Tom Brady Explains Broken Cell Phone On Facebook, Calls Deflategate “Inconsequential”

Tom Brady has bro­ken his silence fol­low­ing the NFL’s deci­sion Tuesday to uphold his 4‑game sus­pen­sion. In a strong­ly-word­ed Facebook post, the Patriots’ QB explained his deci­sion to destroy his phone, which seems to be at the crux of the NFL’s argument.

I replaced my bro­ken Samsung phone with a new iPhone 6 AFTER my attor­neys made it clear to the NFL that my actu­al phone device would not be sub­ject­ed to inves­ti­ga­tion under ANY cir­cum­stances. As a mem­ber of a union, I was under no oblig­a­tion to set a new prece­dent going for­ward, nor was I made aware at any time dur­ing Mr. Wells inves­ti­ga­tion, that fail­ing to sub­ject my cell phone to inves­ti­ga­tion would result in ANY discipline.

The NFL seemed to omit that part from their expla­na­tion yes­ter­day. And Brady fol­lowed it up with this hay­mak­er to the NFL, though one should note the word “before”:

Most impor­tant­ly, I have nev­er writ­ten, texted, emailed to any­body at any­time, any­thing relat­ed to foot­ball air pres­sure before this issue was raised at the AFC Championship game in January. To sug­gest that I destroyed a phone to avoid giv­ing the NFL infor­ma­tion it request­ed is com­plete­ly wrong.

But this para­graph is why I’ll hold firm in my belief: Tom Brady will win in court.

To try and rec­on­cile the record and ful­ly coöper­ate with the inves­ti­ga­tion after I was dis­ci­plined in May, we turned over detailed pages of cell phone records and all of the emails that Mr. Wells request­ed. We even con­tact­ed the phone com­pa­ny to see if there was any pos­si­ble way we could retrieve any/​all of the actu­al text mes­sages from my old phone. In short, we exhaust­ed every pos­si­bil­i­ty to give the NFL every­thing we could and offered to go thru the iden­ti­ty for every text and phone call dur­ing the rel­e­vant time. Regardless, the NFL knows that Mr. Wells already had ALL rel­e­vant com­mu­ni­ca­tions with Patriots per­son­nel that either Mr. Wells saw or that I was ques­tioned about in my appeal hear­ing. There is no “smok­ing gun” and this con­tro­ver­sy is man­u­fac­tured to dis­tract from the fact they have zero evi­dence of wrong­do­ing. sto­ry orig­i­nat­ed here : 

Tom Brady Explains Broken Cell Phone on Facebook, Calls Deflategate “Inconsequential”