You mean like HOFer Troy Aikman who says the punishment should be worse than bountygate?
One guy, and frankly, I think the ones that are treating this like its the biggest scandal of the century, just really despise the Patriots and want it to be that bad.
Troy Aikman didn't really give much of an opinion other than that Tom Brady definitely knew about it. How? Why? I think he probably did, but there have been contradictory opinions on this that he probably wouldn't be able to tell the difference if the balls were deflated.
I trust Dan Marino and Joe Thiesmann more personally. Troy has always been a total D-bag, and is lucky to even be in the hall of fame.
Dan Marino, one of the best we've ever seen, said its 100% plausible that Tom Brady wouldn't know at all. And actually believes he had nothing to do with it. Why? Because it's that stupid of a thing, and honestly like the last thing in the world a QB is seriously thinking about. Sure, Brady scuffs his footballs up, like every other QB. But its already been said, its not easy to deflate a football.
Joe Thiesmann actually deflated a football, experimented on this. Threw them both, and said he couldn't tell a difference at all.
I don't even care if he did, or didn't, it's so dumb, and the NFL and everyone blowing up over this should be embarrassed.
Tom Brady played BETTER with the proper sized football. So everyone saying these games are tainted over air-pressure, please just stop.
I think its bad if Belichick deliberately did this. If Brady did this on his own, no, not at all. QB's have their preferences, they all doctor the ball. A lot of them bend the rules. Aaron Rodgers has publicly said, he tries to over inflate the footballs, and tries to get away with it from the refs.
But since its the Patriots, we're treating it like the biggest scandal of the century. Journalism has become a joke in this country.