I also read reports that they didn´t check the balls properly and they didn´t mark the balls as checked. Also more and more Players admit that they use/used to deflate/inflate balls because of what they prefer. If the Pats did deflate the Balls after the Refs checked the balls, they should be punished (whatever punishment, Draft Picks, Suspensions, Money...), but if the Refs did do a mistake it´s their fault as well. I am pretty sure the Pats are not the first team to play with deflated balls, they are just the ones who get blamed for it now. Their has to happen something within the rules and the Pats organisation, but now only blaming them is wrong as long as we do not know how that happened.