Brady destroyed his phone. If anything damages his reputation, it's taking that page from the Aaron Hernandez playbook. And if you believe he choose March 5 or 6 (the day of his meeting with Wells) completely at random, then you also believe McNally joined Jenny Craig for the purposes of personal deflation.
Brady has millions of backers because he's a humble winner. But the majority aren't basing their support on the evidence or the science or the flawed investigation. They're basing it on Brady's four Super Bowl titles, his unbelievable performances in the clutch, his heroism on the field, and that swoony cleft chin.
He's "Our Tom," and we're standing by him no matter what. But at some point, shouldn't we acknowledge the possibility that instead of a league-wide conspiracy perpetrated by haters of the Patriots driven to David Lynch-ian levels of jealousy by their success, that maybe Tom actually, you know, did it?
He looked like he was lying at his infamous I-don't-believe-so press conference days after the AFC title game. He sounded like he was lying at his appeal hearing, at least according to Goodell. And he certainly acted like he was lying by instructing an assistant to take a sledgehammer to his smartphone.
