Kraft was instrumental in Goodell being hired as commissioner, and IMHO, Goodell functions as Kraft’s sock puppet.
If Goodell was Kraft’s sock puppet then the Pats wouldn’t have been the first team busted for taping. There’s plenty of indications that they aren’t the only team that does it, plenty of other targets Goodell could have made an example of to get Kraft to stop, instead he busted the Pats. If that’s a sock puppet it’s a damn uncomfortable sock.