First off I am a diehard Pats fan.
The phone destruction thing seems really bad. Would Brady really destroy his phone if the only thing on there was admission of him doctoring balls? A practice that a lot of Qbs around the league do? If he was willing to destroy his phone then I'm wondering if there was something worse on there.
Then again a player with the competitive streak like Tom Brady is unlikely to accept a loss, even if refusing to accept it makes things much worse for him.
This whole thing really seems like the NFL was out to get Brady and the Patriots. In the Ray Rice case the NFL did everything they could to sweep it under the rug, including not searching out a security feed that TMZ was able to get. Yet when it comes down to the practice of deflating footballs that other qbs have admitted to doing they hire as many investigators as they can?
Regardless of what happens in this case, the NFL needs to come up with a uniform set of guidelines to deal with suspension issues, because right now it seems like they are making up the rules as they go along which is hardly fair.