New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft addressed for the first time the February 2 bombshell allegations from the Boston Herald regarding allegations that the team he owns cheated in the Super Bowl six years ago.

“A newspaper made a damaging allegation about the so-called Matt Walsh affair,” Kraft said on Monday.  “I believe it’s something that never happened.  If so, why wouldn’t — two months later – anything have come out?  But we live in a society where people can make any kind of allegations.  But then, it has to be substantiated.”

Though Kraft didn’t tiptoe onto the next stone of logic, an inability by the Herald to substantiate the allegations could expose the newspaper to a lawsuit from the organization.

But that’s for another day, if ever.  For now, the focus remains on Walsh.  Said Kraft:  “[H]e never signed any confidentiality statement with us, so as far as I’m concerned, I don’t know why he doesn’t just come out and speak.”

Let’s repeat that.  “[H]e never signed any confidentiality agreement.”

The supposed existence of a confidentiality agreement is what kept Walsh from spilling the beans to the New York Times on January 31, two days before Super Bowl XLII.  But there isn’t one. 

The non-existence of a confidentiality agreement previously was buried in a marginally-related article by Mike Fish of ESPN.com, and the non-existence of said confidentiality agreement was ignored by the rest of the media. 

It shouldn’t be.  If there’s no confidentiality agreement, there’s no reason for Walsh not to talk.  So if he’s not talking, he’s not talking for other reasons. 

So what the hell are they?

We have a feeling that we’re more likely to find out the number of licks it takes to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop.