In a different thread, a week or two ago, PatsFaninVA wrote wrote something to the effect that Robert Kraft is not "one of us." He's not our buddy, he doesn't sit with the fans, he doesn't post on a message board about the team or hope to get to training camp for a day or two to watch the team. He, and all the other owners, have a vastly different set of priorities and concerns about their teams than the fans do. Bedard's description of the owner's reactions to Kraft's actions after deflategate illustrates this gap.
The general feeling among NFL fans is that Kraft didn't do anything significant to defend his team or QB. Patriots fans, more than others, are familiar with the actions Kraft did take (the comments before the SB, the context site refuting the Wells report, and the amicus brief), but feel these were small, ineffective gestures, words with no action or threat of action behind them. They were window dressing on Kraft's capitulation at the owner's meeting in 2015.
To the other owners, though, these were aggressive acts and part of an all-out assault on the league. To them, Kraft may as well have taken a dump on the NFL shield and tried to push their faces in it. As hard as that is to believe from our perspective, the other owners are also unhappy that Kraft just didn't accept his team being framed and receiving an over the top punishment for a made up infraction. They either stopped paying attention during the week after the AFCCG in 2015 or know nothing happened and don't care.
As DaBruinz pointed out, there is something very wrong with the league hatching an owner-endorsed scheme to specifically harm one team. It raises the question of whether the league has engaged in manipulations like this before or will again. Ironically, in the name of curtailing "cheating," the NFL has revealed that there is a real possibility that the competition they are showcasing may not be on the level.
As for Kraft, he's left as a pariah. His own fans think he's a weakling who sold out to the other 31 owners. The other 31 owners are united against him and were happy to screw over his team. He isn't even left with an avenue for payback. Let's say Kraft hires a team of investigators, they monitor other NFL teams and document examples of equipment tampering, practice filming, PED deliveries, etc. The league is either going to bury those or punish them with small fines. Like with deflategate, the media will just go along with whatever narrative the NFL wants, that the Bears, for example, filming signals is a minor misunderstanding and just "part of the game." As far as we know, things will continue with one set of standards for the Patriots and one for everyone else.
