What you state is true, but when you state "all you can do is try.....", I'm looking for the specifics that we all can do. For almost 8 years, as a fan base, all we have done is whine about the error in perception and the injustice and complain about it.
I no longer care about who's fault it is that we are in this position. What we need to do now is to help correct it and get the full truth out. Now I fully understand that we aren't guiltless in this. Even if you truly ARE smarter than the rest of your playmates, there are real consequences if you continually go out of your way to point it out to them. We were guilty of arrogance and hubris, NOT cheating. That's the story I want out there.
I think we can be even more proactive with this deflategate nonsense, because there is a good chance that there really were people out to get us, and its starting to come to light, but the NFL desperately wants this all to go away. They are perfectly willing to let the Pats bear the unfair burden of their own malfeasance and ineptitude.
That's why I think they will let this drag on as long as they can, and then when they finally HAVE to present something they will vindicate the Pats, but leave the implication that while nothing can be proven, something COULD have been done. That way they can clear the Pats, because obviously they did nothing wrong, and yet still leave the haters something to whine about. This way they and their media allies don't have to take any accountability for their shoddy handling of this mess.
If this is the end result of all this......they WIN!