Except I disagree. If it was Peyton Manning, there was no way he would have gotten the suspension Brady did nor would they have manipulated the results of the Wells report like they did to make sure it convicted Brady when the results were questionable at best. Manning would have been exonerated. It was all about the Patriots and how everyone in the league think they constantly cheated and get away with it. Brady was a victim of the team's reputation and was stripped of his star player privileges.
In fact, it was any other team, Deflategate would never have happened.