As someone who hates, in ascending order, Belichick, Brady, the Patriots, Patriots Nation, Illinois Nazis, and the entire population of the Boston SMSA, I think this is nonsense. The only thing that surprises me is the story didn't drop during the dead week before the next Patriots Super Bowl, which is to say 3 weeks from now.
It'll end someday, like the Dump Presidency, or smallpox. It will probably have some recriminations and loose ends. But this is the greatest dynasty in football history and the best run, best coached, and best quarterbacked team in football history, saying all of which is like drinking pure Hydrochloric acid. If they were going to be torn apart by petty silliness, they would have sometime around 2003, and f-ck god in eternal torment for not making it so.