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While I don't share Noah's enthusiasm on the TV-screen situation, it is pure naivety if you think Jerry Jones wasn't well aware of how low the screen would hang down and to play dumb on the matter was childish and Goodell should have fined him for it and made him donate the money to charity or something, but that controversy is over and done with.

This Cable thing really is appalling though.  Any time any allegations have been made against an NFL player (Vick, Stallworth, etc.) Goodell has come out and suspended the player indefinitely awaiting information and clarification on what had taken place.  However, a Raiders assistant coach is walking around with a broken jaw and Tom Cable is still out there on the sidelines every Sunday?  Something doesn't sound right here.  And it all goes back to my belief that Roger Goodell considers himself the 10th Justice of the Supreme Court.

Take Michael Vick and Donte Stallworth for example.  (Before I continue, I want to make it absolutely clear that I do NOT in any way condone Vick or Stallworth's actions, but am simply trying to make a point.)  Michael Vick was found guilty of dog-fighting charges and spent two years in jail.  When his sentence was up, he was allowed back in the NFL by Roger Goodell, after only a two game suspension.  Donte Stallworth, on the other hand, was sentenced to 30 days in jail for vehicular manslaughter and when he was done paying his debt to society he came out and was suspended for the ENTIRE season.

Now I'm not saying that a 30-day prison sentence is justifiable for taking a human life, but that was the punishment that a United States judge decided.  Whether or not that seems right or fair, it's not Roger Goodell's place to make up for what he feels might be an unfair punishment.  That just doesn't seem right to me.  Both players served their debt to society (technically) yet Vick is playing and Stallworth is out for the whole year.  This all just goes back to my original point that there is no precedence in place for player punishments and until there is, Goodell will continue to hand out suspensions and fines based on his own personal beliefs.