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Ex-Pat Spat: Revis calls out Patriots

By Alex Butler
New England Patriots Darrelle Revis speaks to the press during Super Bowl media day at the U.S. Air Arena in Phoenix, Arizona on January 27, 2015. The Patriots will take on the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl XLIX on Sunday, February 1. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI
New England Patriots Darrelle Revis speaks to the press during Super Bowl media day at the U.S. Air Arena in Phoenix, Arizona on January 27, 2015. The Patriots will take on the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl XLIX on Sunday, February 1. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI | License Photo

FOXBOROUGH, Mass., May 21 (UPI) -- Just a season ago Darrelle Revis and Tom Brady were teammates drowning in a confetti shower in Arizona after winning Super Bowl XLIX.

But the glow could have dimmed since for Revis, who thinks Brady's DeflateGate suspension should stand.

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Revis, now a member of the New York Jets, told the New York Daily News that he didn't know if Brady was a cheater.

"I don't know," he said. "I don't care. It doesn't matter. If people want to judge him as a cheater, that's their opinion."

Revis signed a five-year, $70 million deal with the Jets this offseason.

The Patriots, who have been consumed by a cloud of cheating suspicion before, were also the target of another Revis critique.

"Everybody's blowing it up because it is Tom Brady," Revis told the Daily News. "I understand that. But if (the NFL) feels he did the crime or he did something and they want to penalize them, then that's that. (The Patriots) have a history of doing stuff. You can't hide that.... Tom was there when they did that stuff in the past."

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The Jets were fined $100,000 by the NFL over a public comment team owner Woody Johnson made about Revis that was a violation of its anti-tampering policy. While still with the Patriots last December, Johnson said of Revis: "(we would) love Darrelle to come back."

Revis also played for the Jets from 2007-12.

"New England's been doing stuff in the past and getting in trouble," Revis said. "When stuff repeatedly happens, then that's it. I don't know what else to tell you. Stuff repeatedly happened through the years. You got SpyGate, you got this and that and everything else. Obviously in those situations in the past, they had the evidence. So they did what they needed to do."

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