re: SIAP: Deflategate is not about Brady and the receivers. It's about TO's (Link)

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Doesn't look good that Brady was the main proponent of wanting to use his own balls for each game.

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It only looks that way to someone that made up their mind before hearing any facts. Prior to the rule change, the home team supplied the game balls. So half of the games every QB was able to use football that was prepared to their liking. The other half of the games, they didn't try out the game balls until pre-game warmups. And those balls were picked out by your opponent.

Read this article. It is from 2013 and gives some good insight as to why a QB might want to use their own ball.