Ted Wells' Train Wreck Press conference :D

Mike Reiss ‏@MikeReiss 3m3 minutes ago
Ted Wells currently holding conference call. Says he is doing so because his independence has been questioned.

Wells: The Patriots were all over me from Day 1 about why the NFL did not warn them about a complaint and alleging that there was a sting.

shalise manza young ‏@shalisemyoung 9m9 minutes ago
on call with Ted Wells - he mad. mad at Yee & assertion that he was influenced by league during investigation and report

Poor guy. It sucks when someone's integrity is impugned.

Wells: "I did not find that there was any kind of bias [against the Patriots]"

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https://twitter.com/MarkDanielsPJ/status/598188757628657664

You mean other than your clearly biased report that even people who believe the Pats did it feel you were biased?

Wells said if he was on a jury he would've "checked the box that said, proven"

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https://twitter.com/MarkDanielsPJ/status/598187754523074560

If he is talking a criminal trial, he completely full of crap. There is plenty of reasonable doubt in his report and that report didn't even present the Pats' side of the case.

Hopefully there's some sharp reporters on this call...he's "mad"? Freaking spare me.

Ian Rapoport ‏@RapSheet 12s12 seconds ago
Ted Wells: “Patriots provided me substantial cooperation except in 1 critical & crucial area – I wanted to do a 2nd interview with McNally.”

Well this is going to get interesting, Kraft says he did FOUR interviews and declined a 5th in PERSON with an offer to do a phone interview, declined by Wells.

Wells said he would have driven to NH to do interview, initial 3 interviews were by NFL, only one by Wells.

SVN said:

shalise manza young ‏@shalisemyoung 9m9 minutes ago
on call with Ted Wells - he mad. mad at Yee & assertion that he was influenced by league during investigation and report

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He was either influenced, already had an existing bias, or he's just a terrible investigator. Pick one.

Not really any way to look at it. Every single opinion wells puts forth in the report is anti patriots.

Ref might have used 1 of two gauges "Well i choose the gauge that hurts the patriots"

Science says that the balls could be explained "well if this and this happened then this happened clearly it was cheating"

Rob0729 said:

https://twitter.com/MarkDanielsPJ/status/598188757628657664

You mean other than your clearly biased report that even people who believe the Pats did it feel you were biased?



https://twitter.com/MarkDanielsPJ/status/598187754523074560

If he is talking a criminal trial, he completely full of crap. There is plenty of reasonable doubt in his report and that report didn't even present the Pats' side of the case.

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Why would he do this right now unless he has some other crap to show?

Fixit said:

He was either influenced, already had an existing bias, or he's just a terrible investigator. Pick one.

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All of the above.

Do we care what he says? Listen, the report speaks for itself. There's enough in there to question his independence, I couldn't care less what his justifications are. The way he phrases certain things indicates clear bias. The way he footnotes pertinent information or outright buries it in appendices without reference in his conclusions or the body of the report.

I really don't care how he tries to spin it, the report says everything.

I hope he gets destroyed in a court and goes sing in the subways for a living

Well, it's either that he was influenced by the NFL or he is incompetent. Which is it?

strngplyr said:

Ian Rapoport ‏@RapSheet 12s12 seconds ago
Ted Wells: “Patriots provided me substantial cooperation except in 1 critical & crucial area – I wanted to do a 2nd interview with McNally.”

Well this is going to get interesting, Kraft says he did FOUR interviews and declined a 5th in PERSON with an offer to do a phone interview, declined by Wells.

Wells said he would have driven to NH to do interview, initial 3 interviews were by NFL, only one by Wells.

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I think the difference is that the first 3 interviews were done by NFL security, the fourth by Wells.

Bruce Allen ‏@bruceallen 1m1 minute ago
Bruce Allen retweeted Doug Kyed

But not by phone. That could recorded and a transcript made, right Ted?

Bruce Allen added,

Doug Kyed @DougKyedNESN
Wells says he wanted to do a second interview with Jim McNally. Said he would go to NH in the morning, afternoon, night.

Somebody is awfully defensive

Guess Wells want to be a part of the story.

Sucks to have your work torn down by people with potential little to no understanding of the process. Get 5m from the NFL, maybe lose 40m in future business (then again, maybe you'll be even more popular asa hired gun to spin anything).

Rob0729 said:

https://twitter.com/MarkDanielsPJ/status/598188757628657664

You mean other than your clearly biased report that even people who believe the Pats did it feel you were biased?



https://twitter.com/MarkDanielsPJ/status/598187754523074560

If he is talking a criminal trial, he completely full of crap. There is plenty of reasonable doubt in his report and that report didn't even present the Pats' side of the case.

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That second tweet is a pretty damning indication of bias in its own right. Thanks for giving the Patriots more ammo, Ted.

shalise manza young ‏@shalisemyoung 40s40 seconds ago
Wells: I want to be crystal clear, I told Mr Brady & his agent I did not want to take (TB's) phone. give me documents & I'll take your word