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Florio was one of the few that started asking questions of the league publicly early on in the bounty gate scandal. He got some heat for it but stuck to his guns. He wanted to see the evidence.

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Karma is real!

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Re: Hold Roger Goodell to standard he set for Saints, and fire him: Editorial
 

the NFL is obviously too cowardly to fire roger

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It's not the tape, it's that the tape adds to his shameful body of work of poor decision making and the unfairness and unevenness in which he throws around his weight.

He went to great lengths on the Starcaps incident. He and his army of lawyers pursued it to the ends of the earth, same with Bountygate. The Pats though, all the evidence was destroyed with a mild slap on the wrists. If this tape does not get out Rice is back on the field in 2 weeks. 2 weeks!!! It's sickening, more than "I got it wrong", more than just poor judgment. It's unacceptable on the same level as many of his other verdicts.

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'Players should take a stand'

You mean pull together and present a united front?

That's the NFLPA which is headed by Demaurice Smith who is presently trying to get drug testing standards lowered so players can get high and hide PED masking agents easier.

He doesn't have the testicular fortitude to go after Goodell when he needs him so Gordon can play again this season and help his fantasy team.

The NFLPA looked at the present CBA, saw an increase in compensation and signed. Never gave a thought to the other 80 pages and the absolute power they gave the commissioner. Greed created this, let them deal with it.

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Put me on the list of people who honestly do not give a sh** what happens to Goodell. The Rice incident has nothing to do with the Saints in that nothing that comes out of this will affect us. We not get our #2 pick back, we will not get Payton back from that lost season, and we will not get our credibility back from those who do not understand that we were made an example of.
Goodell made $44 million last year. He will never want for anything. He will not face criminal charges. He f***** us, but we will never get restitution. I really could not care what happens to him next.

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All I can say SF is that if that someone could have challenged RG on the way the Pats case was handled of destroying evidence and making it all go away there may have never been a bountygate or there would have been something that certainly was more just as the outcome. It matters. It matters because time and time again he makes these insane judgment calls that he is unqualified to make and it trashes the game. You never know when or where he will strike next.

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"Houston, we have a problem".
I'm not sure why I'm good with fundamentals. Maybe it's my background in the legal side of real estate..... idk, but you have to research back to the foundation and build forward to really know what you have.
From my perspective the problem is not Goodell per se'. The problem is the system.
Goodell is only a product of the system, and the system is rooted in despotism. Frankly, Goodell is a dictator with too much power. And absolute power corrupts absolutely.

The NFL should come out next season with brand new contracts for every Coach and NFL Player that consists of a list of itemized rules, expectations, regulations, and guidelines & also precise and transparent reprimands for each offense.
And, as with all things where humans are involved, there will always be grey lines. For grey areas there should be a panel (jury) made up of Owners, Coaches, and perhaps HOF players that decide the level of punishment for an undefined offense. This would take the power & responsibility (& most of the corruption) to judge & execute penalties out of the hands of the Commissioner (the despot).
Right now there are no clear & consistent lines of punishment for breeches of NFL policies. The punishment is whatever the commissioner says it is. I'm sure Goodell likes that system because it makes him a supreme being.... or Stalin.

Franchise owners and Coaches have the collective power to change this authoritative system.
And I think they should.