Tom Brady On DeflateGate II: 'Inconsequential To Me'
BOSTON (CBS) -- Drama surrounding the inflation (or deflation) of footballs has already taken up enough of Tom Brady's time.
The first DeflateGate controversy already took up 18 months of Brady's life and ended up costing him four games. So the Patriots quarterback wasn't going to insert himself into the new "sequel" that surfaced on Sunday.
It was reported on Sunday that the New York Giants had some suspicions about the footballs being used by the Steelers last weekend in Pittsburgh. That has quickly been dismissed by the NFL though, unlike the drama that followed similar accusations from the Indianapolis Colts towards the Patriots following the 2014 AFC Championship Game.
Brady was suspended for four games after a lengthy (and expensive) investigation into that ordeal, which he served to start the 2016 season after a long court battle. When asked about this new controversy on Monday night, Brady quickly said he's moved on and isn't interested in this new DeflateGate in his weekly interview with Jim Gray on Westwood One.
"You know Jim, it's really inconsequential to me," Brady told Gray (via The Boston Globe's Ben Volin). "I really had put my situation behind me a long time ago and they'll decide whatever they want to do. That's their prerogative as a league, but for me, I got plenty of things that I have moved on from and I have to worry about. My job is football and playing well, and that's what my focus is, especially just before one of my biggest games of our season."
When asked if he had any advice for the NFL on how to handle this new controversy, Brady deferred.
"I'll leave that to all the Patriots fans," he said. "I'm sure they have strong opinions."
If you were expecting anything else from Brady, who was asked just a few hours prior to New England's Monday Night Football showdown with the Baltimore Ravens, you're not familiar with the quarterback's playbook.
