The Deflategate scandal isn’t going away anytime soon. Tom Brady and Bill Belechick have taken the brunt of nationwide criticism, and now it seems that the venerable quarterback has cracked a bit. During a weekly radio appearance on WEEI-FM’s Dennis & Callahan show, the 3-time champion spoke on candidly about investigation, “I personalized a lot of things and thought this was all about me and my feelings got hurt, and then I moved past it because it’s not serving me,” he said.
Brady was asked if he ever had the ball boy or equipment manager deflate footballs after they met league specifications.
“Absolutely not,” Brady said. “No, I didn’t. And I haven’t. And I never will. I think that’s obviously how I feel and the kind of person that I am.
“No one knows the facts. I pick 24 balls, that’s what I pick. Whatever happened after I did it, and whatever the situation was where they measured them, I have no idea any of those facts. … When you don’t know something, that’s all you can say is, ‘I don’t know.’ I know that’s not always the answer that people want to hear, but that’s the reality.”
With all of the noise coming from every direction towards the Patriots, Brady claims that it has made him focus even more on the task and hand, winning the Super Bowl.
“I think what’s serving me is to try to prepare for the game ahead, and I’ll deal with whatever happens later,” Brady said. “I’ll have my opportunity to try to figure out what happened and figure out a theory like everyone else is trying to do. But this isn’t the time for that, and honestly I’m not interested in trying to find out right now because we have the biggest game of our season ahead.”
via: ESPN Boston
