Nobody's budging.
The announcement coming from U.S. District Judge Richard Berman in a Manhattan court room, declaring that settlement talks between Tom Brady and the NFL are essentially dead, surely was not the definitive word that so many interested parties hoped to hear Monday.
Yet given that it’s come this far, on the brink of the ruling by Berman that he hoped could be avoided, now is not the time to blink.
While the billable hours for the attorneys increase, the basics are status quo.
Brady and the NFL Players Association lament a disciplinary process that resulted in a four-game suspension for the two-time MVP for being “generally aware” of a scheme to deflate footballs for the AFC title game, even without concrete evidence nailing the New England Patriots star.