I have look at this unbiasly. I will try to objectively explain my though process to you for all your points. Try and take your homer glasses off when you read this and remember I don't give a shit if he cheated or not. As a Giants fan, every team you beat in a super bowl makes my Giant's super bowl victories that much more impressive.
Brady never texted McNally or mentioned him by name, nickname, or any other reference. Brady texted JJ who then texted McNally (going by "Bird" in his phone, outlined in the Wells Report) and in one text - without context - said "He brought you up". JJ said this comment wasn't about footballs but instead about the tix he was trying to unload.
Brady didn't text JJ. Brady hadn't text or called him for six months before the AFCCG. He did personally talked to JJ about the inflation rate from the jets game, which JJ for some reason thought was relevant to a guy, McNally, who has no job responsibilities to handle, inflate, or deflate footballs. And then JJ says Tom asked about McNally even though Tom doesn't know him. I mean you say:
The Wells Report also says that everyone in the building corroborated that Tom had almost zero contact with McNally throughout the almost 20 years he worked with the Pats. His gameday responsibilities had nothing to do with Tom. Which is why McNally asked JJ if he had to ask the permission of JJ's boss just to ask Tom for an autograph. Doesn't exactly sound like a couple of guys on a first name basis, asking for permission to ask for permission, now does it?
So here are two guys that work together for 20 years but aren't on a first name bases and everyone says they never interact but Tom Brady is all of a sudden concerned about McNully's stress levels? How would Tom know anything about what McNally was going through? I find that very odd. And the he in that text message is definitely Tom. I base this fact not only on the previous text message where McNully says "Tom sucks" but also on how McNully replies with "Fuck Tom" That's an odd way to respond to someone concerned about your having trouble selling tickets because your sister isn't doing well. But not really an odd way to respond to someone passively blaming you for not deflating the footballs to his liking even though your taking a big risk to do it.
The texts do address the "I'm not going to ESPN...yet" comments as well as the Deflator nickname. The ESPN comment was about stealing shoes/game day gear from the locker room, and the Deflator was a fat joke - at least according to the rebuttal.
Anyone who thinks espn would think a story about an equipment manager giving away equipment to other members of the staff has no idea how equipment and gear distribution works in high level football. Football teams get mountains of new gear every year. More than they'll ever need. Even with them giving it to every employee they have. And every year that have to get rid of the old stock because the clothing companies want to push there new styles. It's not unusual for some stuff to be given away to friends and coworkers during this transition. It would non story unless they were selling the gear in some sort of scheme. And even then it would have to be huge amounts of money for ESPN to give a shit. A much more enticing story would be deflategate and as you can see media is already eating it up.
If McNally and JJ did mean deflator in regards to footballs, why did JJ send McNally a text saying "Why don't you deflate and give someone that jacket"? Also, if the Pats had been deflating balls, why would there be texts that say "The refs pumped them to 16PSI, they fucked us". Wouldn't McNally have just deflated them down after he got them from the refs?
He could use the word deflate in regards to weight in one instance and then refer to himself as the deflator because he deflates footballs for Brady in another instance. They aren't mutually exclusive. I believe the latter is true because of three reasons. 1)McNally on multiple occasion text JJ about his effect on the inflation rate and size of the gameday footballs and relationship between the gear that JJ is getting him. 2)McNully reference multiple times how his effect on the inflation rate of the football will directly impact Tom Brady's performance. 3)McNully has zero job responsibilities that have him handling, inflating, or deflating footballs. I could care less if he used the term deflate to relate to weight some other random time in a text message to JJ.
Also, if the Pats had been deflating balls, why would there be texts that say "The refs pumped them to 16PSI, they fucked us". Wouldn't McNally have just deflated them down after he got them from the refs?
I've already debated this with another Pats fan. Read this if you want my in depth explanation of why that's not a logical conclusion https://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/35wbjx/change_my_view_thread/cr95i7g?context=3 TLDR Not all of the balls were inflated to 16psi, McNally doesn't have a gage just a needle, McNally was caught by surprise when he was in the bathroom deflating the balls, McNally can't tell the pressure of the ball just by touch, the high pressure of the situation caused McNully to panic and leave in his usual less than two minutes and not risk deflate balls too much as refs would be able to notice a 4+psi drop in balls.
The only testimony from Tom in the entire Wells Report is him saying to bring a copy of the rule book to the refs so that they don't add more pressure after they've been set to 12.5. Why would he bring attention to the process if he's only going to deflate them later?
Because Tom didn't have rules brought to the refs to show them that 12.5 is ok. He did it as a way to tell the refs that inflating above 13.5 is not ok. He was still pissed about the jets game and want to tell the refs off and this was the method he chose. He brought attention to it because the refs over inflating the balls so much it was messing his performance. Which is a fair criticism. The ball should be between 12.5-13.5, and anything outside that range it should be brought to the ref attention. I don't think Tom did anything wrong here, but I don't think he was trying to draw attention to the fact that he prefers 12.5 but to remind the refs not to inflate it above 13.5
As far as physical evidence goes, I believe the patriots that it is possible that the loss in pressure could have been cause by the environment. I don't think it proves 100% that it could have only been caused by environmental factors. The fact that the most damning evidence isn't the physical evidence but the text messages, the inconsistencies(lies) in Brady's interview, The unusual change in communication between Brady and JJ following the AFCCG, and the lack of cooperation by both the patriots and Tom Brady, despite public messages that they were, lead me to believe that it's very likely that members of the Patriots organization including Tom Brady, tampered with footballs not only for the AFCCG but for multiple game in the 2014 season and likely at least one game in previous seasons.