Since the start of the Deflategate investigation, there was a lot of questioning of Ted Wells' standing as an independent investigator.
The situation got so heated that Wells held a fiery teleconference to fire back against Tom Brady's agent, Don Yee, for questioning his independence.
But in the end, as this goes to court, it's a moot point, says Tom E. Curran.
"Whether he was independent or not doesn’t matter because in the CBA, it doesn’t say he has to be independent," Curran said. "It’s a bait-and-switch. It's a shell game. It’s more semantics by the NFL."