As in most corruption cases, the cover-up and perjury are what catches people out. In this instance, it was the implausible denials of the existence of the "deflator" and Tommy's destruction of his cell phone. Brady is a cheat and a liar.
Don't forget the video showing McNally sneaking off into the bathroom with the footballs which was against protocol.
One of my favorite stories was a young attorney went to a legendary attorney known for getting his guilty clients off from whatever crime they committed. The young attorney asked the legendary attorney what his secret was.
The legendary attorney replied '
The state is going to have expert witnesses, right? If you get a ballistics expert, ask them questions, but never ask him a question on ballistics. If you have a blood expert, ask then anything you want as long as it's not about blood.'
The point being that if you ask a ballistics expert on fingerprint evidence, they may give an incorrect answer because they are not a fingerprint expert. And if they do give an incorrect answer, the lawyer could discredit the ballistics expert because he was wrong on a question on fingerprints. It doesn't matter if the ballistics expert is 100% correct on ballistics analysis...he's now been discredited.
You can see a lot of that with the Patriots and their defense of Brady. It's a lot of deflection towards stuff that has nothing to do with Deflategate or something completely insignificant with Deflategate in hopes of being able to establish a way to discredit the evidence against Brady.
One of the big arguments in defense of Brady is that '
he has proven he doesn't need to cheat.' That's a standard argument for cheaters that get caught. Did Mark McGwire need to cheat? He was hitting ungodly amounts of home runs before steroids. Did Jayson Blair need to plagiarize? How about Mitch Albom?
Lastly, one other aspect that doesn't get factored in (besides the fact you can't use the mean PSI to determine cheating) is that none of these experts actually know what the PSI of the footballs were BEFORE McNally got them. We just know that they had to be within a 12.5 to 13.5 PSI. A football that may have measured at 11.5 PSI may have been at 13.5 PSI when McNally received it. That would indicate that he deflated that football because it's below the projected PSI drop. But, the Brady defenders will gleefully accept that the balls had to be at 12.5 PSI to start without question.
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