Old quote from Brady telling friends "he believes he did nothing wrong"

sb1 said:

This quote is getting me thinking about this whole thing.

Maybe I'm reading too much into a third hand quote but to me saying that you - quote - "believe you did nothing wrong" is not quite the same thing as saying "what are they talking about I didn't do anything". SOMETHING gave him enough pause to qualify the denial that way. I just can't figure out what it is.

To me the obvious thing that comes to mind would be an order to the dorito dinks to make sure the illegal overinflation by the refs like in the Jets game never happened again. But if that was the case then Wells would have been told about it.

Hopefully we don't find out one day that this was a careless repeat of Spygate where Belichick also "believed he did nothing wrong" with sideline taping because of a literal interpretation of the rulebook that didn't end well....Also not being done with a nefarious attempt to cheat the game but something that would get them into trouble regardless. But then again what rule in the rulebook could they point to to justify deflation of footballs like there was for sideline taping? There is none.

This whole thing is just weird. I hope Brady sits down on national TV one day and explains to the world what exactly the deal was.

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sb1 said:

This quote is getting me thinking about this whole thing.

Maybe I'm reading too much into a third hand quote but to me saying that you - quote - "believe you did nothing wrong" is not quite the same thing as saying "what are they talking about I didn't do anything". SOMETHING gave him enough pause to qualify the denial that way. I just can't figure out what it is.

To me the obvious thing that comes to mind would be an order to the dorito dinks to make sure the illegal overinflation by the refs like in the Jets game never happened again. But if that was the case then Wells would have been told about it.

Hopefully we don't find out one day that this was a careless repeat of Spygate where Belichick also "believed he did nothing wrong" with sideline taping because of a literal interpretation of the rulebook that didn't end well....Also not being done with a nefarious attempt to cheat the game but something that would get them into trouble regardless. But then again what rule in the rulebook could they point to to justify deflation of footballs like there was for sideline taping? There is none.

This whole thing is just weird. I hope Brady sits down on national TV one day and explains to the world what exactly the deal was.

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Mainepatsfan54 said:

Well this thread will be on ESPNs front page in 3..2..

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BelichickFan said:

Bottom line is we all saw the texts and there was nothing . . . nothing . . . to suggest that anything against the rules was done; nor that Brady demanded it if it were.

In fact, although we don't know for sure what happened, the IGL pretty much dictates that the balls were legal because if we deflated them they would be far lower, per the IGL.

My guess as to why it says he "believes" (remembering also, he's a QB not an English scholar) is I could see him thinking perhaps the equipment guys were made to feel like they had to do something to keep him happy after the 16 PSI game against the Jets. But, again, the IGL states that didn't happen based on all the tests that have been done.

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sb1 said:

Maybe I'm reading too much into a third hand quote but to me saying that you - quote - "believe you did nothing wrong" is not quite the same thing as saying "what are they talking about I didn't do anything". SOMETHING gave him enough pause to qualify the denial that way. I just can't figure out what it is.

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chasa said:

the only quote you need to look at is the text he sent to jag "Don't worry buddy, you didn't do anything wrong"

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fnordcircle said:

Brady might be one of those rare people who doesn't have a lawyer vet every word he says before he speaks to a friend.

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Froob said:

That's what guilty people do....

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fnordcircle said:

Hmm, you seem to know a lot about how the guilty behave.

What are you hiding, Mr. Froob? If that is your real name...

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Froob said:

Says captain ignore list. Only guilty people use ignore list....

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fnordcircle said:

Ted Wells had exponent review my ignore list and they said that I'm right to ignore you and also smoking doesn't cause cancer. I'm just protecting the integrity of patfans.com.

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Froob said:

Smoking is the smoking gun! I would know, I am Ian's official independent investigator. Any new relevant information will be ignored if you wish to provide it...

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