National Football League

Revis has no sympathy for Brady, Patriots in Deflategate scandal

Published May. 21, 2015 8:07 a.m. ET

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Darrelle Revis was Tom Brady's teammate last year, but doesn't mean he's on Brady's side in the ongoing Deflategate controversy.

Revis, who returned to the New York Jets after signing a five-year, $70 million deal in March, told the New York Daily News that he doesn't feel bad for the four-time Super Bowl-winning quarterback.

Far from it.

"Everybody's blowing it up because it is Tom Brady," Revis said Wednesday. "I understand that. But if (the NFL) feels he did the crime or he did something and they want to penalize them, then that's that. (The Patriots) have a history of doing stuff. You can't hide that.... Tom was there when they did that stuff in the past."

Brady was suspended the first four games of next season, and the Patriots were fined $1 million and docked two draft picks after the Wells Report linked them to the team's use of under-inflated footballs during last year's AFC title game.

Revis helped the Patriots win their fourth Super Bowl title, which is the latest New England championship to come under question. Patriots coach Bill Belichick was fined $500,000 and the team was ordered to pay $250,000 in 2007 for their actions in the Spygate scandal.

"New England's been doing stuff in the past and getting in trouble," Revis said. "When stuff repeatedly happens, then that's it. I don't know what else to tell you. Stuff repeatedly happened through the years. You got Spygate, you got this and that and everything else. Obviously in those situations in the past, they had the evidence. So they did what they needed to do."

Revis believes that Brady's stature in the game shouldn't play a role in any potential reduction in his punishment, which Brady is currently appealing.

"If I fail a drug test, then I fail a drug test. If I get a DUI, I get a DUI," Revis said. "If Tom gets caught with a DUI, it's a DUI. .... If they are saying that he did what he's done, then the suspension is the suspension. I'm not the commissioner and don't make the rules. If they want to change (the suspension) based on new information or new evidence, then okay, but it should have nothing to do with Tom being the face (of the NFL)."