well no **** he's the frontman for the owners......that's all the commish ever is, at least under modern CBA's, but he's ok at being the front man as long as he doesn't try to do too much......not saying he's good, but he's better than a jerry puppet imho (initially i read that jerry wanted the gig.....he's backed off that the passed few days.....coming off pneumonia, just getting back in touch here)
jones isn't going to win this battle.....reading he is one of only 4-5 owners that wants Goodell out.......this may be more about a power struggle between Kraft and Jones than anything else, and in that struggle, I have to lean Kraft.......obviously
Jones is an ego driven loose cannon, leaps before he thinks.......that's not good for most gigs, and that doesn't make the collective (owners) money......slow & steady, even if it goes slightly off course, keeps the $$ coming in.......that's what most owner wants, that's what they'll get
Goodell is the face we love to hate, but all the BS we've dealt with still comes down to the other NFL owners.....and Jones was one of the more powerful owners in the era we got ****ed the hardest.......he's no friend to this organization
I would have loved for Kraft to come out swinging.......but I think he (publicly) did what he needed to do to keep his two ships rolling in the right direction......obviously he wants to make profit, and he wants his team to do well.......he kept both those ships sailing in the right direction through some murky and rough waters; publicly swinging for the fences would have felt good, but would have hurt one of not both of those courses