Patriots Answer to Wells Report, Says Conclusions are ‘Incomplete’
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Doug Pensinger/Getty Images(FOXBOROUGH, Mass.) — After attorney Ted Wells defended his report that led to the NFL’s punishment of the New England Patriots and quarterback Tom Brady, the team fired back, creating a website to challenge some of the findings discovered by Wells.
The Patriots’ rebuttal is nearly 20,000 words written by attorney Daniel L. Goldberg, who represents the team and was present at all interviews of team personnel conducted at Gillette Stadium.
In creating the website, Goldberg wrote, “Our intention is to provide additional context for balance and consideration.”
The website said conclusions in the Wells report were “incomplete, incorrect and lack context.”
“There is no evidence that Tom Brady preferred footballs that were lower than 12.5 [pounds per square inch] and no evidence anyone even thought that he did,” it said.
It also stated that the Wells report dismissed “scientific explanations for the natural loss of psi” in the footballs by rejecting referee Walt Anderson’s memory of which air gauge he used to measure them. The Patriots included a “scientific conclusion” by Nobel Prize winner Roderick MacKinnon that contested the report’s findings.
The NFL Players Association officially appealed Brady’s suspension Thursday afternoon. The appeal will be heard by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell.
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