If only for just a few minutes, let’s assume Tom Brady panicked and destroyed his cell phone. Perhaps he had things on his phone that he was worried would be leaked to the public, but what if they had nothing to do with the inflation level of footballs?
Brady is a celebrity. His wife is a supermodel. Had we been talking about a team-issued phone, this would be a different story. Does destroying a phone on or around the day you are supposed to be interviewed look terrible? Of course, but is it out of the realm of possibility that he didn’t trust the NFL — the same organization that probably leaked this bogus report about the PSI level of game balls early on — to not leak the other stuff that may have been on his phone?