Tom Brady Explains Broken Cell Phone on Facebook, Calls Deflategate "Inconsequential"
By Jason McIntyre
Tom Brady has broken his silence following the NFL’s decision Tuesday to uphold his 4-game suspension. In a strongly-worded Facebook post, the Patriots’ QB explained his decision to destroy his phone, which seems to be at the crux of the NFL’s argument.
I replaced my broken Samsung phone with a new iPhone 6 AFTER my attorneys made it clear to the NFL that my actual phone device would not be subjected to investigation under ANY circumstances. As a member of a union, I was under no obligation to set a new precedent going forward, nor was I made aware at any time during Mr. Wells investigation, that failing to subject my cell phone to investigation would result in ANY discipline.
The NFL seemed to omit that part from their explanation yesterday. And Brady followed it up with this haymaker to the NFL, though one should note the word “before”:
Most importantly, I have never written, texted, emailed to anybody at anytime, anything related to football air pressure before this issue was raised at the AFC Championship game in January. To suggest that I destroyed a phone to avoid giving the NFL information it requested is completely wrong.
But this paragraph is why I’ll hold firm in my belief: Tom Brady will win in court.
To try and reconcile the record and fully cooperate with the investigation after I was disciplined in May, we turned over detailed pages of cell phone records and all of the emails that Mr. Wells requested. We even contacted the phone company to see if there was any possible way we could retrieve any/all of the actual text messages from my old phone. In short, we exhausted every possibility to give the NFL everything we could and offered to go thru the identity for every text and phone call during the relevant time. Regardless, the NFL knows that Mr. Wells already had ALL relevant communications with Patriots personnel that either Mr. Wells saw or that I was questioned about in my appeal hearing. There is no “smoking gun” and this controversy is manufactured to distract from the fact they have zero evidence of wrongdoing.