Replied "Tom Brady says he likes the footballs right at 12.5 PSI, but weren't the balls about 2 PSI below the minimum? If that is supposedly "the perfect" pressure according to him, then he would surely have noticed such a discrepancy. This leads me to believe he lied to the media today about what he prefers and merely stated 12.5 as that is the minimum regulation PSI, when in reality, Tom prefers them in the 10-11psi range. Belichick knew, but the reason they were deflated was to meet Tom's needs. Whoever actually deflated them is irrelevant as I'm sure they were just doing what was expected of them by their employer/face of the franchise."