NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell — apparently busy not suspending players like Marshawn Lynch for leaving the scene of an accident and refusing to talk about it for weeks — has inserted himself so far into the Packer-Brett Favre controversy that he is now telling the Packers how to characterize their quarterback battles. According to this item from Tom Silverstein, Goodell “urged” the Packers to characterize their quarterback situation as an “open competition.”
How is that his job? First, Goodell instructs the Packers to “accelerate” their efforts to find a suitable trade for Favre — a move that effectively announces to the other 31 teams in the NFL that the Packers would be holding a quarterback fire sale. Now he’s telling them how to talk about their quarterback competition?
What if the Packers have decided, for whatever reason, that Aaron Rodgers will be their starter? Does Goodell want the Packers to lie? Is he encouraging them to misrepresent what they’re doing in the media?
Goodell should go back to his crackdown on NFL thuggery — which will reportedly include the reinstatement of Pacman Jones on September 1 — and let the Packers run the Packers.
August 5, 2008 at 1:01 pm
Cook has been pushing Goodell’s button since the beginning. GB has no powerful individual owner to put him in his place. Goodell has figured out he has as much authority in running the Packers as Thompson and Murphy in this matter. I guess we’re beginning to see public ownership of the team may not be an advantage.
If Thompson had a pair he’d call a Press Conference and tell Goodell to SHUT UP. He doesn’t and he woun’t.
Does his inaction on thuggery in the league mean we get Jolly for the season?
August 5, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Ok packergeeks, enough blogging. Now get back to work.
August 5, 2008 at 2:48 pm
He should get back to his essential work of deleting video tapes, taking down videos off YouTube, screwing old NFL vets out of benefits, and suspending black players.
August 5, 2008 at 4:05 pm
That post from Goodell was hilarious.
August 5, 2008 at 4:54 pm
Goodell’s been coming off like amateur hour throughout this whole thing. In his position, you stay out until you absolutely have to intervene and when you intervene, you make an absolute, final decision and impose it unilaterally. He doesn’t have the standing to make that kind of move here, and apparently insufficient experience or perceptiveness to realize that fact. Yet another casualty of the Thompson-Favre Ass-Clown-O-Rama 2008.