Kraft would have saved some face with his fanbase if he had said just that, and not talked about goosebumps from being part of the Old Boys Club and, worst of all, defending Roger yet again. As big a football fan as I am, I'm not sure I have another Deflategate in me, and nothing has been done to alleviate fears that this will just happen again. Know you're gonna get your ass kicked pre-game? Contact Kensil/Vincent, write up an email, let the league handle the rest. Were they even guilty? The PSI numbers suggest they weren't, the texts combined with the awful excuses suggest they were, so we'll really never know. That's not even the point to me. The rest of this gigantic circus, the way the league lied and let the Pats twist in the wind and get destroyed by world media, the absurd punishment over a rule nobody has ever cared about that the refs likely routinely ignored, it's all bullshit. And if they keep winning, it's probably going to happen again.
I don't think I've ever really understood Belichick's "it's a player's game" perspective in full context until now. The owners are doing their best to ruin one of the country's best products, and Kraft is playing a lead role.