Quote:Your entire charade against Goodell is done without using your brain. He does NOTHING except what the owners agree should be done. This has been explained in every Goodell hate thread, but it always seems to slip past your little hamster on the wheel. I bet if you let him pick up some momentum you could understand it.

 

While I agree that the final product is him being a mouthpiece for the consensus of the other 32 owners, we do not know to what extent that he has (or hasn't) been in spearheading these "new ideas". Under Tags (Tagliabue) were didn't seem to have as much short-sighted change or change for change's sake and shameless money grabs like some of these "new" ideas are guises for.  I think some of that is the new guard of owner like Synder, Jones, Irsays kid, etc etc, but I do think some of it indeed stems from Goodell. I don't think he's just 100% a string puppet. We've lost a lot of the old Guard's "League-think". Pete Rozelle was part of that too.  

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