Goodell citing Brady's destruction of his phone is a load of crap. Brady already made it clear he wasn't turning it over to Goodell. Moreover, they DID offer to put all those calls and texts out there for the record, and said if Goodell wanted to know what's there he can contact the people on the other end of those calls and texts. Goodell said that's not practical. Too f-ing bad. They spent $5 million and several months putting the Wells Report together. They could have easily gone and tried to get this information that Brady offered. They didn't.
The destruction of the phone (honestly, whatever THAT means) sounds and looks bad, no doubt. But it's nothing more than Brady saying, no really, you are NOT going to get my phone, period - something he already made abundantly clear. Would it really have been any different in reality if Brady simply said, look, the phone is buried in a vault and it's never coming out, period? If that had been the case, would Goodell have said, oh well, as long as you didn't destroy it, that's fine?
No, he wouldn't.