Belichick is in the head of literally everyone who has anything to do with the NFL. Goodell, referees, owners, coaches, players, announcers, media, ball boys...everyone. No one wants to believe a coach can be as good as he is so they desperately try to find reasons to diminish his credibility as arguably the greatest coach in the history of the league. It's very obvious and extremely sad.
It makes you wonder if Vince Lombardi ever dealt with the same kind of shit? Were other coaches furious that they struggled to beat him no matter how much work they put in? Would they label him a 'cheat' at the first hint of a completely insignificant competitive imbalance to justify their own failures? The Patriots won 45-7, mostly behind a power running game, and people are talking about whether a football weighing 11.5 PSI versus 12.5 PSI is the reason why because it would have made it easier to throw and catch the ball. Just stop. This makes the NFL look like a league full of crybabies who don't know how to use failure as a motivational tool to improve.
Also, it's a shame that the NFL would let this be a distraction to one of the teams competing in the Super Bowl just as their two week preparation period begins. The Patriots should only have to worry about what they need to do to beat one of the best defenses in perhaps the history of the league; that in an of itself is a daunting task. The fact that during these next two weeks players and coaches will now have to deal with laughable 'cheating' questions in the wake of an AFCCG beatdown is completely shameful to the league, media, and perhaps most of all, the Indianapolis Colts.
If I'm Pagano, I pull a trusted reporter aside today and say, "You want an interview? Let me tell you all about how we got out-coached and out-played yesterday, this way our players know they need to improve this offseason if they want to win next year. We would have lost yesterday using glow-in-the-dark Nerf balls." The last thing I would want, if I were him, is for my players to think they could have beaten the Patriots yesterday if the ball wasn't - possibly - slightly deflated. You're giving them an excuse to think they're already good enough and Pagano knows they're not.
NFL - clean this up and clean it up quickly. These types of 'leaks', not the possibility of slightly deflated footballs, are becoming an embarrassment to your league and isolating large parts of your fanbase for absolutely no worthwhile reason whatsoever.