Giants owner defends Goodell takes shot at Patriots

[WoodysGirl]

@BartHubbuch: EXCLUSIVE: John Mara comes out swinging for Goodell, says Patriots had no case and predicts Tom Brady ban will stand. http://t.co/oJhT0J2zwO

 

[visionary]

I dislike 0.000001% less than I did before these comments

 

[DallasEast]

This is incredible and unprecedented. According to his critics, no owner speaks out publicly except for Jerry Jones.

Of course I'm kidding. Other owners flap their gums to the media too. Just wanted to point out another instance contradicting that 20-year myth again.

Mara's feeling full of himself the last couple of years. I wonder if he understands the concept of karma?

 

[Yakuza Rich]

Mara was born on third and thought he hit a triple. But, I'm glad somebody wasn't afraid to put Kraft in his place and is just sick of the Patriots' cheating.





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[Idgit]

“[Goodell is] expected to make very tough decisions,” Mara said. “Unfortunately, we’ve had a lot of cases in recent years where he’s been put on the spot, but that’s the job he was hired to do. And I think most of believe that he’s doing a good job.”

He's expected to make good decisions, not tough ones. And instead, he's made a bunch of bad decisions.

It's hurting the league. If most of the owners thing he's doing a good job--and I can't see how they could--they're thinking with their wallets and not their brains. The league has taken a beating in the last 18 months, and the things that have generated the bad PR aren't any more significant than the rash of things that always happens with a league of 2000 young men who get paid an awful lot of money to be aggressive. It's the cover up of the Rice video, the bizarre handling of the AD and Hardy suspensions with pay, the slow-walking of the deflategate scandal that affected the NFL champion and the completely arbitrary way in which suspensions are handed out with an eye to having them reduced alter by a court ruling that has made what should have been a series of straightforward decisions into an embarrassing clown act that undermines the credibility of the league. Mara's running interference for his buddy, but even he can't believe what he's saying here.

 

[LandryFan]

He's expected to make good decisions, not tough ones. And instead, he's made a bunch of bad decisions.

It's hurting the league. If most of the owners thing he's doing a good job--and I can't see how they could--they're thinking with their wallets and not their brains. The league has taken a beating in the last 18 months, and the things that have generated the bad PR aren't any more significant than the rash of things that always happens with a league of 2000 young men who get paid an awful lot of money to be aggressive. It's the cover up of the Rice video, the bizarre handling of the AD and Hardy suspensions with pay, the slow-walking of the deflategate scandal that affected the NFL champion and the completely arbitrary way in which suspensions are handed out with an eye to having them reduced alter by a court ruling that has made what should have been a series of straightforward decisions into an embarrassing clown act that undermines the credibility of the league. Mara's running interference for his buddy, but even he can't believe what he's saying here.

I'm sure Goodell is in good favor with most owners because of the revenue growth the league has experienced since he took over. But like you said, I find it hard to believe they're happy with the negative PR he's generated from the discipline angle. I don't know why Goodell/the league is so hell-bent on being "Judge, jury and executioner" in these cases, but he needs to somehow distance himself from that role...for everyone's good.