If you are reading this article, then chances are strong that you already know of the discipline handed down yesterday by the NFL to Tom Brady and the New England Patriots organization. Brady was suspended for the first four games of the 2015 regular season and the organization was fined $1 million, in addition to being stripped of its 2016 first-round draft pick and a fourth-round draft pick in 2017.
You will also likely have noticed the absence of one name in particular from this list of disciplinary actions, a name that tends to have its fingerprints on every conceivable aspect of the Patriots on an organizational level.