TheOak

Coaches and staff influence Owners of NFL teams? As much as managers in a privately owned grocery store have over the owner (in this type of scenario).... Depends on the owner, but I would guess employees that are able to influence the owner of a business are not as prevalent as you would assume... At some point in the org chart the transparency stops, and the calculated message is delivered.

This is pure speculation on my part: There are 3 people who are quiet about Bounty Gate, and have been pretty much very quiet about the whole thing in comparison to the rest. Tom Benson, Mickey Loomis, Sean Payton...

Who influences Jerry Jones? Not the coaches, team, or the fans.

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Supertek

Guess you are right about the owner's being complicit with this whole deal and you are right I hate the man and want to see him out. Should know it is all about the money and greed. Anyway I hope all of the owners gain very little from this and get hammered. Shame the game and our season had to be compromised because of this, Speaks volumes about the real motives and lack of integrity of the NFL and their owners.

CharityMike

Hopefully Tom is sitting back, "taking one for the team", knowing that Goodell will be "taking one for the team" as well, when they fire his opie looking arse!

Shoe.

Other than a follow-up trip to NY by himself (which still puzzles me, mainly WHY and WHAT came of it), Benson has kept very quiet about this, and other than playing a concert with a pretty high-profile musician who was wearing a "Free Sean Payton" shirt, Sean and Mickey have kept their heads down and quiet. If that's not following what The Great Roger Goodell Himself Live and In Person told them to do from the get-go, I don't know what is.

tl;dr - I'm not holding my breath that we get our 2nd rounder back, but its hard to argue that Benson, Loomis, and Payton haven't kept a respectable silence about this whole debacle/charade, as directed by rog 5 months ago

lee909

If we get the pick back they will announce it just before the championship hip games IMO.They will want to pacify the fans and they will want to time it right.

Shoe.

great point

44Champs

Owners or no owners, Goodell is a jackhole. He is weak if he allowed the owners to create and impose the punishments without proper evidence. Or if he created and imposed the punishments on his own (perhaps with owner approval), then he has terrible judgement. Again, either way, he's a jackhole.

Rugby Saint II

Godhell is making the owners more money than ever. He's golden unless Vilma keeps this thing going for a whole lot longer.

Beastmode

Attendance has been at a steady decline since he took over. Not a big deal with the TV contracts but certainly don't want to be panning out to huge voids of empty seats. He has also lost some battles that cost the owners...the refs, the suspensions, and there may be more to come. Add the extra bodyguards, it starts adding up to ten of millions, maybe more before it's all said and done. I know he's a projection of them but if he loses the defamation case they are going to start thinking hard about moving on.