Before getting to the financial report of the Packers indicating the NFL’s overall unprecedented good health, a note on the league's decision to uphold Tom Brady’s four-game suspension.
It is not hard to see why the discipline was upheld. Despite the lashing out by Brady’s agent Don Yee (“a sham”), the NFLPA (“outrageous”) and even the Patriots (“incomprehensible”), my problem with the Brady defense over the past six months was that, besides an attack on the science used in the Wells Report, there was no defense, nothing to help exonerate, exculpate or free Brady from blame.
Even after the Wells investigation found Brady to be evasive and noncompliant, commissioner Roger Goodell had publicly solicited Brady to offer up something to allow a reduced or removed suspension.