Tom Brady, speaking Thursday at a press conference regarding the “deflategate” investigation, denied any wrongdoing or even that he could tell whether the balls were deflated in the win over Indianapolis Sunday. Brady said he believes in “fair play” and doesn’t think about the footballs once the game starts.
“I don’t know what happened,” Brady said just a few hours after Belichick offered a similar response.
“I get the snap, I drop back, I throw the ball,” Brady said. “I don’t sit there and try to squeeze it and determine that.”
Brady, who held a players-only meeting, according to a report on NBC News, said he likes his balls a “certain way”, in that meeting, though there was no mention what that weight was.
Additionally, three years ago Brady told WEEI that likes deflated balls.
“[W]hen Gronk scores – it was like his eighth touchdown of the year – he spikes the ball and he deflates the ball,” Brady said in November 2011. “I love that, because I like the deflated ball. But I feel bad for that football, because he puts everything he can into those spikes.”
