Ted Wells Sued for Defamation by ex-Dolphins Coach Jim Turner

Months after Wells was hired to investigate Deflategate, the NFL finally admitted that the league was not compelled to hire an independent investigator to look into the matter.

Turner’s suit targets Wells and his law firm, Paul, Weiss of New York, and alleges that the NFL commissioned Wells and Paul, Weiss to shape their report in order to leave the league and law firm essentially unharmed while attacking specific individuals such as Turner.

Turner was fired by the Dolphins after the Wells report was released.

“Coach Turner is a good man and a great coach with an excellent reputation among his players”, the report states.

Richie Incognito, who was accused of harassing Jonathan Martin, who later left the team, told Newsday that Wells did not report evidence from his teammates that would have tempered the case against Incognito.

The report claims that Turner pressured Martin to “do the right thing”, and clear Incognito’s name.

Incognito, who has been given a second chance this season as a Buffalo Bills guard, called NFL commissioner Roger Goodell’s “absolute power” part of the problem with investigations.

Wells is smack-dab in the middle of the ongoing Deflategate controversy after producing a report that said New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady was “generally aware” that footballs were being deflated.

And suddenly, the revelation that “independent” investigators paid millions of dollars by the NFL are under pressure to come to conclusions in line with the NFL’s desired outcome hits like an atom bomb. They arrive in with an agenda they usually are available trying to discover details to again up their argument.

It is case study on the pitfalls of the ever-growing appetite to be the first to report, or becoming a puppet of a powerful entity, or forming an opinion without all the facts at your disposal.

Does anybody envy Ted Wells? He strongly believes his inability to attain a future coaching position in the NFL is possibly permanent.