The text messages were from a time in *October* when the refs apparently gave Brady balls for play during the Jets game that they’d pumped up to nearly 16 PSI, and Brady was pissed and ranted at the game officials and the equipment staff. McNally was pissed at being the end of the chain when the fuss rolled down hill. Applying that to the Colts game certainly sounds damning, but is it reasonable?
That was only part of what the texts were about.
IMO Brady is guilty—I thought that as soon as he sounded so ridiculous in his presser before the SB.
For the standard the NFL has, yeah, I think there’s enough there, considering that the “Deflator” is the one who locked himself into a restroom with balls when they suddenly lost pressure.
Personally, however, I’d like to have it more cut and dried to go publicly pulling down a guy’s reputation like that.