After 2 months off the radar, Bill Simmons is going scorched earth on everybody involved in Deflategate

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Bill Simmons is back and he is laying waste to everybody involved in building the Deflategate case against Tom Brady and the New England Patriots.

It was announced in May that Bill Simmons was done at ESPN and that his contract would not be renewed. Still under contract with ESPN until September, Simmons spent much of the next two months flying relatively under the radar until it was announced that he would joining HBO in October on a "multiyear, multiplatform" deal.

Since the HBO announcement, Simmons' activity has ticked up. With the NFL upholding Brady's four-game suspension, Simmons has taken to Twitter to voice his displeasure in a series of tweet and it appears nobody is safe.

It started on the day suspension was upheld. Simmons went right after Roger Goodell and the NFL, the very thing that presumably had a role in his dismissal from ESPN.

Dumbest part of DeflateGate (Day 192): People actually think Brady should have given his private cell phone to the NFL... aka, Leak Central.

- Bill Simmons (@BillSimmons) July 28, 2015

"Here, Roger, take my cell phone and all my private texts and pictures... You've handled every so honorably these last 9 years."

- Bill Simmons (@BillSimmons) July 28, 2015

I can't believe the arbitrator gave a favorable ruling on the Commissioner's original decision - it's like those 2 people were in cahoots.

- Bill Simmons (@BillSimmons) July 28, 2015

To be fair, Goodell handled Spygate, Bountygate, Rice, concussions and the ref strike so well that he deserves the benefit of the doubt.

- Bill Simmons (@BillSimmons) July 28, 2015

Simmons then went after the media, suggesting that ex-players who are now talking heads have an agenda while discussing Deflategate. Some of those talking heads have criticized Brady on ESPN:

After pointing to a Sally Jenkins column that attacks the NFL's suggestion that Brady's cellphone was important to the investigation, Simmons sarcastically pointed out the similarity to previous apparently inaccurate reports that made the Patriots look bad (for reference, the Patriots did not have a secret videotape of the Rams' pre-Super Bowl practice and there were not 11 footballs underinflated by two pounds).

So to recap: the Pats taped the Rams SB practice, Brady broke his cell phone, and 11 of 12 AFC Title 2015 footballs were 2 lbs underweight.

- Bill Simmons (@BillSimmons) July 31, 2015

Also - the Tooth Fairy takes teeth from under my kids' pillows and replaces them with money. That, too.

- Bill Simmons (@BillSimmons) July 31, 2015

Then after Chris Mortensen discussed not retracting his original report that 11 of the 12 footballs were underinflated by two pounds each, Simmons appeared to openly mock that decision.

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My bad. It turns out that @rembert is NOT the father of Kim Kardashian's second baby. I retract the report and I have deleted the tweet.

- Bill Simmons (@BillSimmons) August 4, 2015

Simmons wasn't close to being done. Next up was Colts general manager Ryan Grigson, whom Simmons calls "Ryan Sore Loser Grigson," and who went to the NFL prior to the AFC Championship game to have the league on the lookout for deflated footballs.

Ryan Sore Loser Grigson's name popping up in DeflateGate again reminded me of this unintentionally hilarious SI piece http://t.co/uwqP0TNRtg

- Bill Simmons (@BillSimmons) August 5, 2015

"To Grigson, scouting is not just a skill. It's a state of mind, and it doesn't stop when the film does." TRADED A 1ST FOR TRENT RICHARDSON.

- Bill Simmons (@BillSimmons) August 5, 2015

Grigson thinks of his roster as a bonsai tree. "I am constantly pruning it," he says. AGAIN, HE TRADED A FIRST FOR TRENT RICHARDSON.

- Bill Simmons (@BillSimmons) August 5, 2015

Next up was Indianapolis columnist Bob Kravitz who was the first to report that there was investigation and who later apologized for some of the storm he caused.

DeflateGate recap: Colts GM complains to NFL multiple times... NFL checks balls with most incompetent testing measures possible...

- Bill Simmons (@BillSimmons) August 5, 2015

After game, damaging info is leaked to local Indy columnist and then a national columnist as well... And we are off...

- Bill Simmons (@BillSimmons) August 5, 2015

Yeah who cares what Bill Simmons think. Your expert reporting experience led to this tweet - https://t.co/YmWh1oDD8T https://t.co/OEZccZ0P2B

- Bill Simmons (@BillSimmons) August 5, 2015

Over the last week, Simmons littered his timeline with other comments questioning the investigation, the methods used, the commissioner's role, and complimenting various media who produce pro-Patriots or anti-NFL material. 

Simmons still has two months left as an unused ESPN employee, but it appears that he is already done biting his lip.