the locker room attendants they participated in a deliberate effort to release air from patriots game balls after the balls were tested by the game officials. we believe it is unlikely that an equipment assistant and a locker room attendant would deflate game balls without brady s knowledge and approval. so should brady and/or patriots be pun,ed for this? joining us live brian claypool defense attorney, and tim janzen a sports attorney. brianen brian, the language in the report is not definitive, uses phrases like more than often, more often than not, most likely more probably. critics of the report are questioning the credibility here. you re a lawyer how strong or conclusive is this report? hey, ana, by the way, thanks for having me back. i want to amend that report to say that it should read that it is conclusive not more probable than not. these text messages between
the inflateness of the game balls. he texted this. tom sucks this. i m going to make that next ball a blanking balloon. talked to him last night. and talked to him last night. you must have a lot of stress getting that done. we believe it is unlikely that an equipment assistant and locker room attendant would deflate game balls without brady s knowledge and approval. brady declined to make available document or information including text messages or e-mails that we requested, even though they were limited to the subject matter of our investigation. and when deflate gate first broke, many tried to blame weather or other environmental
and an equipment attendant participated in an effort to release air from patriot game balls after the balls were examined by the referee. no other players, coaches or officials have been implicated. there is no smoking gun but evidence of videotape of mcnally removing game balls from the officials locker room and text messages in which they talked about brady s unhappiness with the inflation levels of patriot game balls. after a game earlier in the season the report indicates that mcnally texted this. tom sucks. i m going to make that next ball a blanking balloon. and he responded, talk to him last night. he actually brought you up. and said you must have a lot of stress trying to get them done. couldn t the two men have done all of this with tom brady not knowing. the report states, we believe it is unlikely that an equipment assistant and locker room attendant would deflate game balls without brady s knowledge
after a report earlier in the season, mcnally texted this. tom sucks. i m going to make that next ball a blanking balloon. it was responded, talked to you last night and said you must have a lot of stress. we believe that it is unlikely that an assistant and a locker room attendant would deflate game balls without brady s knowledge and approval. brady refused to make available any documents and text messages that we requested, even though the requests were the subject matter of our investigation. when the deflategate first broke, they tried to blame weather or other environmental factors for the deflation. but we visited the wilson factories in ohio and employees