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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
Yup hope he has a full recovery.
It's why it pisses me off when stuff like the Gronk play only gets a 1 game suspension though.
That play could have easily badly hurt a guy, or broken somebody's neck, it wasn't a football play, and clearly an intent to injure. 1 game suspension.
Not a fan of Jones but I tend to agree with him that Goodell is a joke of a Commissioner, and should be replaced.
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I don't love Goodell but I don't think he's just sitting in an office all by himself making the rulings. The NFL likely has lawyers that specialize in the rule book that are advising how much they recommend and they also have to consider appeal, history of the player, past suspensions for similar acts, etc. There's a lot of moving parts and I imagine they felt if they gave Gronkowski two or more games that it would have got appealed back down to one. That said this was an oddball infraction as you don't normally see that type of late hit so they could have made this one as an example going forward and give him a stiffer fine.
In general I find the NFL much more consistent than say the NHL which works on a tiered system where star players are not treated the same as regular players. In the NFL they don't care if you are Tom Brady or Joe Blow as they will come down hard on you if they feel you broke the rules.