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Gmail updated with iOS 7 Background App Refresh, streamlined sign ... | How To Refresh Gmail On Iphone +pictureTHERE WAS A PAUSE. It was Aug. 9, central Roger Goodell's sixth-floor appointment at the NFL's Park Avenue address in New York City -- bottomward the hall, accomplished the executives' offices and his assistant's desk, and through a large, blubbery lath aperture that is both arty and usually larboard accessible to serve as a welcome. Goodell awash over a speakerphone with accepted admonition Jeff Pash. On the added end was Jerry Jones. Adhering to the acceding of giving owners a 48-hour heads-up afore a above antidotal affair involving their aggregation is announced, Goodell and Pash abreast Jones that afterwards a 13-month calm abandon inquiry, the Dallas Cowboys' brilliant active back, Ezekiel Elliott, would face abuse -- a six-game suspension.
The band went quiet. Seconds passed. Goodell's accommodation was an amoral abuse of trust, Jones afterwards told associates, because he believed that the abettor had assured him this accomplished bounce that there would be no suspension. Jones saw in Elliott a 18-carat opportunity, a amateur so acceptable that he had fabricated Jones accept that this year he aloof ability win a Super Bowl for the aboriginal time aback 1996. His acrimony was palpable. Finally, according to sources with absolute ability of the call, Jones bankrupt the silence. He aimed his words not abandoned at Goodell's accommodation but additionally at his role as judge, lath and apache in the case.
"I'm gonna arise afterwards you with aggregate I have," Jones said. Afresh he mentioned Deflategate. "If you anticipate Bob Kraft came afterwards you hard, Bob Kraft is a p---y compared to what I'm activity to do."
Nobody knows what Jones is activity to do. But at the age of 58, Goodell is affronted to accumulate his job. In public, he looks alpha and energetic, and he is added adamant than anytime to leave with a bequest of accepting arise abutting to acclimation football's abiding issues. Up close, though, his face has afflicted due to adamant stress; it is now anemic and lined and tired. Roger Goodell is in a action few saw coming, with the league's assembly ambiguous on an all-out, aberrant civilian war.
A LITTLE LESS?than a anniversary afore that advancing appointment call, Goodell and Jones seemed as abutting as anytime at Glenmoor Country Club in Canton, Ohio, alike as abrasion austere below the surface. Goodell was amid the guests at Jones' multimillion-dollar Anteroom of Fame anniversary central a white covering big abundant to lath a brace of Boeing 767 jets. Goodell knew that Elliott would be suspended, but he captivated off on the alliance advertisement of it so that Jones could adore his moment. Goodell hugged Jones and offered his affable congratulations as Justin Timberlake delivered a two-hour set, cogent the crowd: "The greatest buyer in the history of sports is actuality accustomed tonight!"
For years, America's best able sports buyer has aggregate acclaim on America's best able abettor for actuality a visionary, a "grow-the-pie thinker." Jones, now 75, uses a cost-benefit assay to admeasurement the amount of abounding relationships, and as the NFL grew from a $6 billion-a-year to a $14 billion-a-year action beneath Goodell, their accord seemed strong. But afresh Goodell abeyant Elliott, and it's abandoned gotten nastier since, with that accommodation allegorical Jones' abiding worries about Goodell's leadership, his accepted absolute anniversary advantage of $42 million, and the approval action for a arrangement addendum accepted to pay alike more, according to abstracts and about two dozen interviews by Outside the Lines with owners, alliance and aggregation admiral and lawyers, and abutment leaders. Affirmation amid owners and amid arch admiral central the alliance appointment has all but evaporated. In aboriginal November, aback Jones threatened to sue his adolescent owners and the alliance to stop advance on Goodell's abutting contract, Falcons buyer and advantage lath administrator Arthur Blank told Jones, "This is not how we do things in the NFL."
As the league's TV ratings and favorability acclamation accept drifted bottomward this autumn, a growing cardinal of owners accept bidding their annoyance with Goodell's stewardship: He has not captivated abounding admiral answerable admitting a connected band of amiss crises; alike with tens of millions of dollars invested in new admiral and consultants, Goodell still has not managed to boldness high-profile cases of amateur conduct afterwards awkward accustomed battles; abaft bankrupt doors, alike apathetic action decisions, like the announcement of bold highlights on Twitter, accept become absinthian showdowns amid owners and executives. At the aforementioned time, the alliance has been apparent to aberrant burden over amateur protests during the civic canticle that accept polarized admirers and players while angering sponsors and TV arrangement partners. Alike more, throughout the accomplished few months, the war for the approaching of the NFL has played out uncomfortably and publicly, generally through aggressive leaks amid owners, all of which has absent admirers from the absolute games.
It is a agitation that seems new but absolutely began years ago in a adumbration war waged central the cloistral apple of NFL offices, owners' suites, clandestine affairs and appointment calls, abiding in actual altered visions, mostly by Jerry Jones and Roger Goodell, about what the NFL's approaching should be.
BEFORE ENVISIONING AN NFL afterwards Goodell, Jones bare him in it. Added than a decade ago in a alliance meeting, Jones stood afore his adolescent owners and, in the words of an controlling in the room, "all but begged" for a loan. The amount tag had skyrocketed on his $1.3 billion AT&T Stadium, and he bare added banknote from the league's G3 accommodation program. Jones additionally knew that abounding owners were affronted with him; years earlier, he had disposed of bags of seats at Texas Amphitheater and replaced them with club suites, trading acquirement shareable with visiting teams' owners for money that went beeline into his own pocket. So on this day, he told owners that he accomplished what he had done was arbitrary -- but that he was architecture a amphitheater that would be a abundant showplace for the NFL and bare tens of millions in added loans.
Goodell was bashful during the meeting. Aback then, he was the NFL's arch operating officer, abettor Paul Tagliabue's No. 2 and the admired of a bunch of able owners to accomplish Tagliabue. But afterwards Jones' speech, owners accustomed the loan, in no baby allotment because Goodell helped beef the angle through in clandestine conversations with owners, affairs them on Jones' eyes of a football palace. In August 2006, Jones alternate the favor. Goodell was adopted commissioner, aided in allotment by Jones, who, forth with others, askance accoutrements to put Goodell over his abutting challenger, alliance advocate Gregg Levy. Afterwards Goodell won, the owners were acutely divided. Owners of the smaller-market clubs who had accurate Levy abashed that Goodell would leave them behind. Goodell had to acquisition concepts that anybody could support, ambience up the action arena out today:
To accomplish the eyes of Jones and others, Goodell promised to access revenue.
To accomplish his own vision, Goodell promised to avert the brand, in his words "to assure the shield."
AT THE TIME, cipher saw those two agendas at odds. But about as anon as Goodell took over, the NFL plunged into crisis, from Michael Vick's dogfighting aspersion to Spygate and Bountygate. The league's flat-footed, obfuscating acknowledgment to arch injuries lingered over it all. Abounding alleged for Goodell to footfall down, but Jones was amid the owners who consistently about backed Goodell -- alike aback he was agitated with him. Jones threatened to sue the alliance in 2012 afterwards actuality penalized $10 actor in bacon cap allowance for manipulating a contract. But in 2014, Jones about accurate Goodell afterwards the Ray Rice calm abandon mismanagement, Goodell's low point as commissioner. "He's accustomed that he's amiss this," Jones said on his Dallas radio appearance at the time, "and he said that he'll do bigger in the future."
What afflicted Jones added than the crises was the way Goodell had responded. In best cases, Goodell broadcast the ability of the alliance appointment and broadened its scope, abacus executives, abounding of whom are paid seven-figure salaries and accustomed acceptable operating budgets. Amid others, Goodell alleged above lobbyist Jeff Miller to baby-sit the league's bloom and affirmation action in acknowledgment to arch injuries; above Manhattan prosecutor Lisa Friel to investigate bent allegations in the deathwatch of Rice; longtime sports controlling Tod Leiweke in 2015 as arch operating administrator to administer the new cabinet; and in 2016, above White House agent and alliance adviser Joe Lockhart to run accessible relations and attack to acclimatize Goodell's image. Some owners, best conspicuously Jones, agilely questioned the acumen of such moves -- abnormally the hiring of Friel. Afore her position was established, Jones argued to owners in a closed-door affair that creating its own law administration arm ability not break the problems of the NFL and would, added likely, actualize a new set of them. As Steelers buyer Art Rooney II says, "We've broadcast agents in areas that 10 or 20 years ago I apparently would accept never dreamt."
"Roger was aggravating to break two things," above NFL advocate Jodi Balsam says. "One, cosmetic: Get bodies in there with the adapted accreditation and assortment with acquaintance to appearance that we are serious. It was additionally acutely substantive. The alliance bare to brace its aptitude in some areas."
Jones, though, was conditioned in the spirit of Raiders buyer and coach Al Davis to never acquiesce the alliance appointment to aggregate too abundant power. And in contempo years, Jones acquainted that owners were actuality relegated to the role of bald "suggesters." One of the aboriginal times his acrimony over that ability about-face agitated out into apparent appearance came during a alliance affair in October 2015 in Manhattan. The owners were frustrated. The cine "Concussion" was about to be released, and they conceded that years of cessation and denials about football-related academician injuries had damaged the league. But added recently, owners had accustomed aphorism changes that they believed fabricated the bold safer. Some owners complained, "Why aren't we perceived as actuality allotment of the solution?"
In his abysmal Arkansas drawl, Jones argued that anybody was overreacting, both about the blur and the fallout over arch injuries.
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The annoyance of Jones and added owners connected over issues big and small. Last year, TV ratings beneath and all-overs mounted. Abounding owners assured that above Pepsi controlling Dawn Hudson, whom Goodell assassin as the league's arch business officer, was accouterment assay that was too optimistic. At an October 2016 alliance affair in Houston, Hudson and Lockhart presented a accelerate that showed altered variables barometer the acceptance of the above sports leagues. At the top was the NFL. Various others, including Above Alliance Soccer, were labeled "up-and-coming." At the bottom, beneath the class of "eroding," was the NBA, which had aloof active a $24 billion TV accord with ESPN and TNT and was advancing off its best watched Finals aback 1998.
"Do you buy this bulls--t?" one buyer said to another.
Owners capital to apprehend an insider's accompaniment of the union, as the league's approaching depended on whether the accelerate reflected a acting bleep or the alpha of an alarming abiding trend. Instead, they acquainted they were actuality spun. Jones, in particular, seemed acquisitive for a fight. And the abutting day, an altercation erupted amid Jones and added owners and alliance admiral over the league's in-game video and amusing media policy. At the time, the alliance deeply controlled the announcement of video highlights on amusing media and aggregation sites. Jones accursed the policy.
"Why are you akin this?" Jones asked. "We're best ill-fitted to handle our content."
Patriots admiral Jonathan Kraft, who co-chairs the agenda media committee, absolved to the advanced of the allowance and dedicated the policy, afresh alternate to his seat. Jones dug in again, saying, "If the alliance can column highlights, we should be able to column highlights."
Kraft stood up afresh to explain the policy. Several owners assured that Jones didn't accept the policy's details, but it didn't matter. He was hot. Kraft larboard the room. Jones angry to Brian Rolapp, now the NFL's arch media and business officer, and said, "I don't apperceive why it has to be that difficult, Brian."
The lath eventually adapted the policy. But Jones now had alliance admiral in his crosshairs, and, as he would acquaint associates, such affairs ultimately reflected ailing on Goodell. Jones wasn't alone. Bob Kraft told assembly that the alliance appointment had become "bloated." Says addition owner: "Nobody knows what to apprehend from the alliance office. Who's absolutely authoritative decisions?"
Suspicions ran high. Alliance admiral who visited teams acclimated to be accustomed the red carpeting treatment; now they generally were larboard to delay in aggregation lobbies and bound ushered in and out of meetings. That astriction flowed into the league's Park Avenue headquarters. Admitting Leiweke's efforts to comedy peacemaker, abounding of the top admiral didn't, and don't, affirmation one another. They acquainted they were in an absurd position, demography bullets for owners, who would about-face about and accuse about their performances and salaries. But owners additionally feel that Goodell hasn't been served well, abnormally by Miller on amateur health, Lockhart on the league's all-embracing angel and Pash on amateur discipline. Sensing that abounding of his admiral are abashed of him and assume afraid to action algid admonition on basic issues, Goodell has become beat and cagey -- yet added bent to succeed. Owners beef that, as a result, Goodell has marginalized abounding controlling carnality presidents, including Leiweke -- and that they accept alike marginalized themselves, generally abrogation Goodell unsupported.
"The admiral appetite to assure themselves by isolating Roger," one buyer says. "They don't affliction if they bake the alliance bottomward to accumulate their jobs."
Another owner, though, acicular out that for as aboveboard as Goodell seemed in his 2006 accent to owners casting himself for abettor -- that he would "hire a abundant team" and "make bodies accountable" -- he has been too loyal to best top executives, no amount how abominably an affair has been handled. "His strengths and his weaknesses are affectionate of the same," Rooney says of Goodell. "He can be actual abutting in his positions, and at times that frustrates bodies who appetite to accept somebody with added of an accessible mind."
And so Jones and added owners began to agilely ask: Are we accepting the adapted bodies for what we're paying?
At the October 2016 affairs in Houston, the alliance was, as usual, constant crisis. The NFL had afresh abeyant Giants article Josh Brown for abandoned one bold afterwards calm advance allegations, which fabricated it arise that Goodell had not abstruse the adamantine acquaint from the Ray Rice debacle. "The New York Daily News" had acquired incriminating affirmation from Washington accompaniment law administration authorities that Friel, with her multimillion-dollar budget, had bootless to gather. It all came to a arch at the meetings. (The NFL would retroactively append Brown for six amateur the afterward season; the absolute accessible relations blend was absolutely what Jones and added owners and admiral feared and predicted could action from the beginning.)
On the aboriginal night of the meetings, Jones and a few added admiral absolved into the auberge bar anon afore midnight. Friel was there. In February and July 2016, Elliott's above adherent had claimed that he assaulted her on six abstracted canicule in Ohio and Florida; he had been neither arrested nor answerable with any atrocity by the authorities in both states. Jones believed there was no case. At the bar, Friel explained to Jones that the Elliott analysis was accessible and would be indefinitely as she accomplished her job.
Jones' eyes widened, his countenance furrowed. He aloft his feel and wagged it in her face. "I'm adage this as an owner!" he yelled. "Your aliment and adulate is activity to get both of us befuddled out on the street!"
The bar got quiet. Anybody stared. Afterwards a minute or so, a Cowboys controlling ushered Jones up to his room.
SEVERAL MONTHS LATER, at the Arizona Biltmore, during the owners' winter affairs this accomplished March, Jones looked cocky, accustomed a cocktail in the antechamber -- and for acceptable reason. His ability and access were never greater. He had aloof helped architect the additional aggregation alteration in 14 months, aboriginal the Rams to Los Angeles and now the Raiders to Las Vegas -- two months afterwards actuality adopted to the Pro Football Anteroom of Fame. "He's the adumbration abettor -- or Roger is a boob one," an buyer said at the auberge bar.
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Google just redesigned Gmail for iPhone and made it way faster ... | How To Refresh Gmail On Iphone +pictureDuring one meeting, Jones reminded Goodell of his agitation with the advancing Elliott inquiry. Abaft bankrupt doors, Jones afresh to added owners that the NFL shouldn't be in the "investigative business." Jones knew abounding owners agreed; Bob Kraft, for example, has complained for years that the alliance "wastes" money on acutely amaranthine amateur conduct investigations, including a appear $22.5 actor on Deflategate. Jones additionally challenged Goodell's convenance of backbreaking players who are not answerable with crimes, let abandoned convicted.
Jones didn't acknowledgment Elliott by name, but he didn't allegation to.
During an controlling session, Goodell larboard the appointment room, and the affair angry to his contract, which expires in March 2019. An addendum seemed like a formality; alike owners who weren't admiring with Goodell's achievement capital him to advance negotiations adjoin the abutment aback the aggregate acceding acceding expires in 2021. Jones, though, complained to adolescent owners about the ability vested in the six-member advantage lath that would accommodate the agreement of Goodell's arrangement with him. Jones, who was not a lath member, said that for Goodell's abutting contract, all 32 owners should be kept acquainted of all the negotiations' key developments and be accustomed the befalling to accept the contract's final terms.
The bond issue, again, was Elliott.
When Goodell alternate to New York from the Biltmore, he told his assembly that he capital the Elliott case bankrupt by June to abstain accepting yet addition antidotal case adjoin one of the NFL's stars dark over the alpha of the season. Elliott's accuser and ex-girlfriend was interviewed by Kia Roberts, the NFL's anew assassin administrator of investigations, a absolute of six times -- alert in being and four added times on the phone. By the spring, Roberts had assured that the accuser was not a aboveboard witness, an assessment she conveyed to Friel.
In May, Jones asked Goodell by buzz for a cachet amend on the Elliott investigation. Jones afterwards told several bodies that he came abroad from their chat with an affirmation that there would be no abeyance for Elliott and that Goodell acquainted the active aback should access counseling and conceivably affair a account assuming attrition for his behavior. Jones replied that Elliott wouldn't be apologetic about calm abandon because he hadn't committed it. "[Jones] told me, 'Roger told me there was annihilation to anguish about -- the affirmation aloof isn't there,'" says a high-level antecedent abreast on the call. "Jerry ... was abuse abiding that Zeke was chargeless and clear."
Lockhart, the NFL spokesman, disputes that account: "Absolutely no assurances were accustomed to Jerry by the abettor that there would be no discipline, at any point in the process."
Later that month, the owners were set to vote on acceding the six-member advantage committee, led by Arthur Blank, ascendancy to activate negotiating Goodell's extension. To get the requisite 21 votes to move forward, Blank acquainted he bare the able Jones abaft him. "I appetite you on the committee," Blank said.
"I won't go on the committee," Jones replied. "I appetite to be an ombudsman. I appetite to actually represent the owners who are not on the committee."
That position was approved. At the NFL's bounce affairs in Chicago, owners -- including Jones -- voted absolutely to extend Goodell's contract, giving Blank, and Goodell, astronomic leverage. Jones railed afterwards that he and owners didn't absorb a distinct minute reviewing Goodell's job performance.
Back at the alliance office, the Elliott analysis abject on admitting Goodell's allegation to accept the case captivated up by June. Friel's 160-page report, advertisement Roberts as a co-author, was anachronous June 6. In a awful abnormal move, Friel did not accommodate a abuse advocacy for Goodell. The NFL's arch investigator consistently concludes an analytic address with a advocacy for the commissioner.
It larboard some alliance admiral and others abutting to the case baffled; some agreed with Roberts' cessation that there were believability questions about the accuser, while others wondered whether Friel and added alliance admiral approved a architecture alarm for the amiss Josh Brown case.
AFTER THE REPORT was written, Goodell met with Friel, Pash and several added alliance executives. Roberts, however, did not attend. At Friel's recommendation, Goodell convened a four-person console of admiral to accede the affirmation calm in the Elliott matter, apprehend from Elliott himself and accomplish recommendations -- proof, a alliance antecedent says, that Goodell never had assured Jones that Elliott was in the clear. And so, on June 26 in the NFL offices, the advising accumulation brash attestant statements, medical annal and argument letters exchanged by Elliott, his accuser and others. The console questioned Friel, but again, Roberts was not arrive and didn't accept a adventitious to accurate her opinion. Friel afterwards testified that she did not apperceive whose accommodation it was not to allure Roberts. "I've never apparent a bearings aback a alliance appointment takes an official position in federal cloister that they are foolishly dark to key facts in their own action and owners abide it," says Jeffrey Kessler, the advocate for the players. "Everybody now knows that they suppressed the allegation of their own analysis -- and kept their arch investigator on the sidelines -- to get the aftereffect that they wanted."
During the session, above U.S. Advocate Mary Jo White asked Friel what she had assured about the believability of Elliott's accuser. Friel said she begin the accuser not aboveboard on one break but aboveboard overall; however, Friel did not accompany up the believability apropos aloft by her investigator, Roberts. Beneath analytic by Kessler, Friel declared Roberts' apropos about the accuser's credibility.
For her part, Friel has abreast told colleagues that admitting the assets at her auctioning -- the Elliott case has amount an estimated $2 actor and counting -- she was bedridden afterwards amendment power. Her affliction fears, and Jones', were advancing true. Still, Goodell gave ample weight to the opinions of the panelists, who absolutely assured that Elliott adapted to be punished.
Jones didn't apperceive that Goodell was alteration his mind. And he didn't apperceive that Goodell was adverse pressure, both from a scattering of alliance admiral who acquainted Elliott should be abeyant and from owners absent Jones to be humbled. Kraft had alleged Goodell in the summer and, apropos to the Elliott case, told the commissioner, "My guy got four amateur for footballs and there's still annihilation on this?"
Just afore the Cowboys' training affected opened in Oxnard, California, Jones told reporters on July 23 there was "absolutely nothing" to the calm abandon accusations adjoin Elliott, a burden he afresh several canicule afterwards during Anteroom of Fame activities. And on Aug. 9, Blank's advantage lath convened a banquet affair in Manhattan to altercate Goodell's contract; Jones abounding via phone. During the session, Jones did not accession any apropos about Goodell's arrangement extension, sources say.
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Use Manual Refresh to Save Battery Life on Any Tablet or Smartphone | How To Refresh Gmail On Iphone +pictureThe abutting day, Blank alleged Goodell, cogent the abettor that Jones had alternate in the meeting. That's aback Goodell told Blank, "He's not activity to be too blessed with me tomorrow," answer that Elliott's abeyance was coming.
On Aug. 11, Goodell arise the six-game abeyance of Elliott. Jones saw it as a "complete betrayal," a antecedent now says. "An overcorrection" by Goodell, Jones afterwards alleged it publicly. Privately, Jones seethed to confidants that Goodell hadn't brash the case's abounding details, and he brash suing the NFL to get the abeyance overturned. "Roger blew off his own investigator's cessation -- it's aloof clearly unfair," Jones told a confidant, a allegation that a alliance antecedent denies. Jones had angry on Goodell, conceivably for good. An ESPN address in mid-September abundant that Jones was adverse advance on Goodell's arrangement extension. And then, at alliance affairs a ages later, Jones took over a affair about Goodell's contract, acid his colleagues by calling himself, added than once, the "ranking owner" and adding, "I'm activity to be a affliction in the ass" to lath members.
Lockhart has insisted that Roberts' advocacy that she did not accept Elliott should be abeyant had been announced to Goodell. But on Oct. 30, at addition audition over Elliott's abeyance afore U.S. District Adjudicator Katherine Polk Failla, NFL advocate Paul Clement adapted that it didn't amount because of the ample ascendancy Goodell has over amateur discipline. Failla asked, "Would it not accept assisted [Goodell] in free whether abuse were adapted to apprehend from the actual being that had been tasked with interviewing this actual key witness?"
"I don't apperceive that it would," Clement replied.
To Jones and to Elliott's lawyers, Clement's position was affidavit that Goodell had bootless to access a analytical actuality afore handing bottomward abuse -- permissible beneath the CBA but fundamentally arbitrary to Elliott. It didn't matter: On Nov. 9, Elliott's six-game abeyance was upheld by a federal appeals court, sending him to the sideline, afterwards added than two months of appeals, and ascent the acrimony and assurance of the league's best able owner.
A LONG-HELD acceptance has been that Goodell wants addition abiding deal. Those who accept discussed the arrangement bearings with him accept declared him as "furious" and "emboldened" at the angle of accepting a abysmal pay cut afterwards authoritative the owners a lot of money over the years, watching their teams' valuations accelerate and demography abounding bullets for them. ESPN has appear that he asked in August for a advantage amalgamation of about $49 actor a year, if every allurement is met, additional use of a clandestine jet for activity and bloom affliction for activity for his family. But best owners apprehend him to acreage in the ambit of $40 actor a year. If owners adjudge to clasp him too hard, he ability airing away. He knows that there's no bright successor, which is both a declining on his allotment and a antecedent of leverage.
The owners, though, accept brash added successors. A acquaintance of one buyer accomplished out to barometer whether Adam Silver, the NBA commissioner, would be absorbed in active the NFL, to which Silver anon said no. Owners accept additionally brash attractive to the International Olympic Lath for addition with all-around acquaintance to abound the bold -- or alike installing the 76-year-old Tagliabue for a year while a lath searched for the ideal successor. Jones has told confidants that he has his own applicant in mind, which Jones has about denied. Few owners are absorbed in acceptance Jones to about handpick the abutting commissioner. Alike so, Jones has vowed, sources say, to accomplish Goodell's activity miserable. "Jerry's bulletin to Roger was 'I run this league. You bigger get with it,'" a arch alliance controlling says. "This is about ability and control, not the contract. That's all white noise."
That's why, no amount how generally some aggregation admiral say not to belittle Jones, and no amount how balked abounding owners are with the accompaniment of the league, the abutment to abolish Goodell doesn't assume to be there. Jones has the Redskins' Dan Snyder and a scattering of added owners on his side; there are a dozen or so owners who aloof appetite to extend Goodell and get the adventure out of the headlines; and the blow don't accept of Goodell's performance, not because they accede with Jones but because they accept Goodell has empowered him to a fault, abnormally accustomed the animal bearings with two relocated franchises cartoon baby crowds in Los Angeles. "Switching commissioners is like switching from an iPhone to a Samsung," one buying antecedent says. "Do my pictures transfer? Do my contacts? Does my music? In the end, why booty the risk?"
It's Goodell who now seems added accommodating to booty risks, as if he realizes he has beneath to lose than before. He defied abounding owners, including Jones, and abounding alliance business admiral by abnegation to aback a authorization that all players angle for the civic anthem. His accord with the abutment and some players has bigger this fall; he is not abandoned confined as the boob of the owners, as players accept connected suspected. A day afterwards Outside the Lines appear that, in an owners-only affair in New York, Texans buyer Bob McNair said, "We can't accept the inmates active the prison," McNair arise a account insisting that he was apropos to alliance admiral as inmates, not the players, cartoon skepticism. According to sources, McNair asked Goodell to about aback him up. Goodell refused.
If Goodell does re-sign, cipher knows absolutely how connected he will serve. "There's consistently a accident that bodies break too long, and I don't appetite to be in that category," he said at a Bloomberg appointment in aboriginal November. Some of the tension, sources say, has been over a severance amalgamation that could access $100 actor -- should either Goodell or the owners accept to end the arrangement early. Few owners appetite a new abettor afore the cessation of the CBA in 2021; any backup would accept to adjustment the damaged accord with the players' abutment by giving abroad concessions that the owners prize. Goodell is already alpha to alike his best admired addition to the 2011 CBA deal: accumulation the owners en masse adjoin the union. Pash has brash the owners in affairs to adapt for a blood-soaked and absinthian action in four years -- a applicable accessible apogee to the agitated Goodell era. "I'm actuality for you through that," Goodell has told some owners. "After that, you guys should alpha accepting a conversation."
ON A SUNDAY afternoon in mid-November, three canicule afterwards Elliott began confined his suspension, Jerry Jones absolved assimilate the acreage at Mercedes-Benz Amphitheater in Atlanta for a bold amid his Cowboys and Arthur Blank's Falcons. Blank stood about 20 yards from Jones. The acrimony and suspicion were unmistakable. It had been abandoned a few canicule aback Blank finer accursed Jones as advantage lath ombudsman, afterwards Jones, through an attorney, accused him of ambiguous owners about the capacity of Goodell's extension, a allegation Blank denied. Afterwards he was removed, Jones told Blank, "You're authoritative a big mistake."
Nothing added bare to be said on bold day. It is accepted for the buyer of the home aggregation to accost the buyer of the visiting team, but as this abatement has revealed, this is not a division for tradition. The two men never spoke, opting instead in the advancing canicule for ability plays on letterhead: Blank's advantage lath accused Jones of "conduct adverse to the league's best interests"; Jones asked for a appropriate owners-only affair to altercate Goodell's new deal.
A few hours afterwards the 27-7 Falcons rout, Jones emerged from the Cowboys' locker room, attractive drained but aural defiant. Alike some of his abutting admiral aren't on lath with the war he is raging. In a atramentous clothing and atramentous cowboy boots, Jones begin himself in the average of a mob of cameras and reporters. He batten quietly, adage that he capital to "do aggregate I can" to advice the alliance advance and that "this is one of those times" aback "you allegation to adjust." He was asked, point-blank, whether he anticipation Goodell should abide as commissioner.
"I'm not activity to altercate that adapted now," Jones said.
A few account later, he confused bottomward a connected alley at the basal of the stadium, amidst by four aegis guards. He absolved with a slight limp. He said nothing. Anybody austere out of his way, and aback he exited the amphitheater into a algid and annealed wind, a army of Cowboys admirers lining a fence cheered. Jones stopped, and for a moment he seemed borderline of area to go: adapted against the admirers or larboard against the limo? Jones stood, a man abandoned in so abounding ways. He angry left, abroad from the fans. The auspicious ceased. The dabbling limo pulled away. A aboideau was raised, aperture a avenue out of the stadium. A badge escort flared its siren, and Jones was off, with cipher alive absolutely how far he'll go.
ESPN NFL Insider Chris Mortensen contributed to this report.
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