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Wells criticizes Patriots, Brady for lack of full cooperation

AP

Ted Wells says that both the Patriots as a franchise and Tom Brady as an individual cooperated with his Deflategate investigation — but with a major omission in both respects.

With the Patriots, Wells says, refusing to make employee Jim McNally available for a second interview was frustrating.

“The Patriots provided me, in my opinion, with substantial cooperation except in one critical and crucial area: I wanted to do a second interview with Jim McNally. Jim McNally was the second Patriots person I interviewed. I wanted, after I interviewed others including Tom Brady, to do a second interview of McNally, to put other questions to him,” Wells said.