Holy crap, P
ash acknowledged and pointedly said he didn't care that the NFL knowingly left the incorrect info out in public for 4 months.
This is REALLY bad for the NFL. Pash needs to answer:
".......The
Patriots later took up this inaccuracy and the media leaks with the NFL’s head lawyer Jeff Pash, who was part of the Wells Investigation and edited the Wells Report, Pash was dismissive.
“With respect to the internal matters that you have identified in your email,” wrote Pash on Feb. 6, “I think the Commissioner has been unequivocal in saying that the league office has made no judgments and reached no conclusions about why the footballs were under-inflated and who [if anyone] was responsible for that. I have repeated that as well. But I will state again -- There are no prejudgments. There are no presumptions of wrongdoing. We are taking seriously the explanations offered by Coach Belichick and others and are committed to giving them thorough and objective consideration. I am quite certain that I speak for the Commissioner in this respect I know the Commissioner is as displeased by the media activity as you and others are.”
Yet nothing was done by the league to tamp down the hysteria caused by the “11 of 12” report from ESPN. I asked Pash about that in San Francisco on the day the Patriots accepted reluctantly their punishment from the NFL.
After telling me he was amused that I described him as Goodell’s “lead nut-twister in an earlier column,” Pash agreed that Mortensen’s 11 of 12 report was “a flashpoint” but, Pash added, “All the information did get out, including the correct numbers.”
“Four months later,” I countered.
“There were a lot of things that were out there
that weren’t accurate,” said Pash....."
