Earlier this week, Mike Florio released an excerpt from his new book, Playmakers, where he claims the NFL expunged the numbers from post Deflategate PSI spot checks on the direct order of NFL general counsel Jeff Pash.
During the 2015 season, following the 2014 AFC title game between the Patriots and Colts which started Deflategate, air-pressure checks of footballs were conducted league-wide.
Florio added that the PSI numbers for games played in cold weather came in “too close to the actual numbers generated by the New England footballs at halftime of the playoff game against the Colts.”
At his state of the league press conference at the Super Bowl Wednesday, Goodell was asked by Ben Volin of The Boston Globe regarding the report.
"This is a long time since I thought about Deflategate," this commissioner said. "We were very clear that we were going to do spot-checks to make sure people were following the policies. That is something we fully engaged in and I don't know what happened to the data, to be honest with you. We don't look back at that. We just make sure there's no violations. That is the purpose of the spot-checks. Are there violations? And if there are violations we look into it. Thankfully, we did not see any."
Goodell seems to be taking a page out of Bill Belichick's playbook by saying, "I don't know."