Did Brady contradict himself?

Obviously he's lying. That said, I still hope they destroy the Seahawks.

Yeah, according to him, pregame he put do much emphasis on the balls being right. But during the game, he oblivious to it.

If a professional says that a certain equipment is perfect for him, he can tell the slightest differences when it is altered. This goes with golfers and clubs, baseball players and bats, basketball players and shoes, tennis players and rackets, etc...

What about bettis? He's a sore loser too?

And D'Qwell Jackson?

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He said the perfect ball for him is a ball with 12.5 psi. By saying that he acknowledges that he can feel the ball at 12.5 psi. But he later said he felt no difference with the deflated balls.

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He usually has the ball in his hands for less than 3 seconds max at a time during a game and is probably kinda distracted.

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His point, which I don't necessarily buy, is that he focuses on it and really tests it before hte game, but during the game there's not enough time to be sure whether the ball is 12.5 exactly

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This.

During the pre-game ball selection, his entire focus is on the ball selection. Once he finds the footballs he likes and wants to use, there's no reason for him to give them a second thought once they are brought into the game. Even if he thinks that something doesn't feel quite right, it doesn't matter since those are the balls that were selected (how many times do QBs ask for a new ball just because it doesn't feel right once they're on the field?)

He could be lying about the whole thing, but I don't find it far-fetched that he (or any QB for that matter) doesn't give the ball a ton of thought after he gets into the game, assuming there isn't a drastic change to it. Sometimes the PSI does decrease, so even if he could tell a difference, if he's truly innocent, there's no reason to assume that he would automatically know it had an illegal amount of inflation.

Who knows? Maybe it was a disgruntled employee that got paid off by the Colts or some anti-Pats fan (I don't believe that was the case, for the record).

Or it could have come directly from anyone with authority in the Patriots organization, including the QB. The problem is that it's all speculation at this point. It could have been an idiot equipment manager with a faulty gauge or it could have been ordered by Brady.

It looks really bad, but without evidence that it was done on purpose to provide a competitive advantage, how do you justify a harsh penalty like suspensions or draft picks?

Why do we need to create far fetched possibilities instead of looking at what is most likely?

Disgruntled employee? Why not go with... Aliens?