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After another really bad day for Goodell and the League, do anyone still buy the silly BS storyline that the 31 other owners are on board with how Goodell is handling this and are more behind him than ever? Do people still believe the storyline that if Goodell loses in court and Judge Berman reverses the 4 game suspension all he has to do is say "I tried and the judge overturned me" and he will be getting high fives from the owners?
Over the last two weeks, the tide has turned (not as some here would like to think though) and this whole situation has gone from a question of whether Brady is guilty or not and how he should be punished to whether the NFL has a kangaroo court and whether Goodell is just power mad. I still don't know if national dialog has really changed on Brady's guilt or innocence, but the spotlight is now shining on Goodell and his process and Brady has become actually become a supporting cast in this drama.
In the last two weeks, we have found that Goodell lied about Brady's testimony, the League tried to bury the appeal transcript, a Federal judge ripped apart the Wells report and whether there is a shred of evidence against Brady, senior members of the NFL executive staff came off looking like absolute idiots at the appeal including Goodell, Goodell gets killed in the media for not answering the question of why they didn't correst the Mortensen report of 2 PSI, and Ted Wells gets sued for defamation. I can't see the owners being happy about this even if they want Brady and the Pats to pay.
Just like everything Goodell touches, every controversy turns into a case where everyone loses and look bad. This is something that should have been done in a week or two. It has dragged on for seven months and no one has been immune from being dragged through the mud including Goodell and Ted Wells. I can't remember who said it, but he said that Goodell's job is to diffuse controversy, not create it. Goodell has successfully turned an equipment violation into the Black Sox scandal where no one is safe from being looked bad.
Over the last two weeks, the tide has turned (not as some here would like to think though) and this whole situation has gone from a question of whether Brady is guilty or not and how he should be punished to whether the NFL has a kangaroo court and whether Goodell is just power mad. I still don't know if national dialog has really changed on Brady's guilt or innocence, but the spotlight is now shining on Goodell and his process and Brady has become actually become a supporting cast in this drama.
In the last two weeks, we have found that Goodell lied about Brady's testimony, the League tried to bury the appeal transcript, a Federal judge ripped apart the Wells report and whether there is a shred of evidence against Brady, senior members of the NFL executive staff came off looking like absolute idiots at the appeal including Goodell, Goodell gets killed in the media for not answering the question of why they didn't correst the Mortensen report of 2 PSI, and Ted Wells gets sued for defamation. I can't see the owners being happy about this even if they want Brady and the Pats to pay.
Just like everything Goodell touches, every controversy turns into a case where everyone loses and look bad. This is something that should have been done in a week or two. It has dragged on for seven months and no one has been immune from being dragged through the mud including Goodell and Ted Wells. I can't remember who said it, but he said that Goodell's job is to diffuse controversy, not create it. Goodell has successfully turned an equipment violation into the Black Sox scandal where no one is safe from being looked bad.
