NFL commissioner Roger Goodell doesn't know if the league plans to release data collected from air-pressure readings of footballs this year as part of new procedures.

This point was highlighted in Peter King's widely read "Monday Morning Quarterback" piece on TheMMQB.com.

Writes King, "I think one thing I heard out of the league meetings in New York last week disturbed me. Commissioner Roger Goodell was asked if the data from testing air pressure in footballs in random games this fall will be released to the public. 'I don’t know,' he replied. In random games, the league is testing the air pressure of the footballs pre-game (as always) and then again at halftime. Officials will log the data, then remove those balls from play. In the second half, 12 backup balls per team will be used, and then those balls will be gauged and the measurements logged after the game. So, about whether the data will be made public, it’s a big mistake if kept under wraps. It has to be made public, or else the public’s going to think the NFL is hiding the results. The NFL can’t simply say, 'The balls were in compliance.' Goodell said before the Wells report was released that the league would be totally transparent and we would know what Wells knew when Wells finished the report. So why is this different? I can guess. The NFL wants to reserve the right to not issue the measurements if it makes the league’s case against Tom Brady look bad."

King adds this: "I think what I’ve thought all along about the psi measurements of the footballs: The New England footballs from the AFC Championship Game may have been doctored. But how will we know for sure if we don’t see the measurements from similar games later in this season -- games with weather data similar to that from the Jan. 18 Patriots game? And why would the NFL not want to publicize the data from games with the same approximate weather? There is only one conclusion to be drawn: That the league doesn’t want to be shown to have blown the Brady discipline (and the docking of two draft picks and $1 million from the Patriots) by prematurely whacking Brady and the team so hard."

King's thoughts are topical with the Patriots preparing for Sunday's road game against the Colts. The Colts, of course, blew the whistle on the inflation level of Patriots footballs leading into the AFC Championship Game.