this is all well and good, but without clarity in either the rules or the punishments, there's no way for this process to not be completely corrupt.
the problem is that the front office wants it's own knobs and levers to assure parity.
The league implemented a hard cap years ago in order to assure parity......teams get good, they win, the players demand more money and some of them wind up somewhere else and there's a flow that should keep thing relatively even (back in the early days of the salary cap, the notion that the league wanted all teams to be 8-8 was quite popular).
The problem is that the one thing that they did to create parity is the one thing that is preventing it today............what the pats have done over 15 years has never happened....even in the pre cap days......so the league is dealing with something that they basically locked themselves out of controlling.....and someone is pissed that the pats level of success simply won't run it's course.
The problem with the league is that they are constantly behind the curve.......creating hysteria for things that happen once while ignoring things that happen all the time......at the same time, they don't want to create clarity in the rules because that takes away their ability to be creative in their own ability to alter outcomes.
Considering the actual basis of this entire issue is a lie (the Mort report of 11/12 being >2lbs under) from the very first moment, as well as all of the garbage produced since then proves only one thing........Roger Goodell lacks the ability to be a commissioner.
The rest of the fans in the NFL love him because he's taking down the team that nobody else can....and that's it......the Jags could be doing this every week in public and nobody would care
