If you are truly interested in how this all came about please read the entire Wells Report and the NFL response to the Brady appeal.
It will not take long and what you see will, if you are not a totally blind pats fan, a preponderance of facts in evidence to convict anyone of what Brady was involved in.
I see enough that the Patriots took Goodell’s implied leniency if they didn’t fight it, something that hooked the Saints earlier before it was reversed. At best, you have a team offense, and the team should have been fined the 5-8,000 dollars set out in the rules. This puts the penalty at the same level that the Jets faced for doing the same thing two years before this. It does not square with no penalties for the Vikings, Packers, and Colts who were all caught with altered footballs. If $1,000,000, a draft pick, and four games is the penalty, then all these teams should face it.