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I won't argue any of the posted information above Andy...but I WILL ask the question..if "Goodell punished for the perception, and given his job description probably had to. "..then why did he only "punish" Rex Ryan for repeated violations of league rules in the most lenient way possible?
The public profanities, the embarrassing sexual deviance, the orchestrated sideline tripping...on and on. A wrist slap every time. The Patriots organization gets robbed of a fundamental team building block because Goodell HAD TO?
As a former Jet employee he should have had an independent arbitrator decide BB's fate. Goodell just deferred to an independent arbitrator in the Dolphins/Incognito case. There has always been more to this issue than any of us have been privy to.
I'm not really arguing it from whether Goodell acted correctly or not, just from the perspective that what actually happened (and particularly the cries that BB should have gone public) didn't really mattered, because from the outset it was publicly perceived as cheating and the league (whether Goodell or someone else) had to deal with the perception becuase that was what it needed to protect itself against.
As far as Rex Ryan, I think that the perception of the league is harmed an awful lot less by the public perception that coaches use bad language (which actually is accepted almost everywhere in America today by anyone under 70 years old) than the perception that its games are not fair.
The sexual deviance is a funny story but there is no real smoking gun such a a Rex starring porno film. Hard to punish an employee on conjecture.