I am filled with glee. The longer they keep dragging this out, the longer "Cheater" get associated with the patriots and tommy. Seriously, all you find on search engines is nothing about any accomplishments for either one. You have to go deep to find something not about them cheating.
It's called the Streisand Effect. If he had worked with the league and was upfront with them, he probably would have gotten a fine and 1-2 games. Everyone would have moved on. If he keeps dragging this on, all that happens is his name gets associated more and more with cheating. In five years, someone will google Tom brady and there will be more stories about him cheating than anything he accomplished in his career.
He's basically intimated that. Some of his statements give the impression he would prefer to be as far away from those decisions as everyone wants him to be.
I've never heard anything, but good things about his ability to run a business though.
He's also spoken about problems caused in his marriage and his family by the schedule of coaching. He's said he's happy with where he is. I imagine if he wanted an NFL job even with "control" that he could find one.
Hockey players are catching up. You've got one guy who beat his wife, the Richards drama, and hell, the Sabres new Star player drove into a Tim Hortons.
I think the problem, OP, is that you watch ESPN.
Recently, it came to light that ESPN is shedding viewers at a rapid pace. They have lost 7.2% of their viewership and are getting rid of salary. I thought it was 3 million, but that means about 7.1 million viewers and the prospect of regaining them doesn't look very good. ESPN's contracts with major cable companies has a provision that says if they make an online offering (like HBO Now) then their contract is terminated and the cable companies can offer ESPN ala carte (Cable providers want to dump ESPN because of the high price). A study shows that only 35% of people would keep ESPN if it wasn't forced on them. The money paid to ESPN works out to about $6.50 for every cable subscriber.
In short, ESPN is poised to start losing a lot of revenue. Their contract prevents them from making an online option without losing their cable revenue and the cable companies want to dump the channel(s). They're getting rid of a lot of staff since the writing is on the wall.