BIG story on the horizon.
Pats lose in the 2006 super bowl, as we all know.
In the 2006 offseason, Brady leads the charge to get NFL to change rule so teams can manage their own game balls.
Starting in 2007, Pats have been a statistical anomaly, every single year completely off the charts, for FEWEST FUMBLES.
We're talking staggering number. Any player that comes here improves, the falls off when they leave. No change in any training or policy, just magically the balls didn't fumble anymore. Complete mirror opposite of Pats from 2001 to 2006.
So it's looking like "deflategate" will date back to the start of the 2007 season. For 8 years now, Pats have had an amazing advantage in fumbles, among other things.
If Spygate gave them the advantage for the 1st half of Brady's career, we now have some real mounting evidence that *something* was giving them an advantage for the second half.