Daily Talker: Explaining 'The Deflator'

Late Thursday, Commissioner Roger Goodell ruled that he will hear Tom Brady's appeal of his 4 game suspension.

Earlier in the day, the Patriots made it clear they will not go down without a fight.

The team released its response to Deflategate and the Wells Report. Included in that response was an unusual explanation for the revealing text messages between locker room attendant Jim McNally and equipment assistant John Jastremski.

In a text message sent to Jastremski, McNally referred to himself as the "deflator."  According to the Patriots, there's a simple explanation for McNally's nickname:

"Mr. Jastremski would sometimes work out and bulk up -- he is a slender guy and his goal was to get to 200 pounds. Mr. McNally is a big fellow and had the opposite goal: to lose weight. "Deflate" was a term they used to refer to losing weight. One can specifically see this use of the term in a Nov. 30, 2014 text from Mr. McNally to Mr. Jastremski: "deflate and give somebody that jacket."

Do you believe the Patriots explanation for why the word 'deflate' was used in texts between 2 team staffers?

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