This little move stinks to high heaven. No one will ever misplace this guy for some kind of an impactful front office employee.
I still say a big reason why Spygate and Deflategate exist as lies framed to the public and NFL customer, is because Goodell took advantage of a chance to frame, so his punishments wouldn't look so odd.
Belichick couldn't do what Brady is trying to do now because BB is tied to Kraft and the owners, technically.
When BB retires and writes a memoir, I am sure we'll learn about his true feeling regarding the criminal known as Goodell and the corruption on Park Ave.
It all makes sense now: NE is so good, it proves there is no real parity. The N. American market is over-staurated, Thurs night games are terrible, they know have online gambling as an option that the NFL sponsors, and the Jacksonville Jaguars of all teams will have played the most games in London by the time Goodell's new contract is due by 2020.
How can Goodell sell parity, his ONLY selling point to a bunch of investors and soccer fans, if there isn't any.
NE goes to its 6th straight AFC title game, most likely, in 2016. Read it again. 6th straight. That's entering the 1950s Cleveland Browns territory, but there is a salary cap.
So, Belichick's GM genius has essentially bucked the system and made it very difficult to place a team like Jax in London.
Kahn, the owner of Jax, didn't buy the team to invest in a crappy, dead market like that. He bought it to get a better return with bigger money coming out of Europe, as opposed to Jacksonville. That's why they are being showcased there AND they're in the same conference as the Patriots.
Watch Jax this year and beyond. Do not put it past Goodell to instruct the refs to help them out in games in upcoming seasons.
The Pats are being punished unfairly, not only for made up violations, but because Goodel and the owners know a European market, more or less doubles their revenues.