Mark Cuban: Roger Goodell handled Deflategate 'masterfully'

One-Be-Lo said:

Does he really have a 100M termination clause?? That's just disgusting... wtf are these owners thinking?

Like I've said in the past, this league does not need a commissioner anymore - they need an outside firm to handle punishments, the owners can handle TV deals (obviously) and they can bring in old NFL greats on Draft day to give out hugs. Goodell is not necessary in the slightest.

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I've heard it's actually $150M for early termination but I can't verify this anywhere.

I love Cuban, so I'm disappointed to hear this. My guess is, like 99% of the population including most NFL owners, he read only the headlines and not the fine print.

One-Be-Lo said:

Mark Cuban: Roger Goodell handled Deflategate 'masterfully'

"As an owner, it was obvious to me that it was up to Roger Goodell to take the heat and take responsibility," Cuban told reporters at TD Garden before Wednesday's game. "And he handled in masterfully. The fact that it all got reversed and all that is irrelevant. The NFL always loses their court cases the first time. Always. And then they end up winning when it doesn't matter, but you can't — I don't know if (Tom) Brady lied or not, who knows, with the whole phone thing and everything — but the reality is it's all about the good of the game and that's what Roger's responsible for and that's what the owners pay him so much money to do. And he's going to do to the best of his ability what he thinks he can, and I think that's what he did. It's not about Brady, it's not about anything else. It's, 'How do you manage the golden goose?' That's what he's trying to do. I give him credit for taking all of the bullets."

Later in the interview, Cuban was asked if Goodell has too much power.

"No," Cuban said. "Nope. He's got 32 bosses. It's hard to have too much power when you have 32 bosses. Trust me. I mean, I don't know the NFL and I'm just guessing, but he ain't doing s--t without getting feedback from all the owners."



What a db.

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I used to think highly of Cuban because I thought he was a really bright businessman, lately I have come to realize it is more likely he was in the right place at the right time during the technology boom and he prioritizes being a celebrity more than anything.

who gives a f*ck what he thinks.........he doesn't matter

Perhaps because the NBA has a bright, fair-thinking, well-respected commissioner, Cuban just assumed every league has one. Wrong...

This from a guy who has always gotten along with his commissioner

What an attention grabbing whore..

My guess is Cuban:

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Unfortunately Cuban has a large audience and likes to talk about a lot of things, some of which he knows little about -- such as this case.

Just another self-promoting assclown with money that somehow thinks their opinion is worth anything.

I am trying to equate this quote with his earlier rants about Go-to-hell being so f-ed up that he was going to kill the golden goose. I come down with one of the following two options (because I dont beliefe for a sec that he thinks TB is guilty or Even was a crime):

One-Be-Lo said:

Mark Cuban:
" but the reality is it's all about the good of the game and that's what Roger's responsible for and that's what the owners pay him so much money to do.

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How convenient to leave their reason(s) for doing things in an abstraction (i.e. an unending thought).

What does he mean by the "good of the game?" Whose good? The owners? The fans? The players? Is "the good of the game" all about the owners? Methinks this is implied (i.e. "that's what the owners pay him so much money to do"). Of course, we can also say that the fans really pay Goodell, as the owners get their money- if the game is any good -from the fans. Oh, and who cares about the players- as human beings -as they are just commodities, right?

In my opinion, this is just another example of people like Cuban flaunting their egotism in a way that is degrading to the rest.

One-Be-Lo said:

"The fact that it all got reversed and all that is irrelevant. The NFL always loses their court cases the first time. Always. And then they end up winning when it doesn't matter"

I love this logic.. Losing in court is irrelevant but winning when it "doesn't matter" is somehow.. relevant?

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Ya that quote stood out to me too. What does it even mean?? When has the NFL ever actually won in court and how did that "not matter"??

The First Law Of Azzoles...

I'm a rich jerkoff therefore I'm an automatic genius and my opinions on anything are irrefutable!

maybe cuban thinks goodell did such a good job because he's comparing it to his own commissioner (stern) who got caught with his hand in the cookie jar fixing games with the refs (donaghey et al) and the lottery though stern didn't get as much blow back from that as he should have. i'm sure cuban's just trying to stay on the "31 and commishes" good side.

Goodell handled it masterfully? Right about now the guys responsible for Chernobyl and the Exxon Valdez are toasting one another as they are no longer responsible for the world's biggest **** ups.

Cuban wants to own an nfl team one day, he's kissing ass early

Billionaires, corporate leaders, political party central power, ideological movements, increasingly college campuses.

Sometimes, maybe too often, these are examples of echo chambers/insulated bubbles where differing opinions and even common sense fade and even get completely lost.

Dissent spoken is good even when you are right. Dissent helps reinforce which is right and alter the trajectory of what is incorrect. But when you occupy an echo chamber -- meaning there is no dissent -- what you think is right is not challenged, it does not evolve, it is skewed. Ultimately it makes them adamant in their positions/statements -- positions that haven't had to withstand the test of dissent.

Cuban is a guy who speaks his mind and I do like that about him. However, this statement by him is so clearly an example of something born of that no dissent echo chamber that a billionaire lives in. Hey Marc, replace the yes men around you with some dissenting opinion. You'll be the better for it,,,,


Edit: Meatface makes a good point worth consideration. Cuban wants to be in the biggest of the big leagues, the NFL. This is his sales job to help the cause.
(see what hearing dissenting/differing opinions can do )

Cuban wants Goodell to stay commissioner. He regards the NFL as competition, and Goodell makes the competition weaker. Anything he says about the league should be taken with that in mind.

More importantly, just by hearing what he's had to say in the aftermath of the whole DeAndre Jordan fiasco, it's clear that he's a petulant, butthurt crybaby of the highest order. Even if his approval of Goodell is genuine, he is the sort of guy who would like a commissioner like that.

Ice_Ice_Brady said:

I love Cuban, so I'm disappointed to hear this. My guess is, like 99% of the population including most NFL owners, he read only the headlines and not the fine print.

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I sort of liked Cuban so it was a disappointment when he turned out to be a misinformed ******* spouting crap he likely hasn't brushed up on.

People seem to have forgotten or didn't notice a few months ago when he said that Brady got off easily and he should have been suspended 8 games. Totally lost any respect I might have had for him after that stupidity.

Hell there is a number of deflate gate truthers out there and even plenty of them aren't extremist enough to think Brady deserved half a season suspension. Screw Cuban.

Kdo5 said:

I sort of liked Cuban so it was a disappointment when he turned out to be a misinformed ******* spouting crap he likely hasn't brushed up on enough.

People seem to have forgotten or didn't notice a few months ago when he said that Brady got off easily and he should have been suspended 8 games. Totally lost any respect I might have had for him after that stupidity.

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Yes, I recalled that also so this latest BS was no surprise.

No doubt Cuban would have had similar praise for Joseph Goebbels in the mid thirties. Masterful indeed, especially if truth and fairness can be hidden from the equation, and absolute control maintained. And sadly, that is exactly where we are.

Almost every owner, in every sport, is supportive of a despotic figurehead as president or commissioner of their collective franchises. Of course the exercise of that absolute power does not include them, just their hired minions, the media, and the conditioning of the consuming masses. If the law can be marginalized, trivialized and ignored so much the better. Similarly with logic, science and common sense - their profit, growth and invulnerability is paramount.

The current commissioner is the chosen despot. He is not required to be articulate, wise, or competent (he gets an D- in each), yet he can be dishonest, mendacious, inconsistent and fickle, just as long at the owners' privileged domains remain undisturbed.

Kraft gets a lot of flack for caving into the commissioner, but it is more likely that his voice was drowned out by 31 owners with a similar perspective to that of Cuban. However he too wants that despot in position to ensure the players and the NFLPA are in check, costs are kept down, and the business footprint grows ever wider. Hence the hugs and awkward embraces.