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THAT'S what I want to know.
If both Jastremski and McNally gave that definition to Wells, why did Wells completely ignore that in his report.
He could have written, "they claimed that it meant this, but it seems far-fetched".
Instead he redacted it from the report altogether.
Because it weakens his entire point. He also conveniently redacted the entire subplot about how some of those text messages ("under a lot of stress") were wrongfully attributed to Brady and not that fraud investigator. Almost all of his - already - circumstantial evidence gets weaker and weaker if he includes all of what he has been told. I actually wonder if there is some contract he signed with the NFL when he decided to do the report that legally binds him to compile the whole thing in good faith. Because looking at how much information he left out, I'd argue that you could nail him on leaving out pertinent information. And, looking at it all the only way out of the entire cluster**** for the league is to actually sue Wells for delivering them a completely flawed report. Of course none of it will happen and if Kraft follows through they will burn.
I also like the fact that the counter-report leads me to believe that this fight isn't going to end at a mere drop of the suspension to Brady. I hope that's a fact.
At this point I think you can assume that the two things are almost independent of each other. Of course both groups are cooperating internally but there is TeamBrady fighting the 4 game suspension via appeal and TeamKraft hopefully fighting the loss of draft picks via whatever means they have.
I think the biggest mistake the explanations for the texts made is trying to move it outside the context of football prep. It would have been easier to argue that deflating and inflating footballs is part of their job. The focus should be on the lack of evidence that there was intent to deflate below the 12.5 limit. There is no evidence to support any kind of scheme to operate outside of the limit.
As others have already stated, the truth is the truth. You don't change things around it to make it more convenient or a better PR point.