Ben McAdoo doesn’t know anything about the Steelers deflated footballs except for all the details

Deflategate Part II is not happening. Let’s be clear on that.

Yet, there are some inconsistencies with what the Giants are saying took place during the Steelers game last week.

From the top now: Jay Glazer reported on Fox’s Week 14 pregame show that New York had some concerns about the PSI of the footballs being used in Pittsburgh last week and alerted the NFL.

The NFL quickly responded by issuing a statement that “all footballs were in compliance.”

(And we should pause here to acknowledge just how much the NFL hates this story since the only thing the league has ever done that fast is hand out fines.)

Clearly this was not a situation the Giants wanted to talk about after their massive Sunday Night Football victory over the Cowboys last night. New York coach Ben McAdoo tried to parry the inevitable questions about it in his postgame press conference and, either wittingly or unwittingly, completely contradicted himself and what he knew about the Giants’ complaint to the league.

“I don’t really know anything about it,” McAdoo told Art Stapleton of NorthJersey.com. “I just know that they said that they felt a little … I don’t know, the PSIs were a little low, so they checked them, and they just let me know they checked them.”

So other than all the details, the coach doesn’t know anything about it. Got that?

As Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk pointed out, because the NFL doesn’t have a “formal complaint” from the Giants, it can essentially brush off the situation as minor, or procedural, and continue saying that everything was fine.

Big picture: New York has won seven of its last eight games. McAdoo has the team rolling and the last thing he needs is the hell storm the word “Deflategate” brings to come and play distraction while trying to lock up a playoff berth.

Small picture: The one game New York dropped in its last eight seemed sketchy enough that the Giants alerted the league about the PSI of the balls being used and then tried to play it off like they didn’t know anything, and if they did it was no big deal.

So much for avoiding that distraction.