ESPN reaction to Brady
Mark Brunell: "I did not believe what Tom had to say. Those balls were deflated. Somebody had to do it. I don't believe there's an equipment manager in the NFL that would, on his own initiative, deflate a ball without the starting QB's approval ... That football is our livelihood. If you don't feel good about throwing that ball? Your success on the football field can suffer from that."
Jerome Bettis: "I'm so disappointed because I thought this was a perfect opportunity for Tom Brady to go and say 'You know what? I made a mistake. I blew it. It's on me. I'll take the blame here, and this will go away.' He didn't do that ... I'm disappointed in you, Tom Brady."
Brian Dawkins: "This is unbelievable. For you not to know what you touch every play? ... The equipment manager is being thrown under the bus now. Now he's the guy. Now he's the one responsible. He took it upon himself to doctor up the balls when nobody else knew about it? That hard [to believe]."
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"....From that day forward, the younger Simms became something of an expert in analyzing footballs. After starting two seasons at the University of Texas, Simms played six years in the NFL, mostly as a backup. But through his stints with Tampa Bay (2004-06), Tennessee (2008 and ’10) and Denver (2009), his pregame ritual never changed.
“Before every game I ever played in the NFL, I went over to the opposing team to check out their game balls and see how the other quarterbacks liked their footballs,” Simms said. “I wanted to know how Peyton Manning liked his ball or how Brett Favre liked his. And I never, not once, felt a ball that wasn’t inflated to regulation standards. I’d thrown footballs almost every day of my life and I didn’t need a pressure gun to know what a regulation ball felt like. And doctoring balls just never happened. That’s what makes what went down last Sunday so shocking.”...."
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Ranks right up there with Giants/Pats 2x.
Sell me on either team.
