10-18-2017, 09:07 PM
(10-18-2017, 04:09 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: 1. People did not hate Paul Tagliabue like they do Goodell. If you want to blame social media or the internet, then I would respond by saying that people don't hate Rob Manfred or Adam Silver. It's a Goodell thing, and a Goodell thing only. People have legitimate gripes with the man.
2. Specifically, rule changes being far more frequent and drastic under his watch, the witch hunts for New Orleans, Brady, Burfict, etc, how he handled the Ray Rice situation, how he handled Josh Brown, his inconsistencies in player discipline...which seem completely arbitrary, and clown show stuff like this:
Are just some of the long list of reasons people hate Goodell. Sure, he's just "doing his job", but for some reason he runs things in a much more controversial manner than his predecessor.
1. Manfred and Silver aren't doing as well. Baseball is on the decline as a whole. People just don't care as much. NBA is all about the players so the owners/Commish have no real power. The power dynamic is insane.
2. He'd be much better off to just basically ignore it like NBA does/did? MLB? Rule changes...Silver and Manfred won't win any rule changes awards either. And MOST of the rules are good changes aimed for player safety or improving the game. Moving the FG back? Good. Moving touchbacks up? Good. The what is a catch BS is not his fault and there's no way to handle it well.
You can't list how he handled Ray Rice when dudes were literally getting off of murder charges under Tagliabue and still playing and then "wonder" if social media may or may not have played a role. Come on.
