With all the talk about Tom Brady, deflated footballs, and ‘gaining a competitive advantage’, I felt like I needed to get something off my chest.

While the whole world – well at least the world of football – were talking about PSI, deflators, and independent investigations, I’ve just sat and shook my head.

For what it’s worth, I think Tom Brady did have some involvement in the ‘Deflategate’ scandal, but I don’t really care. All 32 teams will bend some rules, some will even break them, and when it’s minor issues like that, I don’t really care.

However, if you’re going to talk about gaining a competitive advantage, why the hell aren’t Lovie Smith and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers under investigation?

Obviously, it can’t be confirmed, but to me it’s pretty clear that they tanked their final game of last season against the New Orleans Saints in order to make sure that they had the number one draft pick for the 2015 NFL Draft.

The Bucs were leading the Saints 20-7 at halftime, and Mike Evans was having a field day. The Saints couldn’t cover him. He got benched at halftime.

A lot of the other Bucs starters got benched too, and despite having had a terrible game, Drew Brees managed to score 16 unanswered points and lead the Saints to victory. Sounds great, but in truth Brees just beat up on a bunch of backups.

This loss allowed the Bucs to take Jameis Winston with the first overall pick in the draft. That’s a huge advantage. Now Marcus Mariota might turn out to be a better player than Winston, time will tell, but the Bucs got to choose exactly who they wanted, and also ensured a divisional rival got a worse pick. That’s a competitive advantage.

Now, like I said earlier, teams will look to do whatever they can to gain a competitive advantage.

But if you’re going to try to punish one team for a minor equipment offence, why wouldn’t you investigate the possibility that a team lost a game on purpose?