We’re starting to understand a bit more about the somewhat bizarre feud between Jerry Jones and Roger Goodell. In part, that Jerry Jones is mad because Goodell may have lied to him about the results of the investigation into Ezekiel Elliott.
ESPN reported on Friday that Jones started a flurry of back and forth between the two by threatening to bring ‘everything I have” against the NFL commissioner, in part because of the league’s decision to suspend Elliott six games at the start of the 2017 season.
But now it appears that the impetus for the feud was 100 percent because of Elliott’s suspension, and that’s because Jones was told by Goodell that no suspension was coming.
https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/931532043896356864
ESPN’s Adam Schefter quote retweeted a link to the initial story that was published on Friday and added his own tidbit to the story: that Goodell told Jones initially that Elliott would be in the clear.
Obviously that changed, and it initially seems like that change was well-reported. Additional information in the Elliott case seemed to leak out while the league went through its months-long investigation of the various incidents Elliott was involved in.
That fact might not be enough to assuage Jones, though, who has begun an obvious campaign against a commissioner who once seemed extremely secure in his positive position among owners.
