It was a backroom deal to get Brady off. Kraft said it himself, and then Goodell tried to fuck them double.
Would I accept a punishment if in the bigger picture it cancels out and more? Yes.
So your franchise admitted that they were guilty and accepted the punishment in order to get their QB out of the mess. Yet they weren't guilty at all and accepted a punishment for a crime they didn't commit? And then the deal with Roger and Kraft fell through? One that plenty around here denied of even existing?
I would never accept pleading guilty for something I didn't do, even if it meant a lesser punishment. If you are innocent, you don't bend. Maybe that's just me.