Yesterday the Patriots unveiled a rebuttal of about 20,000 words that meticulously criticized the Wells Report. But among their assertions were some unusual items that stood out:
• On Ted Wells saying that (team employee) Jim McNally took the bag of game balls into a restroom for one minute, 40 seconds prior to heading to the field:
“The report does not address whether one minute and 40 (seconds) is consistent with the time that it takes a gentleman to enter a bathroom, relieve himself, wash his hands, and leave. In fact, it is.”
• On McNally referring to himself as the “Deflator”:
“Mr.