OT: Potential Goodell Coup d'état?

RobertWeathers · Sep 11, 2015

Florio is slinging crap out there but wow! PLEASE BE TRUE!

Florio suggested that the NFL leaks might be related to individuals in the league offices looking toward a future without Roger Goodell.

“You just have to wonder what’s really going on behind the curtain,” Florio said. “And I know somebody who understands the dynamics of the league office [who] is convinced that there were league office sources who were feeding ESPN information with two agendas — to retaliate against the Patriots and to set Roger Goodell up for eventually being thrown out of office, because there are people who have their eyes on that job or eyes on the potential for advancing to a higher job under a different commissioner. That’s where this thing gets really bizarre. Is there a coup in the works? I don’t know. But a lot of nervous people at the league office, a lot of people putting potential plans into motion aimed at advancing their own interests or protecting themselves.”

http://itiswhatitis.weei.com/sports...-on-dc-possible-coup-in-works-at-nfl-offices/

SHOWTIME15 · Sep 11, 2015

if there were a coup I would imagine jeff pash has a lot to do with it and everything that happened this summer. maybe he wants to be commissioner.

borg · Sep 11, 2015

Goodell is Terry Donovan, Ray's brother.....sitting in the middle of an empty boxing ring, in the dark, with a gun in his shaky hand.....firing bullets at shadows he thinks are threats

RobertWeathers · Sep 11, 2015

Gregg Levy was runner -up back in 06 but not sure what owners think of him after this whole mess.

Galeb · Sep 11, 2015

TommyBrady12 said:
if there were a coup I would imagine jeff pash has a lot to do with it and everything that happened this summer. maybe he wants to be commissioner.

He was a major candidate when Goodell was elected.

Fencer · Sep 11, 2015

TommyBrady12 said:
if there were a coup I would imagine jeff pash has a lot to do with it and everything that happened this summer. maybe he wants to be commissioner.

I've been suggesting that Goodell and/or the new COO will push Pash out. Florio is suggesting the opposite.

I hope there's a power struggle between (the recently demoted) Pash and Goodell. At a minimum, one will then go. Occasionally, these things end with double deaths.

Fencer · Sep 11, 2015

Too bad that Florio is still referring to Spygate as cheating over a period of time. That's not very accurate.

NashuaPats · Sep 11, 2015

A bit off topic but in the article, Florio said that he is suspicious of the texts between Jastremski and McNally and that the NFL failed to get to the bottom of it. Here's the thing about that though, the two of them were interviewed, I think, 7 times combined. Wells interrogated them for over 12 hours combined, yet there is hardly anything from these interviews in the report except for McNally calling a toilet a urinal. It is extremely suspicious for Wells and Pash to put hardly anything they said in those 12+ hours in their report when these guys are at the center of the investigation and then deny the NFLPA access to the notes from their interviews. Perhaps, if we knew what they said in the interviews, Florio would have the answers he is looking for. I've said it before and I'm saying it again, what's not in the report is as, if not more, telling than what is in it.

cmasspatsfan · Sep 11, 2015

Pash night be worse than goody

Bella*chick · Sep 11, 2015

Gee,, the front office sounds like such a fun and competent place to work.

Kdo5 · Sep 11, 2015

Frighteningly some of those allegedly trying to push Goodell out might be worse than him. Makes me shudder. They are all out to get the Pats.

DarrylS · Sep 11, 2015

Bella*chick said:
Gee,, the front office sounds like such a fun and competent place to work.

"Front office gate" inquiring minds want to know..

Galeb · Sep 11, 2015

Considering how bad Goodell keeps blundering, I wonder if someone has serious dirt on him and is blackmailing him. Reminiscent of Elaida from the WOT series.

Soul_Survivor88 · Sep 11, 2015

People who have it in for the Patriots want Goodell's job? Why? So they can do even more harm to the team?

This is the kind of stuff that would make me feel very uncertain about the future of my team. If Kraft still buys into the "good of the 32" crap, then he must really have his head up his ass. He's done a terrible job of defending his team.

YOUGOTMOSSED · Sep 11, 2015

I can't express how much I hate this "House of Cards"/"Game of Thrones" bullsh*t with the NFL office. I don't really care which incompetent, pin headed, trust fund baby scores that sweet prize of being the next NFL Commissioner (clearly, the most over-compensated position in the history of mankind). But I do care if these petty power struggles spill over onto the field and effect the outcome of games.

PatsFanSince74 · Sep 11, 2015

Whenever someone is making $40--50 million a year, there are going to be people who either want his/her job or who think they should be making more money than they are making because the other guy/gal is making so much.

CEO's of all stripes are the loneliest people in the world, even those make a tenth of what Rodger makes, because there is always somebody who wants to take their job away. There are very few people they can trust in their organizations. That's why they have parachutes and buy outs written into their contracts.

So, could someone be plotting a coup of some sort against Rodger Goodell? The bigger story would be if someone wasn't plotting against him.

BradyFTW! · Sep 11, 2015

Kinda counterintuitive, because if Goodell was to get pushed out due to organizational incompetence, you'd think that the guys below him would be gone as well. What's the point of cleaning house at all if its just going to be yet another half measure?

I get that nobody ever accused these guys of knowing wtf they're doing, but some of the owners do, at least.

Mack Herron · Sep 11, 2015

Secret conspiracies from anonymous sources? Why isn't this on ESPN?

OT: Potential Goodell Coup d'état?

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