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Roger Goodell is 100 percent certain the NFL got Deflategate right

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In general, it's dangerous to proclaim 100 percent certainty about anything. But NFL commissioner Roger Goodell did just that when asked by NBC's Matt Lauer if he got Deflategate right.

"Yes," Goodell said without hesitation, according to PFT, adding: "We went through a very exhausting process with this. We had an independent investigation."

Exhausting, yes, exhaustive ... much less so. The Wells Report, which cost the NFL more than $2.5 million, was short on incriminating evidence, though that didn't keep the league from suspending Patriots quarterback Tom Brady for the first four games of the 2016 season.