Call Cuban, get him a cigar...... Blow it all up, it's not sports anymore. It's def WWE scripted MIKE FLORIO ON D&C: POSSIBLE COUP IN WORKS AT NFL OFFICES TO REPLACE ROGER GOODELL 09.11.15 at 9:25 am ET By Jerry Spar Mike Florio Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio checked in with Dennis & Callahan with Minihane on Friday morning, following the Patriots’ 28-21 victory over the Steelers, and discussed the lingering mistrust of the Patriots, rumors of a possible coup in the league offices, and what was learned on the field Thursday night. To hear the interview, go to the Dennis & Callahan audio on demand page. Florio is one of the few national writers who has defended the Patriots and aggressively questioned the league’s handling of Deflategate. ESPN, meanwhile, has come under heavy criticism of late for appearing to pander to the league and slant its coverage against the Pats, including some questionable editing of ESPNBoston.com writer Mike Reiss. “I’m not going to say they’re handling it poorly, I think they’re handling exactly the way they want to,” Florio said of ESPN. “Whatever their agenda and objective is, they’re handling it well. And it’s a bad agenda, and it’s a strange objective. This Reiss thing was so stupid. If they had just let it go and not changed anything in his column, no one would have noticed it. They do the ‘tighter edit’ and take out two of seven bullet points and everybody pays attention, everybody notices it and it creates this big issue. And it just exposes the idea that there is some agenda there. “I don’t know what they’re doing. I don’t know why they’re doing it. I don’t know if they’re trying to get a cheaper rights fee the next time around from when we do the extension, the broadcast contract. But I’ll tell you this: The NFL is as upset with ESPN as the Patriots right now from this latest 10,000-word opus, because it slams the league office as much as it slams the Patriots. So I don’t know what the agenda is.” Florio suggested that the NFL leaks might be related to individuals in the league offices looking toward a future without Roger Goodell. “You just have to wonder what’s really going on behind the curtain,” Florio said. “And I know somebody who understands the dynamics of the league office [who] is convinced that there were league office sources who were feeding ESPN information with two agendas — to retaliate against the Patriots and to set Roger Goodell up for eventually being thrown out of office, because there are people who have their eyes on that job or eyes on the potential for advancing to a higher job under a different commissioner. That’s where this thing gets really bizarre. Is there a coup in the works? I don’t know. But a lot of nervous people at the league office, a lot of people putting potential plans into motion aimed at advancing their own interests or protecting themselves.” Florio acknowledged concern about the Patriots’ behavior but continued to point the finger at the league for ultimately failing to handle the matter properly. “Everybody’s entitled to their own opinion,” Florio said. “The problem is is that enough has been accused and alleged and there’s enough facts out there, and ESPN and Sports Illustrated injected into it this week with the pieces that had a mixture of suspicion and fact, and it’s hard to separate it. And I am very much of the mindset that I want to see proof of anything before I’m going to come to a conclusion. And guys, with all that said, those text messages between John Jastremski and Jim McNally, I look at that and say I’m troubled by it and I’d love to get to the bottom of it and I wish the NFL would have gotten to the bottom of it. And that’s one of the ways the NFL failed everyone — they didn’t get to the bottom of it. I want to know what happened. I want to know the truth. I don’t want supposition, I don’t want ‘more likely than not,’ I want to know the truth. But at the same time, the party responsible for getting to the truth failed miserably. “The suspicion at this point is unavoidable. There’s been too many people who have jumped off the top rope, and I think it’s natural for people to suspect something. … And remember this, too: There is that one burning example of the rules violation from which all of this flowed. You take Spygate out of the equation and you say it’s all unfair. With Spygate you have to acknowledge there was a blatant example of cheating that happened over a period of time, and it’s the Patriots’ own fault for not stopping it after memos came out from the league office that they were on to you. And doing it against Eric Mangini. Of all the stupidity/arrogant things you can do, doing it against a guy who knows what you do, that’s at the top of the list.”
I posted this article in another thread since there was no point of starting yet another one. And this is another anonymous report. I give it no more or less weight than any other anonymous report.
I normally would agree with you on the anonymous source thing but this time i'm not sure. Roger is making the league look stupid and this would be a great time for a power play. If other owners are already upset with the Pats hi-jinx this would be a pretty simple way to 2 birds 1 stone. They can essentially muzzle the Pats back to an even playing field and oust the commish in one foul swoop. i actually think the game is strong enough right now they could handle the controversy if discipline was swift.
The only way to make it an even playing field would be to take away BB and TB and that isn't happening.
Oh for fucks sake already. Can we start a Tebowmania-style subforum for dickhead Steelers and Patriots fans to talk about the Patriots cheating already and keep this dogshit out of the NFL forum? I don't want to see this tiresome bullshit every 15 minutes now that the season has started.
It fits for sure, but it's still just guessing and anonymous sources. I believe for sure there is something very big laying very dark right now and I'd love love love to know what exactly is going on behind the curtain. The sausage is coming out all funny.
Well, Florio hasn't been caught in multiple lies or negated by a federal judge so I'd say he's the one with credibility between the two, wouldn't you? Or does he lose credibility for publishing facts that work against your absolutely pathological "thought" process that begins and ends with you and your emotional state and how it relates to a fucking football team?
At this point there is literally zero reason why he should still have his job. I dont want to hear the whole "he makes the owners money" garbage..cause quite frankly I could be the NFL commissioner and the owners would make as much money as they do with Goodell. There's too many negatives and the public opinion of the NFL is at an all time low no matter what the ratings say. Most of those ratings are due to fantasy football and betting anyways. Who's really watching the last few drives of last nights game if not for fantasy football?
1) i don't foresee them staying much longer then another season or two. i would be willing to bet they are both gone by the 2018 season. BB has to be getting close to burning out and TB despite what he says has got to be feeling his age creeping in. 2) i mean even the playing field by all these "alleged" quirks that pop up around the Pats like the visiting teams headsets playing the radio broadcast suddenly going away. Please note i said alleged because i am at least willing to admit that at this moment a lot of this is based on anonymous sources. And if its BB and TB at the top of this pile (it obviously is them if this mass cheating is going down) it probably wouldn't be too hard to convince them to retire a year or two early in exchange for not blowing their world apart.
I really just want someone to drop a tell all interview. I have a feeling this involves the head office and more teams then just the Pats.
Gronks knees, Ernie adams spy cell network and low level kraft corporate personnel ..pats most valuable assets
It's not Goodell making the league look stupid, it's the Patriots and their propensity to cheat at everything they do..it's almost become a game with them it seems. When the league does try to reign them in then you get judges that let them off so they can do it all again.
I suggest you get used to it since the NFL's FO credibility is hovering at 4%. The ligitimacy of the NFL is at stake
Just maybe after they dump this dick wipe the truth will come out on how he dumped evidence on the cheating scum bag team.
Based upon your post, I'd say the legitimacy of the American educational system is what's really at stake.
