In the end, Tom Brady elected to give up his war with Roger Goodell and the NFL and accept his four game suspension for the Deflategate saga.

But, that wasn't the quarterback's only option it appears.

ABC News released an excerpt from the new book "12: The Inside Story of Tom Brady's Fight for Redemption," which chronicles Brady's fight with the league for allegedly deflating footballs during the 2015 AFC Championship game. In the excerpt it reveals that a deal was on the table for Brady to serve zero games.

As we all know, the league threw down a month long suspension for the then-four time Super Bowl winning quarterback. While these two sides ended up battling it out nearly all the way to the Supreme Court before Brady gave up his fight, the book relays that Roger Goodell offered Brady simply a $1 million fine, but for that reduced punishment he had to throw John Jastremski and Jim McNally to the wolves.

"He demanded that Brady state publicly that former Patriots equipment guys [John] Jastremski and [Jim] McNally had purposely tampered with footballs, even without his knowledge," authors Casey Sherman and Dave Wedge write as relayed by ABC News..

"Tom said no."

“There’s no way I’m gonna ruin these guys for something I believe they didn’t do,” Brady is said to have told DeMaurice Smith, executive director of the NFL Players Association and Brady’s legal representative, according to the passage.

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Following the this nugget of information from the Deflategate saga became public, NBC Sports Boston's Tom E. Curran shed even more light on that situation. He reports that McNally even offered that the quarterback could use him as a fall guy if need be, but Brady refused.

If this passage in the book is to be believed (and there's no reason why you shouldn't believe it), this paints Brady in a very good light and the NFL in a rather bad one. With Brady, this is a pretty genuine move on his part not letting McNally and Jastremski feel the wrath of an entire football league. As for the NFL, it simply shows how dysfunctional that entire operation seemed to be and Roger Goodell seemingly looking for a situation to flex his power as commissioner.

McNally and Jastremski have yet to really be heard of since the Deflategate saga. Both were suspended by the team reportedly at the request of the league, but were later reinstated. Neither has even gone on the record to speak about the saga and were not able to contacted for this new book.