When news came down yesterday that Tom Brady was “more probable than not” guilty of knowingly playing with deflated footballs, the Golden Boy’s reputation took a hit.
Brady’s name is currently being dragged through the mud as football fans around the Nation react to the news; but we know of at least one man (outside of Brady’s immediate family) that has decided to call out The Wells Report for being unfair.
To no surprise, that man is on Tom Brady’s payroll: his agent, Don Yee.
Brady’s agent Don Yee just came out swingin’ … saying the entire investigation was not only flawed, but carried out by people who have a “limited understanding of professional football.”
In a statement, Yee says … “The Wells report, with all due respect, is a significant and terrible disappointment. It’s omission of key facts and lines of inquiry suggest the investigators reached a conclusion first, and then determined so-called facts later.”
Yee even suggests that the NFL cooperated with the Indianapolis Colts to run a “sting operation” with the end goal of embarrassing Tom and the Patriots.
Yee also suggests that Ted Wells was not truly running an “independent investigation” — because his firm makes a lot of money off the NFL … and is heavily influenced by the league.
There’s more … Yee says Tom was NOT difficult with investigators and “made himself available for nearly an entire day and patiently answered every question.”
Yee continues, “The Wells report omitted nearly all of Tom’s testimony, most of which was critical because it would have provided this report with the context that it lacks.”
For the record, Yee never flatly denies Brady’s involvement or general awareness of Deflategate … but says there’s definitely more to the story.
The Report’s lack of physical evidence is its only glaring flaw.
Aside from that, the text messages exchanged between the equipment men about Brady, and the fact that Brady claims to have never known McNally (a man whom he’s signed countless memorabilia for) is the most damning proof against the Patriots. Why else would a grown man refer to himself as “the deflator” months before the whole deflategate controversy? And why would Brady deny knowing a man if their relationship had been on the up and up?
In total, there are still a lot of questions to be answered. But regardless of the effect it might have had in their games, rule circumvention was definitely going down in Foxboro.
Deflated balls may not have ultimately led to Tom Brady’s success; but it may just lead to his downfall.
H/T TMZ