Anonymous NFL Owner: Deflategate Has Been ‘Embarrassing To Our League’

hwc · Aug 21, 2015

vuudu said:
"Robert didn’t have a problem with the process when it was used against other teams."
The quote that makes me believe that Kraft is in a tough spot with the other owners. His public support for the commish in the Ray Rice issue did a lot of damage that will be hard to recover.

I view Robert Kraft exactly the same way as I view the other 31 NFL owners and the people they chose to run the League office.

SVN · Aug 21, 2015

Owner blaming the process /CBA is BS. You can have all the powers but at least be fair about it. That is the problem

reflexblue · Aug 21, 2015

BradyFTW! said:
It should also be noted that under Tagliabue/Upshaw, the league and union enjoyed a more positive, productive relationship than in any other sport. This relationship was a significant driver in making the NFL the juggernaut that it is today, and Tagliabue had all the powers Goodell has. He just had the baseline intelligence to understand that nothing good could come from colossal overreach and acting in bad faith.

Now we apparently have some owners sitting around wondering why their league has all the scandals? It's because the NFL is the only league with a stupid, vindictive, petty, insecure and incompetent commissioner.

Even if we wanted to go the strict interpretation "whatever the CBA says goes" argument, with no regard for common sense or federal law, the CBA states that Goodell can't be commissioner. The commissioner must be someone of unquestioned integrity, and Goodell is anything but that.

Somehow this dumb **** owner got it in his head that "ceding arbitration power to an agent of unquestioned integrity to be fairly executed in accordance with the law" means "ginger hammer can do whatever the hell he wants".

Its becoming clear that the Ginger Hammer was put in place by the 32 to do their collective bidding, hes just fluncky. Un-like the other sports leagues he wasn't elected to run the league with un-biased integrity.

Mack Herron · Aug 21, 2015

SVN said:
Owner blaming the process /CBA is BS. You can have all the powers but at least be fair about it. That is the problem

Yeah I can't find where in the CBA it says the NFL can invent crimes and penalties then lie and manipulate to defend unsupported allegations.

Patstopia · Aug 21, 2015

Why the NFL? Seriously, what other league leaks misinformation on a daily basis? What other league investigates a team on the eve of the years crowning event? What other team digs itself into such a public catastrophe and then cries why me.
Your league has run amok, your employees are ripping your league apart! And your judgment is flawed. You are fat cats singing on a fence, waiting for the moment the fans pitch a shoe at your heads!

Zeus · Aug 21, 2015

Terribly flawed process a administered by idiotic zealot. But that's what everybody agreed to -so too bad?

How about the owners take some responsibility and fix the $40 million per year monster they have created.

BradyFTW! · Aug 21, 2015

reflexblue said:
Its becoming clear that the Ginger Hammer was put in place by the 32 to do their collective bidding, hes just fluncky. Un-like the other sports leagues he wasn't elected to run the league with un-biased integrity.

I think the only way Goodell could lose his job is if he pulled an Adam Silver and actually made an aggressive move against an owner.

Once the owners realized that they too were subject to his warped view of "my authoritah" they'd fire him within the day. They're only fine with it because they know they're untouchable.

chasa · Aug 21, 2015

I don't think its the rules that are unfair, Its the interpretation of the rules, and the abuse of vagueness that has resulted in all of these issues lately.

Goodell showed up, and is trying to be the tough guy sherriff, and that COULD have been fine, the issue is he has been incredibly ****ty as that sherriff, so much so that he has turned the players COMPLETELY against him. instead of begruding mutual respect, Goodell is the equivilent of a sweatshop owner. "Whats that you want some water? that'll be $4. Oh you only make $2 a day? that's a shame."

Goodell has just gotten more and more publically incompetent, and its become even more clear why kraft had to step in to get the work stoppage over, and a new CBA in place. A **** ton of hard work, that has now been **** on, because the next strike is going to be VERY VERY bad for the league. Roger Goodell just signed a death warrent to the CBA agreement that gave the comissioner so much power for DECADES before he showed up.

ROGER GOODELL IS WHY WE CANT HAVE NICE THINGS.

nabwong · Aug 21, 2015

Consider baseball hacking scandal, which is a million Times worse than deflated footballs. No leaks and no media witch hunt over that issue.

PatsWickedPissah · Aug 21, 2015

nabwong said:
Consider baseball hacking scandal, which is a million Times worse than deflated footballs. No leaks and no media witch hunt over that issue.

Just another example of how the press plays favorites.
We see it every day in other venues where bad stuff from the favored is mentioned briefly (we reported it!) then buried, yet we are oblivious until our own ox is gored.

SVN · Aug 21, 2015

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/08/21/why-would-judge-berman-go-over-goodells-head/

The NFL Management Council Executive Committee was directly involved in the negotiations that culminated in the current Collective Bargaining Agreement, which makes the request to involve Mara seem reasonable. Also involved was Packers CEO Mark Murphy, who on Thursday advocated settlement.

“It is not good having it play out in court, and you got the Super Bowl MVP suing the league,” Murphy said, via Daniel Kaplan of SportsBusiness Journal. (Actually, the league sued first, and in avoiding Judge Doty’s Minnesota frying pan may have landed in Judge Berman’s Manhattan fire.) “But the judge, my sense is, is pushing to a settlement. That seems to be a priority. It would be good.”

primetime · Aug 21, 2015

slam said:
Actually 31 franchises, as they let the Jets of all teams police themselves.

Well, as an NFL owner myself (one share!), let me add the caveat that one unique franchise is a nonprofit corporation so its motivations are substantially different than those of franchises with a single owner. If every team was run like the Packers rather than as a cash cow for billionaires it would be a much better league.

BradyFTW! · Aug 21, 2015

SVN said:
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/08/21/why-would-judge-berman-go-over-goodells-head/

That quote from Murphy might be the ultimate "no ****" statement I've heard. Gee guy, thanks for informing us that the judge wants this to end with settlement. I dunno how else we could've deduced that, aside from maybe taking note any of the dozens of times he's explicitly stated that.

Sciz · Aug 21, 2015

It used to be that I immediately knew I could ignore what anybody had to say on this subject as soon as they said the phone was a big deal. In a similar fashion, an owner citing the "process" tells me that he's not nearly as informed as he thinks he is.

ChoWZa · Aug 21, 2015

Really anonymous owner, it took Judge Berman pointing all this out before you finally realized it? Zzz.

Deus Irae · Aug 21, 2015

“We all agreed to this process,” the owner told Bleacher Report. “The union agreed to it, and the owners agreed to it. It’s hypocritical for the union to say they hate the process or for Robert (Kraft) to put up such a fight. Robert didn’t have a problem with the process when it was used against other teams.”

The owner added, however, that it’s undeniable the NFL’s system is flawed to the point where it’s doing damage to the NFL. [/QUOTE]

So, the owner either admits he's a hypocrite, or lets the world know that he wants to see the NFL damaged, since he's agreeing with the union about the process being flawed....

5thRing-Hunt · Aug 21, 2015

"why our league"

Simple. Because the jealousy of one QB's success has upset the entire league. Brady has been winning Super Bowls for 15 years. The owners are pissed They think brady should be ready to retire and he's still going strong. look at the reaction when the pats were 2-2 last year. People in the league and media were hoping and declaring Brady's time was over. I mean take away his rookie year when he went 1-3 passing and 2008 when he only played a few minutes, he is on pace to retire with possibly going to a superbowl 1 out of every 2 years. I know brady is probably mad at all this but a part of him should feel good about the fact that he is so good he has caused grown men and women to react this way to stop him. Part of me thinks if the Giants had made it to the SB last year the NFL wouldn't have done this. They would have incorrectly assumed the Giants would win again. I think they saw SE and thought "We better blow up this story because the pats have a good chance to win this one

VrabelJr · Aug 21, 2015

BleacherReport always gets "anonymous" reports from an NFL owner. It's either not an owner at all or the owner of the San Francisco 49ers.

aluminum seats · Aug 21, 2015

Yes, it would have been better if Kraft realized what Goodell was earlier. But that doesn’t mean he’s obligated to be a fool forever.

A conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, and a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested. Whatever. Point is, Kraft is getting to see this first hand, and his eyes have been opened. Better late than never.

JarOfMayo51 · Aug 21, 2015

How do they not realize it's because Goodell bleeds Jets green, as does EVERY SINGLE EXECUTIVE in the front office on park avenue

Do they just not care? It's a huge conflict of interest to the other AFC East teams, and Goodell has issued 2 historic penalties that were the largest ever to the Patriots since he took over

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