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There was a game of will Tom Brady play or won’t he before last Thursday’s Patriots preseason game against the Packers that was ultimately settled when Brady made a cameo appearance in the game.

Tuesday has seen similar uncertainty about whether Brady will attend Wednesday’s hearing in Manhattan regarding his attempt to have his four-game suspension wiped out. Brady wasn’t at practice on Tuesday and reports were that he planned to attend the hearing despite Judge Richard Berman deciding it wasn’t necessary that the Patriots quarterback or NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell be in the courtroom.

Settlement talks were going on in the case on Tuesday and it seems the result of those talks have pushed Brady in the other direction. Albert Breer of NFL Media reports the talks are at a “standstill” and that the judge has informed Brady that there’s no reason for him to be in attendance on Wednesday. As a result, Tom Pelissero of USA Today reports that Brady is expected to be back at practice with the team instead.

Mike Florio reported last week that the NFL demanded “a laundry list of concessions regarding the Wells report and the NFL’s authority to suspend Brady and other players for conduct detrimental to the league and obstructing a league investigation” in order to reach a settlement that reduced Brady’s penalty. That was a non-starter for Brady and the NFLPA and if things haven’t changed much in this week’s talks, we may be waiting for Berman’s ruling before we’re certain about the answer to Brady’s status for the first four weeks of the season.