Pressure Shifts from Goodell to Owners
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Roger Goodell showed that he's serious about his crackdown on cheating.
Actions are louder than words, and particularly louder than memos. So when Goodell followed up his recent memo to the competition committee--outlining his plans for new measures to deter violations of the league's competitive rules--by punishing the San Francisco 49ers Monday for tampering with Chicago Bears linebacker Lance Briggs, he demonstrated that he means serious business on the issue.
Now the pressure is on the owners to give Goodell their full backing on the matter when they gather in Palm Beach, Fla., for the annual league meeting beginning Sunday.
By Cindy Boren |
March 25, 2008; 5:34 PM ET
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Posted by: Anonymous | March 26, 2008 12:58 AM
Goodell can show he can be as serious as he wants to be on this matter, even if he gets the owners backing that won't change much in my opinion unless the NFL does one thing and one thing only on this issue and that is the NFL changes the Cheating as a standard practice and until that is done nothing Goodell does or how serious he says he is to changing the cheating is not gonna matter unless you get to the heart of the problem and until Goodell realizes that anything he does will not matter any shapr or form it's that simple and let's say for argument sake he did change the cheating habits and Belichick is still gonna find ways to cheat what kind of harsh penalties is he gonna enforce on the pats organization for the second time around that would be interesting to see.
Posted by: Anonymous | March 26, 2008 12:59 AM
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Goodell can show he can be as serious as he wants to be on this matter, even if he gets the owners backing that won't change much in my opinion unless the NFL does one thing and one thing only on this issue and that is the NFL changes the Cheating as a standard practice and until that is done nothing Goodell does or how serious he says he is to changing the cheating is not gonna matter unless you get to the heart of the problem and until Goodell realizes that anything he does will not matter any shapr or form it's that simple and let's say for argument sake he did change the cheating habits and Belichick is still gonna find ways to cheat what kind of harsh penalties is he gonna enforce on the pats organization for the second time around that would be interesting to see.