IT'S NOT so much that they cheated, it's how they cheated.
It's not so much that they protested, it's how they protested.
They cheated with utter arrogance and disdain.
They protested with utter arrogance and contempt.
Again.
For this, the NFL should excoriate them.
Ted Wells spent almost 4 months compiling a 243-page report that, on its surface, exonerated coach Bill Belichick and owner Robert Kraft from culpability in the actual deflation process. There was no evidentiary proof of their knowledge, which, strictly speaking, affords them plausible deniability.
Common sense never will let them off the hook.