FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Tom Brady is preparing for the New England Patriots’ season opener rather than the start of the four-game suspension a federal judge overturned last week.
But Brady expressed regret Sunday that the two low-level team employees the Patriots suspended indefinitely May 6 as an NFL-appointed investigator probed an alleged ball-deflation scheme — John Jastremski and James McNally — aren’t here with him.
“I think that, you know, it’s been a very tough situation for everybody,” Brady, two-time NFL MVP, said in his first session with reporters in months. “It’s been a lot of stress on everybody’s families, and I feel bad that anybody’s in the position that we’ve been put in.