Mr. WEO

I'm not sure all of this expansion (on TV and internationally) gets done without the ultimate macher---Goodell. He knows all the "players" in all forms of broadcasting. Some new guy would not be viewed in the same way by those paying to broadcast the NFL.... Rule changes I agree--nothing to do with Goodell.

This has nothing to do with associates and partners--in the NFL there are none. Probably best to move off that odd comp. Whether there are 2 or 2000 lawyers clamoring to take the job has no meaning---only Goodell has it and he's not going anywhere until he says so. The owners have to be completely satisfied with his tenure thus far. His "successor" is a non-issue.

Not sure how this is relevant to the conversation. I don't "hate" sports figures--I don't know them. But I was skeptical when the trade was announced, based on the same behavior with the Vikings. A few years later and surprise surprise, he doesn't survive his last contract. This was all his doing, nothing to do with me. But some of us saw this as inevitable. The guy is outwardly immature--a cancer on any roster. He's about to be 0 for 3 on that note.... Higgins would have been a fantastic alternative to Diggs.

Goodell has nothing to do with what individual owners charge fans to enter the stadium. Likewise, he didn't decide to sell the product to streamers. The demand was there. The demand isn't there for these other sports--which really become relevant only during the playoffs.... Get ready for Oklahoma City vs Indiana AND Edmonton vs Florida in the Finals! Networks must be dying.... This is why I'm betting the majority of the owners do not care whether Goodell, right now, has a "succession plan". I have no doubt the owners pushed for international expansion. Goodell has run with it for sure. But it never gets birthed without the owners coming to Goodell with the idea...which he made a reality.

Well none of this is applicable for obvious reasons. There is only 1 NFL Commissioner. Why would the next guy take less than the current guy gets paid?

Amazingly, both are still on their roster. 2 Super Bowls. A Lombardi. Diggs is gone with less than nothing to show for it. No SBs….

Oh Diggs was a "sure thing" all right lol! If Roseman had not also put together a roster that played in 2 of the last 3 SBs, destroying a 15 win Chiefs team, you might have a point. They could shrug of a bad decision at WR. He quickly rebounded by drafting Smith and then traded for AJ Brown. Beane brought in his usual minibus load of week old bread bin guys who end their careers in Buffalo soon after their 1 year paper expires.... Diggs never moved the needle for the Bills--zero impact: with or without Diggs, Bills win the division, lose to the Chiefs in the playoffs. It cost a potential top rookie WR on a 5 year contract and 31 million in dead cap, plus all the predictable immaturity/headaches.

Cole Bishop "the psychopath on the field" isn't on the roster

Beane's draft day ineptitude drafting WRs, he probably would not have picked Jefferson.

@BADOLBILZ nailed it: Posted April 9, 2022 Literally, you can look at Diggs then existing contract and say there was no need to act..............not just "technically". You can't keep everyone at their happiest as a GM.........sometimes players are going to want for things. I think Beane did a pretty good job keeping Diggs at bay on an extension for a couple years.........but ultimately the objective should have been to get him to the offseason before his walk year and see where he stood going into his age 30 season. Beane blew all of his gains by having him at 3/4 of the market by re-inking him at the top of the market, IMO. People can disagree but I think this deal ends with 2-3 years left and a lot of dead money.

No not all of us...

the better question is what didn't Beane understand about Diggs before he traded for him? Diggs's early end in Buffalo was completely predictable to many.......

“Shady” picking me up after he tosses a few “minus 1s” off the party bus…

I had read that--that Terry hired him so he could "be heard". Obviously that was a problematic reason to hire someone immediately, as it was already clear that Pegula's management of this team has been a total disaster since he bought it. Now he hires this guy to prop up the guy who was hired to listed to Pegula. It is to laugh.....Terry should be barred from the building. I wonder if Lou even waited to hang up before he started laughing

no doubt--that only leaves that he's a liar in blaming someone else. But he's not a very good one. Brown couldn't teach him to be more clever it seems.

The NFL was no anything like the money maker it has become under Goodell. The TV contracts he helped negotiate were astronomical and keep getting bigger. Teams are typically sold or handed down to children, so comparison to NFL Commissioner succession makes no sense at all. Goodell only does #4 and 5. the rest is the owners exclusively. Waiting in the wings for what? Goodell could stay another 15 years. Why would the next guy accept less than Goodell makes now? Same job. How did you conclude that 66 is "too old" to be Commissioner. There is only overwhelming evidence that this is completely untrue. What you got? And Who has done this better than Goodell--and why would youth be more innovative? Goodell is printing money for these owners for decades. Why would they be looking to someone else right now? These owners should know any of the NFL Corp staff and who might be a good fit next without Goodell telling them who it is. So is every next Commissioner, FO person, player or owner. So what? Does anyone think these owners are going to put the league in the hands of a chump like Dean Blandino (a replay ref)?? Goodell knows everybody there is to know in the NFL universe--most importantly the broadcasters and advertisers. Imagine these people seeing Dean Blandino across the bargaining table instead of Goodell? They would be licking their chops as the owners watched billions fall off the table.

Why not fire Adams. He was hired to turn things around. It’s been years and he hasn’t moved the needle. Oegula should just sell this team to an owner with more savvy. He killed this franchise.

by whom? 66 isn't old fellas. More of his bosses are over 80 than are under 65. Why would a younger guy take less money? Didn't Goodell "set the market"?

Why would they even look for his successor--he's the most successful Commish in modern sports history. Look at MLB, the NBA and NHL. A lot of owners' total net worth is essentially the worth of their franchise. This happened with Goodell taking all the face shots for the Jerrys and Terrys.

Then he's the dumbest guy in the NFL and shouldn't be on the roster for that reason. Everyone who has gotten caught the past 10 years has claimed this. For this reason, it's just not a credible defense. No player would simply take something some trainer or what not handed him and said, "don't worry, it's ok". Most of these guys can read, so, if they were really not sure what was in the drugs they were given, they could easily find out. Why would they leave their fate in the hands of some pusher? Accepting responsibility isn't accomplished by blaming someone else (who is this person he's blaming anyway?). It's just not believable he didn't know what he put in his body. Zero point zero chance.

There's no significant penalty--most of these guess only miss games at the beginning of the season and then are allowed to play in the playoffs (not so in MLB). No one cares. Players union and owners are incentivized to break these rules or look the other way.

all i hear is this man...

the "usual suspects" will be the other trash QBs in the room....

lol real hard hitting softball session there. Tucker asks him a single question about the PEDs: why did you tell the Bills ahead of the signing....,when you didn't have to? As they all do the kid immediately goes on to blame "someone else" for his positive test (multiple times). Tucker just nods and smiles like a simp. Speaking of which, Ross looks to clock in at about 165lbs sitting there after he got off the juice...

he was a head case in Minny. same guy showed up to Buffalo. Shocking.