Here is what Skip said (just about word for word):
"Molly, I wish my chair had a seat belt because I may need one. Stephan A. Smith, After what I read last night and what I heard and you can yawn all you want because I am going to back you into the deepest corner you have ever been in on this show.
I believe more than ever that Tom Brady is 100% innocent as charged and as convicted in the court of public opinion. I believe that what I read last night, thankfully it was all released to the public, that Tom Brady was in fact ambushed and railroaded and ultimately framed by the NFL and a commissioner who constantly mislead the public with exaggerated and irrelevant claims that prompted most people to leap to the conclusion, the premature conclusion, that Tom Brady is a liar and a cheater.
He swore in testimony on appeal that he was 100% innocent. That he knew absolutely nothing about over/under inflated footballs- any footballs that got tampered with whatsoever, about deflated footballs because he said "My equipment people said they knew nothing about it. And I took that as the truth coming from them."
So now we had Ted Wells on appeal admitting that he told Tom Brady that nothing he can do, if you don't give me your text, if you don't give me your emails, you cannot be punished for giving up those things. And we also have heard from Tom Brady that even before Wells interrogated him the NFLPA told Tom Brady under no circumstance would you be forced to give up your right to privacy and your cellphone. And, again, admitting the fact the NFL already has possession the texts from Jermensky that Tom Brady had sent to him. So they had plenty already.
But then Ted Wells says "In all my 40 years in this business I've never seen anyone with such an ill advised decision, that Tom Brady not giving me the texts and emails that I requested from him because I lost credibility in Tom Brady." You know why he said that? Because that is all they had was that Tom Brady failed to cooperate, as you say. That's the only reason to say that is because that's all they had on Tom Brady.
And then Brady said he knew nothing about PSI until that October 16, 2014 game against the Jets in which he found his footballs dramatically over inflated. So he said what are the rules? And so he got a rule sheet and started having his equipment people take it out to the referees and say here are the rules because the refs didn't know the rules. You can't inflate those footballs up to 16 PSI. So Brady said "hey, inflate them to 12.5 PSI because that's the legal limit". He does like them a little under inflated but he did not talk about that in his appeal interrogation. So in the end I think this commissioner is looking worse and worse."
Didn't even try to write down what Stephen A. Smith said.
