If anyone seriously thinks, that after Deflategate, and after those ESPN and SI articles came out this week, with a national audience and tensions already running at an all-time high around the Patriots and "cheating", that the Patriots would go and deliberately pull a stunt like this (even if they could), they have to have their frigging head examined.
I mean, they'd have to know that if they really did this, and got found out, that the punishment would be so severe that the franchise would likely never recover.
It's complete lunacy.