Jerry Jones wants Roger Goodell out, and he has a fascinating replacement in mind

[haleyrules]

furthermore other owners only justify sharing money they are invested in a participatory role, not the money jerry deserves for his specific work and cowboy specific. Otherwise, its pure socialism. I'm for sharing tv contract, and certain nfl group stuff, but not money generated purely from cowboys work and success.

Jerry fought and won that fight.

 

[MileyDancer]

I don't think he's powerless, I just don't see his wolfpack as being 24-strong.

Maybe not. Money is a big motivator, though.

 

[Direwolf63]

If he just wants a commissioner to be a puppet for the owners then that's not going to work. It will be worse for the owners if they just get a yes man to all of their needs and not think about the players.

The owners pay the commissioners salary.

It's the commissioners job to be the owners puppet.

 

[ThreeandOut]

I don't think he's powerless, I just don't see his wolfpack as being 24-strong.

I don’t think he needs 24, he only needs 8 to block Goodells extension. After that they would have to find a candidate that 24 owners could agree on. Polian is probably a trial balloon of someone Jerry thinks is respected enough to get 24 votes.

 

[LocimusPrime]

Jerry,

If I was commissioner, the cowboys would win 3-4 lombardis in a row

 

[RS12]

Polian is senile, but he would not be a dictator ala Goodell.

Not to mention likely easily manipulated.

 

[RS12]

I don't think Jerry has the pull Jerry thinks he does.

I guess you werent paying attention when he got the Rams to LA when everybody considered it a long shot. No matter what you think of him (not much as a football guy) he has put a lot of money in a lot of other owners pockets. That trumps just about anything.

 

[RS12]

****ed with wrong owner, RG. This ain't Kraft you dealin' w here kiddo!

You really think Kraft isnt laying in the weeds with a score to settle? I do.

 

[RS12]

Whose considered the greatest commissioner of all time? Rozell?

Rozell was commisioner when payrolls were 7 digits not 9. Not saying he wouldnt do better but he would face a lot of the same problems.

 

[GhostOfPelluer]

I guess you werent paying attention when he got the Rams to LA when everybody considered it a long shot. No matter what you think of him (not much as a football guy) he has put a lot of money in a lot of other owners pockets. That trumps just about anything.

The Rams deal was an easy sell. Of the three owners in the running, who would you trust to turn the second largest market into a cash cow for other owners? There Jerry's volume was needed to come to a common sense conclusion. This isn't the same. I think he has a chance to pull the power play on Goodell because Goodell is a buffoon and there are many reasons for owners not to want him running the league any longer. Goodell has made natural enemies of specific owners throughout his tenure over different issues. But let's not pretend him leaving would be simply because Jerry has all this clout.

 

[GhostOfPelluer]

I don’t think he needs 24, he only needs 8 to block Goodells extension. After that they would have to find a candidate that 24 owners could agree on. Polian is probably a trial balloon of someone Jerry thinks is respected enough to get 24 votes.

Those are good points. I don't see Polian being that universally liked/respected. But blocking the extension shouldn't be hard to do.

 

[Redball Express]

Jerry doesn't want to get rid of Goodell. If he did, he wouldn't have waited until the point in the process when he needed an impossibly high number of owners voting with him. He's just pitching a hissy fit, for the benefit of Dallas fans who are annoyed at the suspension and want to see him fight back (but aren't bright enough to see he's only making a show of fighting back, not doing it for really).

Nor sure what you say is true.

I'm sure Jerrah is going to take things one step at a time.

If Zeke losses his appeal..

there will surely be a lawsuit from Zeke against the NFL.

Jones has to officially detach from it but be supportive at a distance.

Zeke might miss 6 games and some paychecks.

Jerrah has alot more at stake with his businesses with the team, the stadium and his endosement deals.

Jones is shrewd.

Don't underestimate him.

 

[River82]

And it says,

"On the other hand, an extension for Goodell will also require 24 votes, so it seems quite likely Jones has the votes to block a new deal for Goodell if that is the direction he chooses to go in."

I guess, my point was that JJ probably can conjure up the votes needed to impede Goodell from an extention, but I was't exactly sure of the necessary votes needed to do so.

There are 32 bosses, Goodell needs 24 for an extension ... heh heh heh

 

[mardwin]

There are 32 bosses, Goodell needs 24 for an extension ... heh heh heh

Jerry has a close relationship with many of those owners, I wouldn't be surprised if more than half are against Goodell returning as commissioner

 

[GimmeTheBall!]

What you may not know, however, is that according to our sources the debate is no longer about how much money Goodell makes, it’s about Jerry Jones wanting Goodell out altogether, and rather than it being a financial matter, it’s become a very personal vendetta with Jones irate about how Goodell has handled the Ezekiel Elliott domestic abuse allegations and the resulting suspension now making its way through the courts and dominating most of the coverage surrounding Jones’ Cowboys.

Certainly, Goodell is mired in a debilitating losing streak beginning with the Ray Rice and Greg Hardy cases – with Hardy ironically ending up one of Jerry’s boys as well – and extending through Deflategate, NFL relocation to Los Angeles now going very badly for the Chargers – which ironically was driven by Jones, not Goodell — the Elliott case and now the Colin Kaepernick/national anthem crisis.

While we hear that not all of the 16 other owners on the conference call are yet ready to side with Jones in replacing Goodell, all are apparently unhappy with the handling of at least one or more of those issues.

http://www.profootballweekly.com/lists/2017/11/06/177a1b580bd547f998ba4684f344daed/index.xml?page=2

Fiddlesticks. I was hoping it would be Tony Romo.

 

[RS12]

Jerry has a close relationship with many of those owners

Welp we know he has Kroenke's vote and I bet Kraft is still in grudge mode. You think between the three of them they cant conjure up 6 more votes?

 

[big dog cowboy]

There are 32 bosses, Goodell needs 24 for an extension ... heh heh heh

That simply isn't going to happen. It's pretty obvious now.

 

[Kaiser]

Huge difference...Brady was guilty and Elliot isn't

Exactly, there was a lot of evidence that Brady did and none about Zeke. What was Jerry supposed to object to?

 

[Tabascocat]

Way to go out in a limb, buddy!

Yea but I was first to that party before it was a popular notion

 

[TheCount]

Huge difference...Brady was guilty and Elliot isn't

None of this is about innocence vs guilt.