Former Seattle Seahawks linebacker Isaiah Kacyvenski — now a Boston-area sports technology executive with a Harvard MBA — downplayed the deflated football controversy yesterday, and had some props for the Patriots even though he’s rooting for his old team.

“In my eight years in the NFL, I know there’s always something very interesting on how the balls change from game day to game day, whether you’re home or away, or whatever you’re doing, and I know teams overall put a lot of tender care into balls as they go into games,” Kacyvenski said on Boston Herald radio’s “Morning Meeting” with co-host Jaclyn Cashman and Hillary Chabot.

The NFL confirmed to the Herald it is “looking into the matter” of deflated footballs during Sunday night’s AFC Championship Game between the Patriots and Colts. The allegations were first reported by WTHR-TV in Indianapolis. If the Patriots are found guilty of any wrongdoing, they could apparently forfeit draft picks, according to the original report, but the outcome of their 45-7 trouncing of the Colts is not in jeopardy.

“If they did find something, it’s not unheard of, and it’s not only a Patriots thing if it was. … In the end, you’ve got to throw the ball, you’ve got to catch the ball,” Kacyvenski said. “Nothing is going to come out of it. The fact is, every single team has a way to manage their balls, especially when they’re at home. So, I’ll leave it at that.”

“Being able to have certain balls for certain situations, that happens in practice, that carries over into a game, I know for sure,” he added.

Kacyvenski added some are just trying to take down the Patriots.

“People are always going to pick at you when you’re on the top. And I would think of that as a sign of respect in some weird, convoluted way, where people pick at you. Everyone’s going to try and knock you down,” he said. “But the fact is that nobody can take away the win, nobody can take away the Super Bowls, nobody can take away the path that they have written thus far.”

The Patriots, he added, are “a team to be reckoned with, and Bill Belichick and Tom Brady are as dangerous as they’ve ever been.”

He’ll be in the stands to see it all, he said: “I booked my flight five weeks ago. I go every year, but I assumed that the Seahawks were going to be in it — not that I don’t appreciate what the New England Patriots stand for and what they have done, but I’ll definitely be rooting for the Seahawks, I’ll be bluntly honest.”

Listen to the full interview at bostonherald.com.