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Another good one.
Momentum shift?
Fuel to the fire:
And this might highlight the genius of Robert Kraft's decision to call off the dogs. When Kraft first announced his intention, the thinking here was two-fold: A). Kraft and Goodell probably came to some agreement on the Brady suspension and B). Kraft backed off because he had little more to gain in pressing the issue further.
Read the whole thing, as the man says.
National Deflategate focus beginning to shift to Roger Goodell, NFL
and away from Tom Brady, New England Patriots
Kevin Duffy | [email protected]
http://blog.masslive.com/patriots/2015/05/national_deflategate_focus_beg.html
The close:
Now, it seems as though there is a third layer to this. From the minute the Wells Report was released to the minute Kraft surrendered, the national conversation was the Patriots vs. the NFL. As the Patriots have removed themselves from the battle, the heart of the conversation has shifted away from the organization's perceived arrogance in fighting to prove its innocence when most people agree that they're not innocent.
The best possible outcome for the Patriots was never proving their innocence or Tom Brady's innocence. The best outcome was proving that the NFL never cared about deflated footballs (WellsReportContext.com essentially did that) and proving that Roger Goodell's motives have little to do with protecting the "integrity of the game" and more to do with protecting and re-building Roger Goodell's image.
What's worse: An organization that commits a minor violation and refuses to admit it or the league office that turned the minor violation into a scandal of Clinton-Lewinski proportions so it could reap two benefits -- the international hysteria generated by said scandal and the subsequent appeasing of the masses with heavy-handed punishment.
By stepping aside, the Patriots have all but conceded guilt, which means the conversation concerning the Patriots' guilt has stopped. The spotlight has moved Goodell, who, on cue, tripped over his own feet in Wednesday's press conference.
Surely, there will be more of that to come.
Items cited:
Sally Jenkins of The Washington Post blasted Goodell in a column Thursday, essentially arguing that Deflategate was manufactured by the NFL and Goodell to help restore the commissioner's credibility.
Bleacher Report NFL analyst Brad Gagnon recently wrote a piece titled, "In Court of Public Opinion, Roger Goodell's Reputation Might Be Beyond Repair." Gagnon focused on the wild inconsistencies of the punishments handed down by Goodell
Dan Le Batard of The Miami Herald also addressed the NFL side of this controversy in a column titled, "NFL, Roger Goodell have incredible credibility issue."
But what do you do, as a league, when you don't actually have as much integrity as you badly wish for others to believe you have? You punish and over-punish in protection of that integrity you don't have to give the illusion that you have it to protect."
Jenkins http://www.washingtonpost.com/sport...2c8d2c-ffd4-11e4-805c-c3f407e5a9e9_story.html
Gagnon http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...er-goodells-reputation-might-be-beyond-repair
Le Batard http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/dan-le-batard/article21202491.html
Momentum shift?
Fuel to the fire:
And this might highlight the genius of Robert Kraft's decision to call off the dogs. When Kraft first announced his intention, the thinking here was two-fold: A). Kraft and Goodell probably came to some agreement on the Brady suspension and B). Kraft backed off because he had little more to gain in pressing the issue further.
Read the whole thing, as the man says.
National Deflategate focus beginning to shift to Roger Goodell, NFL
and away from Tom Brady, New England Patriots
Kevin Duffy | [email protected]
http://blog.masslive.com/patriots/2015/05/national_deflategate_focus_beg.html
The close:
Now, it seems as though there is a third layer to this. From the minute the Wells Report was released to the minute Kraft surrendered, the national conversation was the Patriots vs. the NFL. As the Patriots have removed themselves from the battle, the heart of the conversation has shifted away from the organization's perceived arrogance in fighting to prove its innocence when most people agree that they're not innocent.
The best possible outcome for the Patriots was never proving their innocence or Tom Brady's innocence. The best outcome was proving that the NFL never cared about deflated footballs (WellsReportContext.com essentially did that) and proving that Roger Goodell's motives have little to do with protecting the "integrity of the game" and more to do with protecting and re-building Roger Goodell's image.
What's worse: An organization that commits a minor violation and refuses to admit it or the league office that turned the minor violation into a scandal of Clinton-Lewinski proportions so it could reap two benefits -- the international hysteria generated by said scandal and the subsequent appeasing of the masses with heavy-handed punishment.
By stepping aside, the Patriots have all but conceded guilt, which means the conversation concerning the Patriots' guilt has stopped. The spotlight has moved Goodell, who, on cue, tripped over his own feet in Wednesday's press conference.
Surely, there will be more of that to come.
Items cited:
Sally Jenkins of The Washington Post blasted Goodell in a column Thursday, essentially arguing that Deflategate was manufactured by the NFL and Goodell to help restore the commissioner's credibility.
Bleacher Report NFL analyst Brad Gagnon recently wrote a piece titled, "In Court of Public Opinion, Roger Goodell's Reputation Might Be Beyond Repair." Gagnon focused on the wild inconsistencies of the punishments handed down by Goodell
Dan Le Batard of The Miami Herald also addressed the NFL side of this controversy in a column titled, "NFL, Roger Goodell have incredible credibility issue."
But what do you do, as a league, when you don't actually have as much integrity as you badly wish for others to believe you have? You punish and over-punish in protection of that integrity you don't have to give the illusion that you have it to protect."
Jenkins http://www.washingtonpost.com/sport...2c8d2c-ffd4-11e4-805c-c3f407e5a9e9_story.html
Gagnon http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...er-goodells-reputation-might-be-beyond-repair
Le Batard http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/dan-le-batard/article21202491.html