer for www.RantSports.com. Follow Jerry on Twitter at @Jerry2Landry, “Like” him on Facebook or add him on Google.

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