This will set back this team three years, expect free agents like Grimes to leave, players like Wake to decline under a new system, and Tannehill to likely regress trying to learn a while new system. Fantastic. Three more years of
Losing.
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I'll try and remember this post when i watch the Colts and Chiefs in the playoffs this season.
NFL teams are their own entities. While Goodell is a tyrant, he can only use the power he has been granted by the owners. The league forcing an owner to hire someone he doesnt want to hire would never get approved. No matter what scandal erupts, the owners wont give up that power. It just wont happen. As well, why would the league want to do that? Say the hire goes bad and/or the bad hire is involved in a scandal, the league would be eaten alive.
Just this past year people freaked out when there were no minority hires. Did the league demand a team fire their coach and hire, say, Hue Jackson? Once the hires started happening, did Goodell step in and force the Cardinals to hire someone other then Bruce Arians? Of course not. They made up a committee, drew up new ideas, and stressed the owners need to make those interviews in good faith. Hardly groundbreaking.
The NFL can recommend, but cant enforce. They could suspend/ban Ireland, but they couldnt fire him. Only Ross can. But at the end of the day, it might not be bad idea for Ross to follow the leagues advice. The decisions hes made thus far...i mean, my god, he resigned Sparano, extended Ireland, and hired Philbin who apparently has no earthly idea what happens in his own locker room. If thats the beginning of a trend, im all about the league stepping in.