Goodell should not oversee discipline
— -- CANTON, Ohio -- Roger Goodell screwed up the Ray Rice decision royally and still doesn't understand why. For those reasons, it is time for the NFL commissioner to give up his absolute power over the league's personal conduct policy.
The judge-jury-executioner act is played out, and Goodell, who spoke Friday for the first time since levying a two-game suspension against the and Jim Irsay in the coming months, and each of those is now going to be judged -- very publicly -- against this decision. Goodell has put himself in a no-win situation with one of the most tone-deaf decisions of his tenure, and it's only going to get uglier and more complicated for him from here.
The only way out of this mess that Goodell has created is to do the right and fair thing: Step away from the personal conduct policy and get others to come in and at least help him adjudicate it.
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