Quote:1.) They weren't caught.  If they had video of McNally deflating footballs then we wouldn't be having this conversation.  They were found to have more probably than not based on refutable circumstantial evidence. 

 

2.) With his phone in their possession, the Wells investigators interviewed McNally for a full day with 4 lawyers.  They had his phone, they had the info from the game they had jastremski's phone.  What the #%*@ do you need to talk to him again for?  If im rober Kraft and I have a Nobel laurite telling me "Hey Bob, according to the LOG GAUGE the recorded halftime PSI is exactly what you would expect given the difference in temperature" I would be frustrated to. 

 

This is how these investigations go, I'll say it again.  You bring in a bunch of high priced lawyers and keep asking people questions until they can't remember what tie they were wearing on November 19th 2013 at 6 am and then you convict not on the basis of the original charge but obstruction or perjury. 

 

They haven't proven the balls were tampered with and the chain of evidence in general is beyond juvenile given the scope grandeur and resources of the national football league. 

 

As for the suspension of the two ball boys and the behind the scenes negotiations, that's pretty simple.  What's the goal right now for the PATS?  to mitigate the penalties actually enforced.  Its actually irrelevant if that is because of negotiations, or in the case of suspending the attendants, trying to appease the league before the ruling was handed down. 

 

<b>I know the Patriots promised their full cooperation with this investigation. Did you find that to be the case? How difficult were the Patriots and the related parties to you during this investigation?</b>

 

<b>Wells:</b> The Patriots provided me, in my opinion, with substantial cooperation except in one critical and crucial area. I wanted to do a second interview of Jim McNally. Jim McNally was the second Patriots person I interviewed. I wanted, after I had interviewed others, including Tom Brady, to do a second interview of McNally to put certain questions to him and I had also discovered after the first interview important text messages where Jim McNally not only calls himself the deflator but says he has not gone to ESPN, dot dot dot, yet. Which is akin, as far I am concerned to saying I have not gone to the media yet to report what I’m doing. And I had not found that text during the first interview, at the time of the first interview. I wanted to confront him with that. I asked for a second interview. I said I would go to New Hampshire, I would interview him in the morning, afternoon, night, I didn’t care. I would make myself available whenever he was free and not only did they say I couldn’t interview him, they said they would not even tell him about my request for an interview. So on that particular point, which was critical to this investigation, they did not cooperate and the report sets that out.

 

Edit:  The chain of evidence is juvenile to you because it doesn't fit your narrow scope of evidence.  You don't want the Patriots to have cheated, so you will continue to say there's not enough evidence.

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