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Former NFL official said he was long suspicious of Patriots' Jim McNally (Shutdown Corner)

Clearly I was being far too confident this morning when I wrote that we could hopefully go a few days without hearing about Deflategate after the NFL announced that it had reinstated Patriots employees John Jastremski and Jim McNally, the pair named heavily in the Wells Report.

Because here we are six hours later and the D-word has reared it's ugly head - again.

This time it's courtesy of WTHR Indianpolis reporter Bob Kravitz (who broke the Deflategate story in the hours after the AFC Championship), who has former NFL linesman Mark Baltz saying that he was long suspicious of McNally, the game-day worker who served as a locker room attendant and was in charge of shuttling the Patriots' footballs to the officials and then to the field.