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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501
Goodell owns implementation. He botched enforcement of personal conduct and his system for deciding penalties for personal fouls is a laughing stock. He almost failed to secure radio city music Hall for the draft. He completely mucked up the lockout negotiation. He has put on as bad of a crisis management plan as you will ever see following the ray rice incident which includes cover up and months of silence around the issue. His only solution for solving problems is punishing players, and within that system, the enforcement is wildly inconsistent and has been accused of showing favoritism. In issues dealing with strong players Union positions, he almost always seems to get fleeced.
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I'll do it for Cosmo, since he is too busy bowing to the altar of Goodell.
Personal conduct. Overreached on Bountygate and handed out unprecedented fines and suspensions including in cases where there wasn't much evidence. Swiftly came to a decision and investigated the living hell out of it. Ray Rice and Big Ben -- decides to provide a light suspension in one case, then a reduced suspension in the second case. In Ray Rice incident, either he covered it up or chose not to get even basic evidence that shed perfect light on what happened. Spygate, unlike Bountygate, decides to let the Patriots off with almost no penalty then orders destruction of the evidence rather than let anyone know what was actually done. PEDs, DUIs -- continues to use a ridiculously arbitrary method for deciding level of punishment, penalty, fine. Donald Stephenson gets 4 games, but Wes Welker is allowed to cut his in half. Interesting. Almost didn't book Radio City Music Hall for the draft.
As a PR guy, he botched the referee lockout thinking nobody would notice how bad the replacement refs were creating more leverage for the referees. He tries to play the PR game to gain favorability and takes it to court in the players lockout -- loses repeatedly, presides over the longest lockout in NFL history, and blemishes the NFL brand. Following the Ray Rice incident, went months in silence then weeks in silence after the thing blew up, only to walk to the podium with a list of non-answers.
Should I go on?
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Under his watch, personal conduct and the concussion issue have blown up into full blown crises. The NFL alumni group has fleeced Goodell on the issue of player safety. In both cases, his ideas for solving have been very below average and shown no creativity whatsoever. And for any football purist, almost every move he has made has worsened the game usually because he wanted to make more money.
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Has tinkered with the idea of getting rid of extra points purely to speed up the game. Has overseen a rules committee that seems to consistently make up rules that will contribute to profitability. But okay... while he should show leadership to avoid shit like that, that's a situation where maybe other forces are at play.
What Goodell owns is the ridiculous overenforcement of TD celebrations. Personal conduct penalty system. These are things that don't make any money for the league and I would bet a new commissioner could and would overhaul these with minimal pushback from the owners.