NFL fans are still trying to make sense of the #DeflateGate report that the NFL and attorney Ted Wells released yesterday. And apparently, so is Tom Brady's agent Don Yee. He just released a statement about Wells' findings and ripped the report for suggesting that Brady was involved in the #DeflateGate scandal.
"The Wells report, with all due respect, is a significant and terrible disappointment," Yee said in the statement. "Its omission of key facts and lines of inquiry suggest the investigators reached a conclusion first, and then determined so-called facts later."
Yee also said that Brady worked with Wells and his investigation team for more than a day and answered all of the questions that they had, but that a lot of his answers weren't ultimately included within the #DeflateGate report.
“The investigators’ assumptions and inferences are easily debunked or subject to multiple interpretations,” Yee said. “Much of the report’s vulnerabilities are buried in the footnotes, which is a common legal writing tactic. It is a sad day for the league as it has abdicated the resolution of football-specific issues to people who don’t understand the context or culture of the sport. I was physically present for my client’s interview. I have verbatim notes of the interview. Tom made himself available for nearly an entire day and patiently answered every question. It was clear to me the investigators had limited understanding of professional football. For reasons unknown, 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. Mr. Wells promised back in January to share the results of this investigation publicly, so why not follow through and make public all of the information gathered and let the public draw its own conclusions? This report contains significant and tragic flaws, and it is common knowledge in the legal industry that reports like this generally are written for the benefit of the purchaser.”
If the NFL plans on punishing Brady for his alleged role in #DeflateGate, they better be prepared for him to appeal it. Because if his agent's statement is any indication, it doesn't sound like he's going to go down without a fight.
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[via Pro Football Talk]
