He says today his cell phone was broken, he didn't destroy it.

http://www.sbnation.com/2015/7/29/90662 ... er-goodell

From Brady's Facebook page:

"I also disagree with yesterdays narrative surrounding my cellphone. I replaced my broken Samsung phone with a new iPhone 6 AFTER my attorneys made it clear to the NFL that my actual phone device would not be subjected to investigation under ANY circumstances. As a member of a union, I was under no obligation to set a new precedent going forward, nor was I made aware at any time during Mr. Wells investigation, that failing to subject my cell phone to investigation would result in ANY discipline.

Most importantly, I have never written, texted, emailed to anybody at anytime, anything related to football air pressure before this issue was raised at the AFC Championship game in January. To suggest that I destroyed a phone to avoid giving the NFL information it requested is completely wrong."

Your cell phone just happened to break before the investigators want it? Right. You disagree with the NFL narrative? If that's your way of formulating a denial, it's pretty weak. If you had nothing to hide, why didn't you just hand it over and the matter would have been done with? But you did. It wasn't about setting a bad precedent, which is just a cover-up excuse.

Stop it already, Tom. You're becoming the next O.J.

You missed the part where he said he wasn't obligated to give it to them anyway.

In a civil trial he would have to, and that will almost certainly be brought up in his coming litigation.

If you were falsely accused, wouldn't you hand over your phone, if asked for, to clear your name? What's the big deal, unless you had been texting your mistress? Maybe he was and that's what he didn't want anyone to find out. To say that he wouldn't hand over the phone on legal principle in a non-court situation because he wasn't obligated to do so was just plain dumb in his situation. If he had nothing to hide, then why fight it? Whoever has been counseling him lacks any common sense. Of course his lawyers would say fight it. That's how they get paid.

Read his entire statement.

After not being told that he would get suspended if he didn't provide the information he actually ended up giving them everything after the fact.

The fact that penalties for actions or no actions become evident and now the NFL is looking to estalblish them is something that will work in Brady's favor.

As a matter of common sense and general management I wonder if the league sent warnings to teams before this? which I doubt.

Would think this would open up a pandoras box for the league....

This rule occurs if a team has more than six captains, one captain isn’t in an official uniform, or they’re late for the coin toss. If this happens, they lose their coin toss options and the other team can receive the ball twice at the beginning of each half.

Official uniforms means all uniform parts including helmet to be worn.

So, Can the Patriots say they get the ball twice if a team comes out with one playing not wearing a helmet?

Sure can, its in the rule book...and it states a clear penalty for the actions or lack thereof.

Should the NFL do it? Hell no.....

The actual rule says that the penalty will be a $25k fine. Not lost draft picks and players being suspended for a quarter of a season.

Brady is taking some really bad advice from guys who want to charge a lot of legal fees.

All he had to do was say, "look, I told those ball boys that I wanted the balls a certain way. They took it to far like they were spies or something. I certainly didn't tell them to tamper with the footballs after the officials check them"

Then pay the ball boys off to take the fall. He had to do at least a small mea culpa. That's all the NFL wanted.

Less credibility: Tom Brady or Lance Armstrong?

By far Lance Armstrong. C'mon. Brady is a liar but he's lying about something that's a nothing.

Brady played in wrong from the beginning cuz he thought it was no big deal and would just go away. Got to point of no return so he has to keep going.