moreso... this would be evidence of no control over the organization (NFL) which would lead one to conclude he is incompetent to hold his position
Not gonna lie I'm hoping Goodell gets fired. Dude only cares about one thing, money, not the game, not the players.
1. 2 games 2. Sorry, we meant 6 games 3. Sorry we meant out of the league for life for first offense. Ray McDonald must be crapping his pants.
Goodell should quickly resign...b/c it is getting to be more clear that he is a bold faced liar...He tried using CBS to state his innocence and oblivion to this. In the end, if Roger just banned Rice for a season earlier this year...none of this would have happened. Goodell's inaction to make a stand early has essentially jeopardized his own career. Heck even if they didnt cut Rice and just let his 2 game suspension stand, Goodell may not be getting as much heat as he is now...Instead, he claimed, the NFL knew nothing about this new video, and that he/Ravens acted accordingly. Should be fired, but resigning before this gets any worse might be something the owners have to force upon him.
This is crazy. Goodell didn't hit his wife and he might lose his job? What reason would the NFL have to cover this up? Rice is good but it's not Peyton Manning.
They were trying to save face by saying they hadn't seen the video. Goodell has been reactionary instead of proactive in all of this. He took some heat from the onset of the Rice story because Rice only got 2 games while players like Josh Gordon are getting season long suspensions for 2nd offense mar1juana use, etc. It just did not look good from the beginning that this suspension was so minor. And now that it is clear that the NFL saw the video, Goodell has been exposed for trying to cover up and politic his way out of it. I don't know what their motives were in only giving him a 2 game suspension but it's clear that the motive for the rest of all this has been all about saving face. All of this would have been prevented with a much harsher penalty to begin with.
One plausible theory is that the only reason this entire thing was brushed up under the carpet was because of Jenay, Rice's wife. She may have convinced the Ravens organization and NFL mgmt that this was bad incident, and something they could learn from and move forward with(reason for a scripted PR conference). She may have tried her best to protect Rice from losing a bigger portion of his paycheck by missing more games. This is why the punishment was just 2 games. But then...TMZ got involved...got the images of that elevator and published it. The video was terrible, and made the NFL ruling look like a total joke. This put the NFL, and the Ravens in a terrible light because they did see the video and associated pics. However, now they got the unexpected media outrage, and suddenly everyone was talking about something that happened in February. As an action of pure impulse, the NFL acted quickly knowing an impending PR nightmare was barreling down by cutting/indefinitely suspending Rice. This is may be why Jenay's is pissed and why she responded the way she did...What she and her family essentially addressed in February is now being punished with more dire and significant financial consequences for her: Rice no longer has a job.
This is it. Sets a bad precedence because had the suspension remained 2 games, most wives would do the same.
Not sure where you got your information, but actually the opposite happened. Video evidence (both outside & inside the elevator) shows that Rice spit in Janay's face, twice. He also slapped her inside the elevator (after he spit in her face) before knocking her unconscious from a left hook. Rice was clearly the instigator/aggressor. Janay merely moved towards him in reaction to his assaults. That he inflicted such disturbing (spitting in her face) and violent (closed fist punch) brutality against a defenseless woman is appalling. An NFL RB doesn't need to repeatedly 'beat a woman down' to generate such outrage from society. What we all witnessed on tape is enough to justify our reactions. The NFL's failure to act and denial of seeing said tape only inflames an already incendiary situation: domestic violence against women. In the words of Bill Burr, "there are plenty of reasons to hit a woman, you just DON'T DO IT."
She slapped at him more than slapped him. She was clearly drunk and stumbling.It looks like she was about to spit before being knocked out.
