Report: NFL investigation into deflate-gate centers in on Patriots attendant

The NFL might not be talking to Tom Brady until after the Super Bowl, but it apparently has focused in on a New England Patriots locker room attendant who might have illegally tampered with footballs, per Fox Sports' Jay Glazer.

The full text of Glazer's report indicates that the league's investigation into the deflate-gate incident has focused on the attendant who allegedly took footballs from the officials' locker room to another area on the way to the field. It's not clear if this was an isolated incident for the AFC title game, or if this was behavior that occured habitually for all games.

Glazer writes that the NFL has interviewed the attendant and, per Glazer's sources, possess video of the attendant's actions. The league is still trying to determine if there was any wrongdoing that happened, but the attendant is considered to be a "strong person of interest" in the investigation.

Is it likely that a ball boy went rogue and decided to doctor the balls without receiving instruction to do so? No, which makes this interesting. Remember Matt Walsh, the man responsible for the taping during the Spygate incident? He told his story, which received a lot of media interest back un 2007, before dropping from NFL sight.

The Patriots are scheduled to speak to the media Monday evening for the first time since arriving in Arizona for the Super Bowl on Sunday against the Seattle Seahawks.

There might be one or two questions about these new findings, but it's likely that Bill Belichick — who will speak as well — is likely to remain mostly quiet and fall back on the comments of his impromptu press conference in which he said he felt "100 percent confident" that his team did not break any NFL rules.

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Eric Edholm is a writer for Shutdown Corner on Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email him at edholm@yahoo-inc.com or follow him on Twitter! Follow @Eric_Edholm