Some MAS musings on a number of early season NFL developments:

■ If you're buying Tom Brady's innocence in the much-to-do-about-nothing Deflategate "scandal," then I've got some 'gator-infested swampland in the nearby Everglades that you'd probably want to snap up as well.

There is no way in Hades that, at some point in time, either Tom or an intermediary did NOT pass the word on to the two locker room attendant lackeys (who ended up taking the fall) that he preferred his balls slightly deflated.