New England Patriots were given the green light by the NFL on Wednesday to reinstate Jim McNally and John Jastremski, the suspended staffers who allegedly tampered with footballs in the “Deflate-gate” saga.
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Jastremski, a Patriots equipment assistant, and McNally, a locker room attendant, were at the center of the Deflategate scandal.
“In all my years working with locker-room attendants, Jim McNally, without a doubt, is probably one of the most professional of all the locker-room attendants in the National Football League”, Daopoulos said. When you left the locker room, you’d lock the door and they’d stay right there. Baltz said he worked “10 to 15 games” in Foxboro and McNally asked him for the balls early the “first few times” but eventually stopped because he realized Baltz was not going to hand them over. So in that, yes, it makes Tom Brady, I think, look guilty.
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He claims that McNally’s actions were freaky to the point that he reported them to the league. Baltz said he believes that at the time he reported McNally, the league didn’t believe that he was engaged in anything that could be deemed a “big deal”. Jastremski, who transported the balls from the referee’s locker room to the field, aroused suspicions by taking a 100-second bathroom break, which, Wells theorized, allowed him to let air out of the game balls.
Jastremski similarly can’t have anything to do with preparing, overseeing or handling footballs that will be used during NFL games this season.
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Regardless of where Jastremski and McNally wind up in the Patriots organization, it seems pretty obvious that everything regarding Deflategate is finally dying down.
