Did Goodell fire a warning missle at Dallas?

[Romo2Dez4six]

IMO Pacman was given a 1 year suspension, well that 1 year is over. He did his part now Goodell needs to do his. He didn't give a whenever I'm ready suspension

 

[jobberone]

I don't know what this is about but I don't see anything different here. If he called a PC to make this statement then ok. I suspect he was asked a question and spit out his standard answer for the subject. He probably set the party line and response for this for everyone to be on the same page.

But I don't like his power. Can't he be fired by the owners? Or is he like a Supreme Court Justice? I think it was necessary for him to clean the league up and he did the right thing. The fines the Pats got were substantial. I suspect a lot of the league was cheating like the Pats. They got caught. Most of that was jealousy IMO. But that doesn't excuse the Pats.

Goodell is doing ok. I just don't like people to be kept from doing their livelihood. For too long a period of time.

 

[tyke1doe]

I've said it before and I'll say it again.

Roger Goodell is trying to institute morals and ethics into a medium where none necessarily have to be there.

Really?

You mean not working racial slurs into smack talk on the field, not talking about players' mamas, drugs are matters of morals and ethics?

There is no rule stating that a player has to be a choir boy to play in the NFL.

This is really a phrase that needs to either be defined or eliminated. No one is saying that NFL players have to be choir boys. But in all professions, there are codes of ethics - even in the porn industry.

Should a player not be as such, his off-the-field actions are to be dealt with by the team, not by a commissioner whose job is merely to regulate the league. The owners have all the say in who plays for their team, not Goodell.

But teams can't act independent of the league. And do you really expect the owners to police themselves? If that were the case, why have a league?

He can enforce league rules, not team rules.

Personal conduct issues have become such an issue that now it's a league matter. That's what happens when things get out of control on a personal level. Personal issues, if left unchecked, become work-place issues and then societal issues.

And because NFL players were getting out of hand in the way they conducted themselves off the field and hurting the image of the league, the league had to take action. And Goodell, despite the opinions from these quarters, has the backing of the owners because the owners know that it's in the best interest of the league to get this situations under control.

What a player does off the field is his business, not Goodell's. Saying that it is Goodell's is stating that the NFL is no longer a place welcome for anyone.

Huh?

You're welcome in the league. But you have to abide by certain standards.

The league is no different than any other situation in life, probably outside of your family. Your family is about the only place where you can do any and everything you want to do bad and still be welcomed. And even then, that has its limits.

With all due respect, your position is unrealistic.

It's saying that this is a league full of professional athletes who know how to stay out of trouble and be upstanding citizens.

If they can't stay out of trouble, maybe they need to stay out of the league.

 

[tyke1doe]

IMO Pacman was given a 1 year suspension, well that 1 year is over. He did his part now Goodell needs to do his. He didn't give a whenever I'm ready suspension

It was a conditional suspension, predicated on the fact that PacMan keeps his nose clean. I don't think Goodell promised that he would be reinstated after a year.

I think many are jumping the gun, assuming that it was a non-conditional one-year suspension.

Goodell didn't let Tank return before he served his full time. I don't see any difference why he would let PacMan return until he served his full time - whatever that was.

 

[Romo2Dez4six]

It was a conditional suspension, predicated on the fact that PacMan keeps his nose clean. I don't think Goodell promised that he would be reinstated after a year.

I think many are jumping the gun, assuming that it was a non-conditional one-year suspension.

Goodell didn't let Tank return before he served his full time. I don't see any difference why he would let PacMan return until he served his full time - whatever that was.

yeah now that I think it was conditional, but didn't he stay clean? I think he will let him workout too.

 

[tyke1doe]

yeah now that I think it was conditional, but didn't he stay clean? I think he will let him workout too.

He did have that run in with the attorney at the strip club. But those charges were dropped. I really don't know what's going on with PacMan or what Goodell thinks. I really can't get worked up over this trade. Maybe I'm just patient.

But I think Goodell will reinstate him.

 

[ThreeSportStar80]

Goodell has to know that the union will get involved eventually...

 

[DallasDomination]

Roger Goodell is a POS little &%^*%*%*$%*$*%*&%^(%*%%*(...Let us all bow down to the lord of all Football..

Take a knife to the back for all I care..


Sorry I just dont like that guy...He is so biased in how he goes ablout things it sickens me and I just get heated

 

[KDWilliams85]

Tyke, I'm not saying that it should be full of choir boys and preachers.

I'm simply saying that if guys are going to do things that aren't regulated by team rules, that Goodell should not get involved. If the players actions affect their on-the-field life, then action should be taken by the team, not a commissioner who is bent on making the league respectable. [knowing full well that his journey into it will be futile]

If you haven't noticed, players like Odell Thurman, Ricky Williams, and Onterrio Smith have been quiet because their suspensions were in violation of the league's rules. Something that Goodell has control over.

Chris Henry and PacMan... their suspensions were because their actions keep them off the field. Sounds to me that Goodell is treading on the owner's toes. The owners know what Goodell wants to do. However, the owners have all the say to keep their intellectual property on the field or off... whichever the owners deem fit. Their actions are within the sphere of the owners control until it violates league rules.

By Goodell's logic, if I were a player in his league... I could get into a bar fight, get arrested, and get suspended. Conversely, a different player can go out, get drunk... repeatedly... and find himself on the wrong end of a bad situation and never have anything done. Want to know why... because as long as it doesn't affect his ability to be on the field, Goodell is perfectly willing to let the consequences be that as they may.

If Goodell just wants to bar and ban people who tarnish the image of the league, there's no point in owners having behavioral consultants working for them. There's no point! The owners should be like, "Oh, I've hired an alcoholic! But as long as he comes to play on Sundays, I don't care!"

There's no freakin' point. Goodell is a hypocrite and the owners are cowards because of him.