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Ted Wells, who headed up the NFL’s Deflategate investigation, came out swinging today at Tom Brady’s agent.

Wells sounded angry that agent Don Yee questioned whether the Deflategate investigation was truly independent, saying that Yee had engaged in “personal attacks” which were “out of bounds, unfair and just plain wrong.”

“It is wrong to criticize my independence just because you disagree with my findings,” Wells said. “I think that is wrong and that is what motivated me to speak today.”

Wells noted that he has a reputation for independence and that no one said when he was first appointed that he couldn’t properly handle the Deflategate investigation.

“The conclusions in the report represent the independent opinions of me personally and my team, and those conclusions were not influenced in any way, shape or form by anyone at the league office,” Wells said. “We made a fair and reasonable review of the evidence, and we reached conclusions based on the preponderance of the evidence standard, which I was required to apply based on the league’s rules. To the extent Mr. Yee is suggesting that I have some type of conflict because I and my law firm do other work for the NFL, I want to be clear that it is well know that I worked for the NFL in the Miami Dolphins investigation involving Jonathan Martin and Richie Incognito, and also that it is known that I represent the NFL in the concussions case. Those facts were well known at the time I was appointed. When I was appointed to be the independent investigator, no one at the Patriots or Mr. Brady’s camp raised any issue of my independence.”

The Patriots may not think so, but Wells insists that his investigation was thorough and fair.