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