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<blockquote data-quote="morningwood" data-source="post: 447396" data-attributes="member: 2110"><p>Well I don't respect Freeman. I sincerely can't believe the guy can find a job with a newspaper with a circulation of over 15k. In addition to his history of getting fired for resume' fraud, he is an awfull writer. The guy is dumb as hell, extremely biased and childish.</p><p> </p><p>As for Goodell, I think it's incredibly naive and dangerous to assume that alleagtions must be true or they would not have been made, Nonetheless, I don't think the question why would Goodell make all of this up out of whole cloth. I am not suggesting that is what happened.</p><p> </p><p>What I do believe is that Goodell has grossly mischaracterized what occurred and the strength of his evidence. Now I don't know exactly what his motivation was, but I suspect it was a combination of things. There are a number of factors that could have serve as motivation for that:</p><p> </p><p>With some reports of a pay for performance system Goodell decided to "get ahead"of the story. He did not want to run the risk of the story developing in the press as something more sinister than his investigation showed which could have lead to accusations that he covered up the extent of what occurred.</p><p> </p><p>Goodell decided to put an end to the pay for performance motivation tool that has been fairly widespread throughout the league. In short, he dedided to use the nuclear option on one team. In order to do that, he needed more than the equivalent of helmet stickers for big plays. He needed a systematic pay for injuries system.</p><p> </p><p>It was not enough to just nail Gregg Williams for hyperbole. He wanted to take down the "captain of the ship," hence his use of the e-mail to SP from a close associate pledging $5k on Rodgers. Forget the fact that the e-mail was not sent from Ornstein to Payton or that there is absolutely no reason to believe that anyone took Ornstein's e-mail seriously -- Goodell needed that evidence. After all, he reviewed over 50,000 pages of documents, he needed something to report as the result of that search and he needed to tie SP in on this in 2011.</p><p> </p><p>Goodell did not want to face questions that the league failed to stop the program. Remember, the NFL did some form of investigation in early 2010. Apparently the league walked away from that investigation. Easy enough, rather than run the risk of facing questions of a botched investigation in 2010 and a second investigation in 2012, Goodell simply characterizes this as one three year long investigation. This works out great since it also creates the impression that this is a deliberate, thorough investigation similar to what one would expect in an investigation into an organized crime family.</p><p> </p><p>I could go on, but I think I will conclude with this overeaching by Goodell is the very type of thing you can expect when someone has too much power. With no one to second guess him, it is possible that he is, to some degree, a vicim of his own tyrrany.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="morningwood, post: 447396, member: 2110"] Well I don't respect Freeman. I sincerely can't believe the guy can find a job with a newspaper with a circulation of over 15k. In addition to his history of getting fired for resume' fraud, he is an awfull writer. The guy is dumb as hell, extremely biased and childish. As for Goodell, I think it's incredibly naive and dangerous to assume that alleagtions must be true or they would not have been made, Nonetheless, I don't think the question why would Goodell make all of this up out of whole cloth. I am not suggesting that is what happened. What I do believe is that Goodell has grossly mischaracterized what occurred and the strength of his evidence. Now I don't know exactly what his motivation was, but I suspect it was a combination of things. There are a number of factors that could have serve as motivation for that: With some reports of a pay for performance system Goodell decided to "get ahead"of the story. He did not want to run the risk of the story developing in the press as something more sinister than his investigation showed which could have lead to accusations that he covered up the extent of what occurred. Goodell decided to put an end to the pay for performance motivation tool that has been fairly widespread throughout the league. In short, he dedided to use the nuclear option on one team. In order to do that, he needed more than the equivalent of helmet stickers for big plays. He needed a systematic pay for injuries system. It was not enough to just nail Gregg Williams for hyperbole. He wanted to take down the "captain of the ship," hence his use of the e-mail to SP from a close associate pledging $5k on Rodgers. Forget the fact that the e-mail was not sent from Ornstein to Payton or that there is absolutely no reason to believe that anyone took Ornstein's e-mail seriously -- Goodell needed that evidence. After all, he reviewed over 50,000 pages of documents, he needed something to report as the result of that search and he needed to tie SP in on this in 2011. Goodell did not want to face questions that the league failed to stop the program. Remember, the NFL did some form of investigation in early 2010. Apparently the league walked away from that investigation. Easy enough, rather than run the risk of facing questions of a botched investigation in 2010 and a second investigation in 2012, Goodell simply characterizes this as one three year long investigation. This works out great since it also creates the impression that this is a deliberate, thorough investigation similar to what one would expect in an investigation into an organized crime family. I could go on, but I think I will conclude with this overeaching by Goodell is the very type of thing you can expect when someone has too much power. With no one to second guess him, it is possible that he is, to some degree, a vicim of his own tyrrany. [/QUOTE]
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