Bedard just said on Beadle & Zolak that the team basically "jumped on the grenade" for McNally by not making him available for the final interview that Wells & Co. requested. The way he told it, during the BountyGate investigation, Gregg Williams was interviewed a number of times, and the final time the investigative team hit him with a preponderance of evidence that he and the Saints had been lying in various capacities to the league and its lawyers, and Williams "folded on the Saints and came clean". Bedard believes that Wells was going to do the same thing with McNally, basically hitting him things that could induce him to turn on Brady and the team. I'm sure there will be debate about the "evidence" Wells could've shoved in McNally's face, but it does appear that he did lie a couple of times in the investigation (first that he didn't go into the bathroom with the balls, then that he went in there to use a urinal, which that bathroom does not actually contain). If Bedard's story is true, I'm real glad the Pats counsel prevented him from doing that final interview, and potentially turning on the team.
Not sure how this plays with the report that the Pats made McNally available by phone; has that been confirmed? Or is it still just a rumor?
edit: phrasing/clarification