Look at the chronology. It's now 17 March, 2 months after the Wells investigation was commissioned, and Ted Wells is getting anxious because he hasn't found a smoking gun...nor any hard evidence of tampering. He's getting desperate because the media is starting to wonder when the outcome will be in hand. So he thinks maybe he can browbeat a confession out of McNally, using threatening and strong-arm tactics, by pulling on the only thread of evidence he still has (the text messages). The Patriots, however, are wise to him. They know full well there's nothing to find...even reminding Wells that he wouldn't have such opportunity for multiple interviews (i.e. depositions) if this had been a litigated case. So Wells get's upset, vowing to "get" the Patriots, and makes a big deal about their "uncooperativeness" in the Wells Report... because that's the only thing he could hang his hat on.
I don't really think that's the case, and this is just something I started thinking about yesterday after reading the context report and a few insightful posts around here.
You have to understand that not only is noncooperation a crime, in itself, it's even worse than the actual infraction.
So, what do you do if you're trying to stitch up the pats......?
Well, I won't make accusations, but if it was me I'd probably continue to make a laundry list of demands until I found something they drew the line at to produce a resisting arrest charge.
He had every text in his possession for weeks, as the pats obligingly turned over the phones.
His million dollar team had all this time to prep for an all day interview, because McNally apparently refused to leave, much to their disappointment.
So, even though they agreed to a single interview beforehand they conveniently just stumble across this deflator text because they only checked in season texts, right?
Well, what was McNally's answer for the 'deflate, etc jacket' text he sent in NOV?
Oh, we were going to ask about that at the second interview we weren't getting, they say.
Uncooperative!!
Pats feel kind of bad about ted getting screwed so they offer an alternative.....but.,..nobody at the wells office will answer their phone......
The only thing pissing wells off is how hard he had to work to get past pats cooperation