“I don’t care," Wagner said. “They can be flat. They can be pumped up. Someone has to hand them off and someone has to catch them. I’m the guy who has to tackle them, so put as much air as you want in them.”
Wagner also doesn’t worry about the integrity of the situation.
“I don’t know what’s unfair," Wagner said. “It’s playing ball. At the end of the day, what can we do now? It’s all in the past.
“It’s not like we’re going to go and say, ‘Replay the game.’ It’s not like we’re going to go and say, ‘Disqualify them or something.’ They’re here and we’re going to play them and we’re going to take advantage of all of our advantages.”
Has the controversy changed the way he views the Patriots?
“It hasn’t changed," Wagner said. “They are what they are. We focus on us and they do what they do. They’re winners. They’ve done this for a long time. I’ve watched them -- growing up -- winning. I have respect for them.”
