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Buckley: This team not 2007’s

However Tom Brady’s upcoming summit with Roger Goodell turns out, Deflategate isn’t going to disappear as a football topic.

Consider how it’ll be each and every Wednesday during the season, when Patriots coach Bill Belichick does those league-mandated conference calls with the media that covers the team’s next opponent. Reporters will naturally pose questions about penalties, appeals and deflated footballs, all under the chicken-bleep guise of, “Bill, other people are calling you guys cheaters, and I was just wondering if …,” and Belichick will naturally deflect those questions with practiced precision.

And it won’t make a difference.