Clearly there aren’t any hard feelings between Drew Bledsoe and Tom Brady after Brady slid into Bledsoe’s starting QB role with the Patriots in 2001.
In a Thursday interview, Bledsoe openly defend Brady and his alleged role in the now infamous Deflate-gate scandal.
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“I don’t see Tom as a guy who would set out to maliciously break the rules for an advantage,” Bledsoe said, via The Boston Globe .
And, unlike Jeff Blake earlier this week, Bledsoe said he never even thought to alter the air pressure in the football prior to a game.
“Never once in my 14 years as a starting quarterback did I know what the PSI of a football was… It never came up,” Bledsoe said. “I may have played with underinflated footballs my entire career. I really have no idea.’’
A former Patriots ball boy, who asked to remain nameless, told The Boston Globe that Brady never mentioned anything to him about air pressure.
“The only thing I knew about his preferences were that he chose the balls that were more broken in and the ones he liked the grip of,’’ he said. “He never said anything about inflation levels.
“We took brand-new balls and went through the standard process of rubbing them down and scrubbing them with football brushes,’’ the former ball boy said. “Even then they were pretty slick, so we played catch with them to break them in some more.’’
Earlier this week, Hall of Fame QB Joe Montana — Brady's boyhood idol — put the full responsibility of the scandal on Brady .
The controversy has seemed to take a backseat to Sunday’s Super Bowl over the past several days, but the rumors and opinions are sure to swirl for the foreseeable future.