Goodell is an improvement

Overall, Goodell has done a tremendous job at holding players accountable for their actions. In ANY other profession, you don't get your job back after making it rain in a strip club on video and lying to police about someone getting shot. Goodell is the commissioner and has the right to play judge and jury as he sees fit, just as the CEO of a company could fire an employee for screwing the secretary on the copy machine.

We can sit here and banter over the details of case to case...the reality is neither I nor Noah and Dave possibly know completely what happened in the alleged incidents. Additionally, we have no idea what gets said to Goodell by the players in the incidents, police or anyone else for that matter. Goodell is a man who doesn't publically release these details, so we are really guessing based on media reports at times if we dive into the details.

I think his case by case assessment has been GENERALLY good. Pacman has been a continued idiot, and got what he deserved. I’m going to have to vehemently disagree on the criticism of the Vick case by other BingBongers. Look at the strides Vick took in prison to right his wrong. He reformed, he met with league mentor Tony Dungy who reported to Goodell on his progress, he plans to be involved in animal rights campaigns and was very forthcoming to Goodell after all his mistakes.

And I don’t care if I lose PETAs support on this blog - you can’t tell me killing an animal is on the same level as a human. I’m not saying it’s right – but it’s NOT the same. Finally, I will end my argument with pointing out that Dante Stallworth’s Madden 2004 awareness rating was a historically low 39…so lord only knows how he described the incident to Goodell.