Jeff Blake on 'Deflategate': 'Every team does it'

Jeff Blake was an NFL quarterback for 13 years and knows a little something about throwing a football. 

Blake stopped by "The Midday 180" radio show in Nashville and said "Deflategate" is being overblown. 

"I'm just going to let the cat of the bag, every team does it, every game, it has been since I played," Blake said. "'Cause when you take the balls out of the bag, they are rock hard. And you can't feel the ball as well. It's too hard. Everybody puts the pin in and lets just enough air out of the ball that you can feel it a little better. But it's not the point to where it's flat.

"So I don't know what the big deal is. It's not something that's not been done for 20 years."

Blake explained how he did things when he played. 

"As soon as they give them the balls," Blake said. "On the sideline before the game. The quarterbacks would come out to warm up in pregame ... I would just say, 'Take a little bit out, it's a little bit hard.' And then they'd take a little bit out and I'd squeeze them and say 'That's perfect.' That's it."

The league is expected to rule whether or not the New England Patriots illegally deflated footballs during the AFC title in the coming weeks.