Goodell needs to be fired

[Paa Langfart]

Where the hell has Goodell and the NFL been for the past week?  Its like they crawled into a hole and pulled a lid over themselves.  Complete lack of leadership.  Goodell needs to be terminated.

[psyburn21]

He'll only be terminated if it starts costing the NFL ad sponsors and not before.

[Mr. Scot]

He'll only be terminated if it starts costing the NFL ad sponsors and not before.

Budweiser has expressed dissatisfaction with the NFL's current image problems.

Rumblings that Pepsico isn't happy either.

[Marguide]

He has totally fuged this situation up start to finish (well, I guess there is no finish yet).

 

The person most responsible for the current frenzy is none other than Goodell, and he needs to go.

[coralreefer_1]

Where the hell has Goodell and the NFL been for the past week?  Its like they crawled into a hole and pulled a lid over themselves.  Complete lack of leadership.  Goodell needs to be terminated.

 

Wouldnt that mean in the situation you seem to want, the NFL would have decided weeks ago to suspend Hardy?

 

He was CONVICTED. Sure, its all bullshit and yes..he is appealing...but in the land of heavyhanded "leadership" you seem to be asking for, Hardy would not have even been at camp.

[biglebowski]

I find it odd that people look to the NFL like they are some kind of government institution. Like Goodell is an elected official. Society is getting to be a little fuged up when we look to the entertainment industry for a moral compass.

[Mr. Scot]

He has totally fuged this situation up start to finish (well, I guess there is no finish yet).

The person most responsible for the current frenzy is none other than Goodell, and he needs to go.

I'd agree.

For the record, I'm not a Goodell hater. But I think the damage done by his handling of these situations is just too great, and irrevocable without someone major falling on their sword.

[lindseyj14]

I'm not a fan of Goodell but I don't think this crap is all on him. He's just the only guy who's in the public eye. He gets paid the big bucks to take these bullets. It's kinda like the US President. He gets all the hate and blame, but in reality he's just a public figure who has very little power.

[TylerDurden]

That's been my issue with all of this... Goodell has long been a problem for his judge, jury, executioner approach. But, his handling of this has been an absolute failure of leadership at the least and possibly a botched coverup at worst (which I'm leaning towards).

Goodell fuged up and then LIED about it. That was the big story to start the week. Then we have idiots like Robert "Thanks For Turning Your Head On Spygate" Kraft, the Maras, and our own JR sending out their support for Goodell. It feels like we were on the verge of Goodell having to step down because it was clear he lied and tried to coverup his complete indifference in the handling of the Rice case. Then the AP story breaks and Goodell disappears. It's the best thing that could happen for him in regards to keeping his job.

[Marguide]

I'd agree.

For the record, I'm not a Goodell hater. But I think the damage done by his handling of these situations is just too great, and irrevocable without someone major falling on their sword.

 

I'm not a hater either. But here we are, hardcore football fans, people who follow what goes on in the league very closely, and none of us really have a clue what the league is doing. What is the position going forward? What is the strategy of pending cases? How do you justify sitting some players for up to a year for marijuana, and yet give out a 2 game suspension for someone that knocked out his fiance.

 

And then to top it off, to not intervene with the Vikings when they made the incredibly boneheaded decision this week that AP would be re-activated, that is just mind boggling to me.

 

I don't know of any CEO of any respectable company that could survive after doing what Goodell has done (or failed to do).

[Khaki Lackey]

The person most responsible for the current frenzy is none other than Goodell

...and maybe the players that are beating their wives and children?

[beastson]

I'm not a fan of Goodell but I don't think this crap is all on him. He's just the only guy who's in the public eye. He gets paid the big bucks to take these bullets. It's kinda like the US President. He gets all the hate and blame, but in reality he's just a public figure who has very little power.

 

Since he's came in the league, he came in with change on his mind. Instead of minding his business and keeping the NFL away from things as it should be, he decided to intervene. So now when players say and do stupid things, it falls on him. You have the judicial system and team policy in place, that's enough 

[Mr. Scot]

I'm not a hater either. But here we are, hardcore football fans, people who follow what goes on in the league very closely, and none of us really have a clue what the league is doing. What is the position going forward? What is the strategy of pending cases? How do you justify sitting some players for up to a year for marijuana, and yet give out a 2 game suspension for someone that knocked out his fiance.

 

And then to top it off, to not intervene with the Vikings when they made the incredibly boneheaded decision this week that AP would be re-activated, that is just mind boggling to me.

 

I don't know of any CEO of any respectable company that could survive after doing what Goodell has done (or failed to do).

 

There's an additional element for me.

 

A fair number of former players, and even some current players, have gone on record ripping Goodell over this.  The general statement is something like "oh yeah, you told me 'no excuses' when I was in trouble, but now look at you" or some such.

 

How can he be taken seriously as the arbiter of discipline after all this?

 

And although it's farther off, I think if you're the NFL you have to ponder what it'll be like the next time a new CBA deal is up.  Do you want to go into those negotiations with a weakened commissioner?

 

I don't think he can be saved.  And if you do keep him, at what cost to your product?

[TylerDurden]

I'm not a hater either. But here we are, hardcore football fans, people who follow what goes on in the league very closely, and none of us really have a clue what the league is doing. What is the position going forward? What is the strategy of pending cases? How do you justify sitting some players for up to a year for marijuana, and yet give out a 2 game suspension for someone that knocked out his fiance.

And then to top it off, to not intervene with the Vikings when they made the incredibly boneheaded decision this week that AP would be re-activated, that is just mind boggling to me.

I don't know of any CEO of any respectable company that could survive after doing what Goodell has done (or failed to do).

They're actually saying the NFL was in contact with the Vikings leading up to their decision to backtrack on their AP stance.

So, basically, regardless of how you look at it, the league pulled the strings on this move as well to try and save themselves from losing sponsors... making the decision at 1 am wasn't an accident either. It just follows in line with how the Rice case was handled and Goodell is just laying low hoping to lessen the damage done in the meantime, hoping it blows over and he can hold his position for as long as possible.