Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has doubled down on his crusade against the NFL, accusing Falcons owner Arthur Blank — head of the league’s compensation committee — of “misleading” NFL owners on the terms of Roger Goodell‘s contract extension, according to Chris Mortensen of ESPN.com.
There’s quite a bit to unpack in this story, but Jones’ key complaints revolve around the six-man competition committee, a ownership sub-group that determines Goodell’s salary. Per Jones, Blank previously indicated the specifics of Goodell’s new deal would be “unanimously” approved by the committee before heading to a vote from all 32 of the league’s owners. When two members of the group showed concerns with Goodell’s extension, Blank “backed off” his claims that a unanimous vote was a prerequisite.
Jones also claims he “discovered a number of very concerning issues” regarding Goodell’s deal, including a “discretionary bonus plan” that hadn’t been part of the original contract. Additionally, initial plans for an offer to Goodell contained performance-based incentive language — the new contract was a “departure” from that original concept, per Mortensen.
Whether or not Jones will actually follow through with his intention of suing the NFL is unclear at present, but the league’s competition committee — which recently removed Jones as an “ad hoc” seventh member — has sent a stern reminder to the Cowboys owner, as Daniel Kaplan of SportsBusiness Journal tweets. The group revealed contract language which requires an owner who sues the league to pay for not only his own legal expenses, but those of the NFL as well.
Also left unresolved is whether the NFL’s decision to suspend Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott for six games — a suspension which will now seemingly take effect at long last — has played any role in Jones’ legal threats. While reports have indicated Jones’ battle is solely on Goodell’s compensation, it’s fair to wonder whether Elliott’s ban, and the ongoing saga surrounding the back, have pushed Jones into his current frame of mind.
Jones should sell the Cowboys in protest: that’ll show em
Yeah ok
Good. This piece of garbage Goodell deserves all the hassle he’s getting. I hope he ends up out of the nfl all together!
He put a black eye on the league and the sport with what he’s done and it’ll take a generation to get past it!
Yeah what he said….except replace “Goodell” with “Jerry”..
@Polish Hammer Mrs. Goodell, is that you?
Does the Zeke situation play into what Jerry Jones is doing? Absolutely. But put that aside and how could Goodell be worth $40M+ a year right now. The league is in horrendous shape due directly to his poor leadership on numerous issues. To be the highest paid employee in US sports you need to be working magic, not causing disasters.
Or just run a business that brings in billion$
Goodell isn’t the CEO of the NFL. The owners all run their own businesses and the NFL collectively.
Goodell was selected by the owners to run the NFL just like a CEO is selected by shareholders to run a large business.
You obviously have no idea how the NFL works compared to your average corporation. Comparing the owners to stockholders is absurd.
You obviously have no idea about a wide assortment of topics, including but not limited to corporations, the NFL, and civil interpersonal communications.
To your point the NFL brings in $13B a year. However, the trajectory of the NFL is on a negative forecast. Most of the dynamics that are taking place in the league stem from Goodell’s utter lack of leadership. The league is on a downward spiral and it’s time to make a change at the top.
Roger Goodell, Jerry Jones, Ezekiel Elliott, Colin Kaepernick and all their lawyers walk into a bar. Aliens attack Earth, and in the ensuing battle the bar and all of its patrons and transported to one of the moons of Neptune and are never seen or heard from on this planet. The aliens leave. NFL fans everywhere celebrate.
Screw Goodell. He is a scam.
Jerry Jones has become the old crazy Al Davis. The NFL would be better without him and Goodell both. This game has gotten so crazy under Goodell. Like tonight the Cardinal player catches the ball takes 3 steps even though he was stumbling they were steps falls down fumbles the ball and they call it incomplete. Nobody knows what a pass is anymore. Dallas knows with the Dez no catch. It is crazy. Get a commissioner back in there that tells the competition committee to simplify a catch. If grandma in the stands thinks it a catch it should be a catch to a certain extent. Get the NFL back to what most of us enjoyed.
I hate Jerry Jones with a passion
The last paragraph in the article is pointless. It is never going to be determined unless Jerry says so himself (which he will never do).