After watching impossibly arrogant, stubborn fools like Mortenson, Kravitz, and Goodell continue to fight the good fight despite piles and piles of evidence of Brady's innocence stacking up over their heads, I cannot see any good reason to criticize King for saving face. I do believe MANY overreacted truly believing their views were moderate or even mild as so many pundits were taking extreme views in the issue.
Most of these jack@sses have returned back underground to their dirty sewers, and virtually all of them have just shut up about deflated footballs, probably out of fear that they will anger Goodell. I applaud Peter King for being one of the few who realizes it isn't fair to "let the story die" now that the tables have turned. I mean, think about how many wanted to lynch Brady and had about one-one millionth of the conviction and enthusiasm to cover the story when it later appeared he was innocent. Those guys would rather cover the wNBA than write an article that blows up all the dumb things they'd been spewing for the last nine months.