Further, the NFL would be politically incorrect to blame it on the players,...
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The players are like enlisted personnel or other lower level employees. Without leadership, they go bad.
This is a leadership fail.
Goodell and the entire executive level of the NFL is the source of this crap.
As long as any one of those spineless scumbags remain in place, the problems will just fester.
Put real leadership in control and the players will drop the stupidity in a heartbeat... after the worst of them are cut out of the herd.
Good hell is a useless, ill educated (business wise) Bureaucrat with about as much cred as a 3 dollar shoe.