Tom Brady's agent slams Deflategate report, calls it a 'significant and terrible disappointment'

A day after Ted Wells’ Deflategate report was finally released, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady’s agent, Don Yee, has come out swinging against it. Welles found that Brady likely knew about the underinflated footballs used in the January AFC Championship game against the Colts.

“The Wells report, with all due respect, is a significant and terrible disappointment. It’s omission of key facts and lines of inquiry suggest the investigators reached a conclusion first, and then determined so-called facts later,” Yee said in his statement, posted by the Boston Herald.

Yee questions the NFL’s integrity, wondering why the Patriots were not notified that the Colts had already warned the league about possible underinflated balls before the AFC Championship game. “This suggests it may be more probable than not that the league cooperated with the Colts in perpetrating a sting operation,” Yee wrote. “The Wells report buries this issue in a footnote on page 46 without any further elaboration.”

“It is a sad day for the league as it has abdicated the resolution of football-specific issues to people who don’t understand the context or culture of the sport,” Yee continued. He also noted that the Wells report didn’t include Brady’s testimony.

“Mr. Wells promised back in January to share the results of this investigation publicly, so why not follow through and make public all of the information gathered and let the public draw its own conclusions?” yee concluded. “This report contains significant and tragic flaws, and it is common knowledge in the legal industry that reports like this generally are written for the benefit of the purchaser.”

Wells’ report was finally released on Wednesday, almost four months after the AFC Championship game and three months after the Patriots won Super Bowl XLIX. The investigator, appointed by the NFL, wrote that it was “more probable than not” that there were violations of the league’s policies on football inflation. Personnel members Jim McNally and John Jastremski “participated in a deliberate plan to circumvent the rules by releasing air from Patriots game balls after the examination of the footballs by NFL game officials at the AFC Championship Game,” according the the report.

Wells also found that Brady was “at least generally aware” of what McNally and Jastremski were doing.

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