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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.And, yet, the NFL tried to correct Schefter about two minutes after he tweeted that Brady's defense team was given 4 hours to present their case, 5 if the NFL agrees to it.This was a non-event until they bungled it to make it one, and Goodell had to go into CYA mode from the moment Mortensen was allowed to air his false report without a correction from the NFL. Complete joke, Goodell should have been fired long ago.
I agree, and I think it's worth quoting the rest of the paragraph:Truer words have never been spoken
Under his occasionally distinguishable leadership, the NFL has found itself, in only the past few years, on the wrong side of domestic violence, child abuse, pharmacology, neuroscience, and, most notably, its own silly rules regarding the Ideal Gas Law. Under Goodell, the league's response to all of these has been reflexively wrong, reflexively dilatory, and reflexively tin-eared. Only when public outrage became audible on Jupiter did the league and Goodell take even half measures to address any of these problems, and by God Goodell's solutions were inadequate when it mattered most and crushingly excessive when it didn't really matter at all—as in the case of Tom Brady's deflated footballs.
Personally I'm not fond of the "unscrewable pooch" stuff...
I can't stand the way Charles Pierce writes.
Thank God the Pats won the super bowl otherwise this whole Deflategate buffoonery would be just unbearable.
It's still pretty close to unbearable because the proudly ignorant public doesn't want the facts to be anything but "Brady is guilty" and "the Pats are cheaters and always will be." If we had lost the SB, there may have been a lemming like line forming to swan dive off the Pru.
Amongst all the flowery words, I get the sense he thinks Brady is guilty but the transgression was so minor that a simple fine would have been okay.
Clearly the NFL lost complete control of this minor issue, as once Mort came out with the fudged figures it was over.. all of the leaks that occured in the first week were strategic, a poor strategy nonetheless planned.
Did they learn from this?? Probably not as they will overreact once again and Goodell is complicit in this whole matter...
Same here. I usually just avoid him, but sometimes the topic is so interesting to me that I can't help but check it out, only to find myself annoyed at his writing or simply disinterested despite my initial enthusiasm.
On the rare occasion that I actually finish a Pierce's article, I'm still usually left with a sour taste because he overlooked numerous opportunities for a more thought provoking analysis.
And Goodell epitomizes stupidity over substance. Unless that substance is on the banned list.His writing Epitomizes style over substance
Clearly the NFL lost complete control of this minor issue, as once Mort came out with the fudged figures it was over.. all of the leaks that occured in the first week were strategic, a poor strategy nonetheless planned.
I agree, and I think it's worth quoting the rest of the paragraph:
Charlie Pierce is a really good writer. Personally I'm not fond of the "unscrewable pooch" stuff but outside of that I think the article is very well written.