There was a touching tribute between father and son and two hilarious impressions of Bill Belichick and Tom Brady, but the biggest takeaway from an "E:60" feature on Julian Edelman, which ran a day after the NFL appealed its deflate-gate defeat, was the receiver's emphatic defense of his New England Patriots.
"We play by the rules, just like everybody else," Edelman told Jeremy Schaap. "Coach is always a stickler about everything, and it's just that we're always winning that people always try to bring something out."
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The something Edelman refers to, in this instance, is the accusation that the Patriots — specifically Brady — orchestrated a scheme to deflate footballs below the minimum allowed PSI level before the AFC Championship Game against the Indianapolis Colts.