Going all the way back to Bountygate, and then through Deflategate and the Ray Rice video, I've learned to assume the worst about the NFL and teams' front offices. Nonetheless, if you had told me a week ago after Washington claimed Reuben Foster off waivers that a) the team did absolutely no due diligence on him, and b) they would blatantly lie about just how little they had done, despite the fact that their lies were easily checkable, I'm still not sure I would have believed you.
Similarly, if you had told me before Friday that the league had learned nothing from Ray Rice, and would in fact make all of the exact same mistakes just four years after it happened, I once again would have concluded it couldn't possibly be that bad.
But it is that bad. So going forward, I'm just going to operate under the assumption that there is no bottom. The NFL never does the right thing. If they say that they did, they are lying. I will suspend all disbelief that anyone could simultaneously be both that incompetent and that evil. Goodell will find a way.
Similarly, if you had told me before Friday that the league had learned nothing from Ray Rice, and would in fact make all of the exact same mistakes just four years after it happened, I once again would have concluded it couldn't possibly be that bad.
But it is that bad. So going forward, I'm just going to operate under the assumption that there is no bottom. The NFL never does the right thing. If they say that they did, they are lying. I will suspend all disbelief that anyone could simultaneously be both that incompetent and that evil. Goodell will find a way.