It’s safe to say that the way that the NFL handles domestic violence is all over the place. However, commissioner Roger Goodell went on a limb and said that he sees progress in the topic.
The Josh Brown scandal hit the league hard again and it all could have been prevented considering that they had sufficient evidence to not allow him to kick ever again. Just a few days ago, Josh Brown broke his silence and apologized for the whole ordeal. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is putting all his eggs in one basket as he stated that he sees tremendous progress in the domestic violence topic. It’s pretty safe to say that everyone reacted to that statement by giving it a people’s eyebrow.
“What you see here is a policy that’s evolved,” Goodell told Gary Myers of the New York Daily News. “We’ve learned a lot, but these are complex matters. When you talk to the domestic violence experts, these are difficult matters to deal with. You have rights, you have families that you have to be concerned with, privacy issues. Yes, you want to make sure you’re doing everything possible to address these [alleged incidents] when they happen, but you also want to deal with them to prevent them from happening. I think we’ve made tremendous progress. Can we make more and will we make more? Of course.”
Bigger measures are needed considering that Giants co-owner John Mara knew details and still nothing was done. This topic cannot be swept under the rug. He also touched upon Brown’s initial one-game suspension.
“Here’s the issue, the discipline that occurred on the one game was for the event on May of 2015,” Goodell said. “That was the only one that we were able to get of all the different things that we’ve heard. The decision was made by our team after we had the evidence to be able to support the one game. We knew we would get challenged [by the NFL Players Association] and we were able to uphold it.”
We hope that the NFL realizes that their policies need to be more stricter as well act appropriately in a timely manner.