Tom Brady, where are you?

It’s been two weeks since we last heard from Patriots quarterback Tom Brady at his Salem State pep rally. The NFL commissioner is looking for him.

“I look forward to hearing directly from Tom,” Roger Goodell said at the conclusion of the owners meetings in San Francisco on Wednesday. “If there’s new information or there’s information that can be helpful to us in getting this right, I want to hear directly from Tom on that.”

Now that Bob Kraft has gone and laid down on the sword of the league in refusing to fight the overbearing sanctions bestowed on his franchise, the Deflategate attention shifts to Brady, fighting his four-game suspension presumably with a certain measure of the backbone that his owner displayed in taking his acrid medicine.

Aside from his canned responses to Jim Gray a fortnight ago, Brady has been quiet on the topic of the Wells Report since it was released earlier this month, even as his reputation took an jab, and his contemporaries, a segment of the NFL population that now includes former teammate Darrelle Revis, drag his illustrious legacy into the gutter of back page perception.

We’ve hardly even heard from Brady’s agent Don Yee lately. Yee, who made the rounds early and often in the immediate days after Brady was found “more probable than not” to be monkeying with the air pressure in footballs by the league’s 243-page manifesto, has been rather quiet since Ted Wells called him out in a conference call last week.

We may still be a week away from getting the first, real comments from Brady, who appealed his suspension last week with the league. Next Friday is his annual flag-football game at Harvard Field to help benefit Best Buddies. Rob Gronkowski, Julian Edelman, Danny Amendola, Nate Solder, Jerod Mayo, Tedy Bruschi, Dan Koppen and Scott Zolak are also expected to attend. Along with celebrity chef Guy Fieri.

It would probably behoove Brady to address the situation prior to then, lest he turn his charity’s signature event into a morass of stupidity. Aside from Fieri, that is.

Goodell did say on Wednesday that Kraft’s decision to accept the league’s $1 million fine and the loss of two draft picks will not have any bearing on the NFL’s decision on whether or not to reduce Brady’s suspension. Most assume that a kinder, gentler Goodell would go a little easier on Brady in the wake of his pal Kraft’s lack of fight earlier this week. Please. The argument for Brady serving out the entirety of his punishment and returning Week 6 against the Indianapolis Colts is a story line too delicious for league partner NBC not to be drooling over. Don’t think that hasn’t been suggested heavily.

“I have great admiration and respect for Tom Brady, but the rules have to be enforced on a uniform basis and they apply to everybody in the league,” Goodell said. “They apply to every club, every individual coach, every player. We put the game ahead of everything.”

Well, not really. They don’t put the game ahead of money.

Otherwise, that’s a statement that sounds a little ominous for what Brady’s future might bring. And we can all agree that what Brady did is pretty much on the same level as what Ray Rice, Greg Hardy and Adrian Peterson found themselves suspended for, right?

“The key for us is to allow any information that Tom Brady and his representatives have… is there any new information that he can bring more clarity to or something that wasn’t considered in the Wells Report?” Goodell asked. “That’s the reason for the process and why we continue to have an open mind and we’re going to do everything possible to understand all the facts.”

Yee has been awfully quiet about releasing the transcripts from Brady’s supposedly lengthy meeting with Wells. Brady’s father hasn’t accused anyone of framing his son lately. The only development we’ve witnessed with Brady is that he returned from the Bahamas earlier this week.

But the plot has thickened, even since thousands cheered his every move on the North Shore two weeks ago. Mainly, what exactly did Goodell tell Kraft over the weekend that forced the billionaire to turn his back on his quarterback, head coach, and fan base, and what can that possibly mean for Brady himself? If the Wells Report indeed went easy on the team, imagine what it had on Brady, barely quoted in the damning evidence.

Maybe we’re beginning to realize why that was. Wells or Goodell may have been doing Brady a favor.

Still, the NFL is punishing Brady for his lack of cooperation as much as the banality of his 12.5 psi preference, an ironic decision for sure seeing that this is the very same league that was not exactly up front about when its integrity-driven commissioner first saw the Rice elevator tape. But Goodell has made it clear this isn’t a two-way street, that his dictatorship has no limits.

So, what exactly is Brady going to bring to the table to convince him to reduce his suspension?

This could for sure be one, short appeal process. And we’ll all conveniently reconvene in Indy.

In the meantime, Brady owes the league an explanation. Patriots fans can only hope he’s fighting to “extend it” in the opposite vein that his owner cowardly “ended it.”

Kraft is finished, four months after never getting his apology. The ball in in Tom Brady’s court.

His lack of comment has been deafening. Time to break the silence.