Tom Brady's Agent Responds to Deflategate Report

By DANIEL LIBON

Tom Brady’s agent Don Yee is none too pleased with the findings of the Wells Report released Wednesday afternoon.

In a statement, the quarterback’s agent called the report a significant and terrible disappointment, accusing its authors of reaching a conclusion before determining facts and the Colts of conducting a sting operation.

“What does it say about the league office’s protocols and ethics when it allows one team to tip it off to an issue prior to a championship game, and no league officials or game officials notified the Patriots of the same issue prior to the game? This suggests it may be more probable than not that the league cooperated with the Colts in perpetrating a sting operation,” Yee said.

After the AFC Championship game, the Colts accused the Patriots of using football deflated under the legal size. While Brady denied knowingly using deflated football, texts messages between a game day worker and an assistant equipment manager suggest there was an effort to provide deflated footballs and Brady was likely aware.

“This was not an independent investigation and the contents of the report bear that out – all one has to do is read closely and critically, as opposed to simply reading headlines. The investigators’ assumptions and inferences are easily debunked or subject to multiple interpretations. Much of the report’s vulnerabilities are buried in the footnotes, which is a common legal writing tactic,” Yee said.

Yee added that he was present for Brady’s interviews and has verbatim notes of the interview. Investigators had little knowledge of professional football according to the agent and he called for all information gathered in the investigation to be publicly released.

“Mr. Wells promised back in January to share the results of this investigation publicly, so why not follow through and make public all of the information gathered and let the public draw its own conclusions?” he said. “This report contains significant and tragic flaws, and it is common knowledge in the legal industry that reports like this generally are written for the benefit of the purchaser.”