Cromartie backs Brady, says Goodell ‘makes his own rules’

First, it was Bernard Pollard coming to Tom Brady's defense, now Antonio Cromartie?

Yes. The rival New York Jets cornerback weighed in on Deflategate, telling ESPN's "First Take" on Thursday that Tom Brady shouldn't be suspended and that the NFL should go by its rulebook and impose only a $25,000 fine.

“In the rulebook, there’s no suspension in the rules," Cromatie said. "There’s only a $25,000 fine, so I don’t see how you can try to lay the hammer down on someone when the rule states for itself there’s no suspension for it. Are we trying to go back to the Spygate and get more from that? Or are we just leading back to us, saying ‘Well, I have full control of everything. I made the rules as it goes, rather than follow the rules of what’s already been written.'”

As for Commissioner Roger Goodell, Cromartie says players beware: "Roger is going to do what he wants to do."

“Nobody’s safe no matter who you are," Cromartie said. "Roger is going to do what he wants to do. It don’t matter what the rules say. He’s going to make his own rules as he goes. And it shouldn’t be like that. But at the end of the day, we as players gave him the freedom to do whatever he wants to do. We signed the sheet. So we had our own fault for doing it. We should have been more detailed. We shouldn’t have rushed into things. We should have pushed it to another month and a half and made the owners lose money, and then you go from there.”