Tom Brady denies breaking cell phone in Facebook statement

New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady denies the NFL’s claim that he destroyed his cellphone to hide evidence.

It looks like New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady has spoken out directly about his four game suspension being upheld by releasing a message on his Facebook page.

It starts off as expected, expressing his disappointment with the decision and then denying any wrongdoing on the part of himself and anyone in the Patriots organization.

Brady then goes on to mock the terminology from the Wells Report. that it was more than “probable” that he was “generally aware” of the violations taking place. Likely unaware that that terminology was specifically used because it was the threshold for discipline in the NFL.

But where it gets interesting is when it comes to the destroyed cell phone we learned about on Tuesday.

“I also disagree with yesterdays narrative surrounding my cellphone,” Brady wrote. “I replaced my broken Samsung phone with a new iPhone 6 AFTER my attorneys made it clear to the NFL that my actual phone device would not be subjected to investigation under ANY circumstances. As a member of a union, I was under no obligation to set a new precedent going forward, nor was I made aware at any time during Mr. Wells investigation, that failing to subject my cell phone to investigation would result in ANY discipline.”

That makes some sense, Brady feeling the need to not turn in his cell phone because he took a stand with his lawyers under the banner of the union and a precedent being set.

Brady then goes on to deny that the phone would’ve turned up any evidence at all and deny that he destroyed the cell phone.

“Most importantly, I have never written, texted, emailed to anybody at anytime, anything related to football air pressure before this issue was raised at the AFC Championship game in January. To suggest that I destroyed a phone to avoid giving the NFL information it requested is completely wrong,” Brady wrote.

But this is where Brady might begin to contradict himself. He said he replaced his broken phone, not destroyed it. To the average person who owns a phone, that typically means it was dropped and the screen was busted, otherwise it still works fine. People take these phones with damaged screens in and transfer data from that to their new phone all the time.

Brady, however, suggests that his phone was damaged to the point that there was no way to retrieve the messages from them. The other side is Brady saying this occurred during the appeal process and he had already disposed of the old phone, as a normal person would’ve done. He doesn’t really clarify, but it seems to possibly be the latter.

“To try and reconcile the record and fully cooperate with the investigation after I was disciplined in May, we turned over detailed pages of cell phone records and all of the emails that Mr. Wells requested. We even contacted the phone company to see if there was any possible way we could retrieve any/all of the actual text messages from my old phone,” Brady said.

Brady hasn’t done anything to clear up the timeline or NFL’s accusation that he destroyed his cell phone to avoid giving it over to Mr. Wells. He admits that Wells wanted the phone, that he refused to give it over, and that it conveniently was broken at the time to the point where he couldn’t have even turned it over if he felt like complying.

“There is no “smoking gun” and this controversy is manufactured to distract from the fact they have zero evidence of wrongdoing,” Brady writes.

Well it could be because the smoking gun was smashed to pieces.

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