Goodell got brought in on a hardo mandate – these players are out of control behaviorwise we can’t do anything about it so we need you to do it.  Blank could fire a thousand people a day at Home Depot and funnel in replacements, doesn’t work in professional sports.  Every owner made their deal with it knowing they might get hit on occasion.  Not much different from the players themselves agreeing to give Goodell all the authority in return for a bigger share of revenue.  Sure, a couple of us will get hit, probably won’t be me and I’ll take the chance.

Any commissioner in any pro sport saw what happened to Fay Vincent.  The collusion rulings where he basically called the owners untrustworthy, particularly Selig.  Not a good idea to say anything bad about your bosses.  Made it easy for them to blame him for salaries and whatever else.  The new revenue sharing they had to institute to cover the collusion debt.  Teams getting mad over proposed realignment.   Whatever the owners tell you to do, just do it.  The rest is all PR shit.

Kingasaurus wrote:

Lebron wrote:

Goodell got brought in on a hardo mandate – these players are out of control behaviorwise we can’t do anything about it so we need you to do it.

Fair enough. Now, in a nation of 300 million, could you possibly find a law-and-order hardass who isn’t mentally compromised and inept? That’d be nice.

“Kabeer Gbaia-Biamila, Mother Fucker”

02062 wrote:

I like that he asked for Health Care for life for him and the family. Talk about principled.

This would also be fairly inexpensive if we gave him Roy Halladay’s plane.

“so maybe the league can find a way to finance that project and get a good quality shot of some of those goal line plays, like they had in the Oakland-Kansas City game.” BB

Lefty wrote:

Speaking of douchebags, Mittens Volin says hell0: On an NFL media conference call today, Ben Volin of the Boston Globe asked league spokesman Joe Lockhart if there are any tampering issues surrounding the Patriots and Bennett. Lockhart’s answer was an emphatic, “No.”

Tampering how? In Volin’s little brain, does he think the Patriots reached out to Bennett, told him to say he was going to retire at the end of the season. Then, a week later, to say his shoulder is hurt and he needs to have season ending surgery. He further believes that NE knew Green Bay wouldn’t put him on IR and let him have surgery. Instead, they were sure GB would cut him, 30 other teams would pass on claiming him off waivers and he’d be there for the Patriots to sign.

It’s such an asinine idea to think this was all orchestrated, it would be an upset if Volin didn’t believe it.

If anything what needs investerigating is the Packers claim of an undisclosed injury.  You gave him a physical before you signed him.  He sought multiple opinions outside of the team doc once he said his shoulder hurt, so obviously he disclosed it at some point, unless they’re saying he never went to the team doctor at all?

Lebron wrote:

If anything what needs investerigating is the Packers claim of an undisclosed injury. You gave him a physical before you signed him. He sought multiple opinions outside of the team doc once he said his shoulder hurt, so obviously he disclosed it at some point, unless they’re saying he never went to the team doctor at all?

Bennett says he told them in March.

Either he did or he didn’t.

Kingasaurus wrote:

Lebron wrote:

If anything what needs investerigating is the Packers claim of an undisclosed injury. You gave him a physical before you signed him. He sought multiple opinions outside of the team doc once he said his shoulder hurt, so obviously he disclosed it at some point, unless they’re saying he never went to the team doctor at all?

Bennett says he told them in March. Either he did or he didn’t.

Breer says he knew about Hightower’s partially torn pectoral muscle in the spring and that’s why teams backed off. Even if Bennett didn’t explicitly tell them, the Packers couldn’t figure that out on their own? They were only going to commit to paying him $21 million over the next 3 years, why give him a physical?

Coma wrote:

Kingasaurus wrote:

Lebron wrote:

If anything what needs investerigating is the Packers claim of an undisclosed injury. You gave him a physical before you signed him. He sought multiple opinions outside of the team doc once he said his shoulder hurt, so obviously he disclosed it at some point, unless they’re saying he never went to the team doctor at all?

Bennett says he told them in March. Either he did or he didn’t.

Breer says he knew about Hightower’s partially torn pectoral muscle in the spring and that’s why teams backed off. Even if Bennett didn’t explicitly tell them, the Packers couldn’t figure that out on their own? They were only going to commit to paying him $21 million over the next 3 years, why give him a physical?

I heard on NFL radio the other day that the teams all have access to a common medical database of all players.  (I thought that was odd, too, but some guy who is a retired team doctor was talking about it) so, as he put it, the Packers knew everything the Patriots knew when they signed Bennett.  (I assume that means the Jets knew about Hightower in the same way).   If everyone has access to the same medical and nothing changed after Bennett signed with the Packers, then they need to shut up.

Jason Kyrie can shoot.