Sally Jenkins nails it, again

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sport...c12e28-1e76-11e5-bf41-c23f5d3face1_story.html



Roger Goodell can restore a sense of loftiness to the NFL commissioner’s office with a simple expedited decision. He should lift the suspension on Tom Brady this week, and turn his disciplinary eye on the vague, sloppily enforced league rules that caused Deflategate in the first place. This is his best way out of this infernal case, which is as damaging to Goodell and the league office as it is to Brady and the New England Patriots.

Sound and logical thinking, so of course Goodell won't listen.

What kills me is Kraft's silence, his guys are clearly innocent!

I actually feel bad for Walt Anderson

I have no idea what kind of person he is but he probably deserves better than this

I'm glad that the article, unlike the URL, does not use the word pardon, which implies forgiveness from guilt.

eom said:

I actually feel bad for Walt Anderson

I have no idea what kind of person he is but he probably deserves better than this

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Maybe. maybe not. Yet another case where I'd really like to see the unedited transcripts of his interview(s) with Wells. It definitely seems possible that Wells twisted the hell out of his words, and he's caught between his words being used to convict a team that he knows probably didn't do anything or going against his boss.

Or it's equally possible--at least as far as we know--that he's in full-on CYA mode, and is willing to throw an entire organization under the bus to deflect from the fact that he didn't do his job to the letter.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sport...c12e28-1e76-11e5-bf41-c23f5d3face1_story.html

The Voice of reason again.

Roger Goodell can restore a sense of loftiness to the NFL commissioner’s office with a simple expedited decision. He should lift the suspension on Tom Brady this week, and turn his disciplinary eye on the vague, sloppily enforced league rules that caused Deflategate in the first place. This is his best way out of this infernal case, which is as damaging to Goodell and the league office as it is to Brady and the New England Patriots.

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Jerry Thornton just got excited - again.

sorry Mods. Must have been simultaneous posting. Please feel free to merge

It sounds to me like he did his job fine, and apparently told the truth about using the one gauge.

Guy's just caught in the middle of this petty vendetta nonsense

This Sally lady is one tough girl!

The fact that she has to repeatedly write these articles every few weeks means nfl doesnt really care to do the right thing.

I'm surprised they didn't just lie more and fudge the PSI numbers. If you're going to ******** why not go all the way? It's definitely possible Walt meant 7.5 psi and not 11.3.

His own reputation as well as the authority depends on his ability to put fairness above office politics.

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She is absolutely right. But when has Goodell ever put fairness above politics? The NFL is imploding and Goodell and the owners seem intent on riding it to the bottom.

SVN said:

The fact that she has to repeatedly write these articles every few weeks means nfl doesnt really care to do the right thing.

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No kidding. It's like writing letters to the parole board...

Hoodie said:

sorry Mods. Must have been simultaneous posting. Please feel free to merge

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You must have at least been "generally aware." Gotta hammer down on this guy for ruining the integrity of patsfans!

SVN said:

The fact that she has to repeatedly write these articles every few weeks means nfl doesnt really care to do the right thing.

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Yeah I can imagine the NFL office gets this article, some lowly intern reads it, then informs his boss who tells him to forget about it, then gets the Network Admin to block the website so Goodell dosent know about it.

NFL*

I am deflated.

Goodell is trying to establish his authority as a disciplinarian (not the guy who winked at the Rice incident) who wields immense power. To lift the suspension on the grounds that there is insufficient data would also require that he restore the draft picks and the fine and admit that he and the NFL (Vincent, Kensil, Pash, etc.) in issuing harsh discipline acted without appropriate protocol or investigation and without carefully considering the evidence.

Mack Herron said:

Goodell is trying to establish his authority as a disciplinarian (not the guy who winked at the Rice incident) who wields immense power. To lift the suspension on the grounds that there is insufficient data would also require that he restore the draft picks and the fine and admit that he and the NFL (Vincent, Kensil, Pash, etc.) in issuing harsh discipline acted without appropriate protocol or investigation and without carefully considering the evidence.

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agreed. what Sally is suggesting should have been done 6 months ago. I don't think he'd ever do it now.

Hoodie said:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sport...c12e28-1e76-11e5-bf41-c23f5d3face1_story.html

The Voice of reason again.

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Can we trade for her?

How about Dan Shaughnessy and Ben Volin plus a photographer to be named later?

No matter how much and how coherently Sally writes; so long as the video stays on top of her articles with the FALSE ACCUSATION that the balls were 2PSI under.....none of the casual readers are going to pick up on the true atrocity going on.