Roger Goodell questions the existence of Tom Brady’s conflict, despite the existence of rules to remedy it

The vast majority of the NFL ecosystem now recognizes that the double roles of Tom Brady as a Fox diffuser and owner of the Raiders minority create a conflict of interest. The small minority of those who believe the opposite include Brady himself – and the man who suspended Brady for four games due to the alleged cheating.

MDS The comments of Commissioner Roger Roger About the Brady Brouhaha earlier during the day. Once I saw what Goodell said, I also had to make scenarios.

According to Alex Sherman from CNBC.com, Goodell was “lively“In his efforts to argue that no conflict of interest from Brady exists.

“Where’s the conflict?” Goodell told Sherman. “It does not drag in the facilities. We do not allow it.”

They do not leave it “dragging” in the facilities Because of the conflict. The measures taken to minimize the impact of a conflict of interest does not erase the conflict.

There is only one way to remove the conflict: delete the conflict.

For his part, Brady obstinately refuses to recognize the conflict. He attributes criticism of the situation to “paranoia and distrust“, And he seems to believe that those who are used to identifying the different things that can undermine the integrity of sport are sensitive to such questions because their own integrity is suspect.

Goodell adopted a simpler approach. But his argument is logically defective.

There was a conflict. The NFL has implemented rules to face the conflict. There is no conflict. We have always been at war with Eastasia.

There is always a conflict. But the league will not do anything, partly because the league does not want to admit that it created this mess by approving the partial purchase of the raiders by Brady last October.

And if, as Goodell says now, the teams do not have to talk to Brady, we suggest that all the teams take a page of the Marshawn Lynch game book and offer an answer when asked questions at a Brady production meeting: “I’m just here so I’m not condemned to a fine. “”

The debate continues to neglect the incredible value of being on the field before the matches. Players and assistant coaches will not flee Brady; Beyond the fact that he is Tom Freakin ‘Brady, he is able to give them a future job. They will speak to him, he will listen to, and he will collect information that can be used (as Brady himself says) to return raiders “to the glory of these incredible years under Al Davis and John Madden”.

If this happens, it is at this time that the other owners wake up. It was at this point that a critical mass of those that the rubber had built its agreement with Mark Davis will offer a rule that prevents Brady from participating in production meetings, to speak by telephone to players and coaches of other teams, and to stand on the field during pre-match warstlands and to take mental notes.

Or maybe they will do what they should have done last year-tell him to choose a way.

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