If you thought Deflategate was going away soon you were misinformed. The New England Patriots hit back against the Wells Report today by publishing their own response on a new website, www.wellsreportcontext.com.
The Patriots’ rebuttal includes pieces of the Wells Report’s executive summary with annotations from Daniel L. Goldberg, team counsel who was present during the interviews of Patriots personnel conducted at Gillette Stadium as part of Ted Wells’ investigation. The team describes its intention as “to provide additional context for balance and consideration”.
The annotations push back on some of the key assertions of the report, particularly the text banter between employees Jim McNally and Jon Jastermski ,which featured prominently in the Wells report and was basically cited as the reasoning for Wells’ conclusion that it was “more probably than not” that the Patriots’ deliberately deflated footballs and that quarterback Tom Brady was “probably generally aware” of the operation.