Jerry Jones changes tune on massive Roger Goodell contract

It’s all fantastic now in between Jerry Jones and Roger Goodell.

While the Cowboys operator as soon as fought Goodell’s described $sixty four million income, Jones seemed just fine with the variety.

“Certainly all those numbers on the experience of them are substantial numbers,” Jones explained on Bob Costas’ HBO exhibit, “Back on the File.” “Roger has been an outstanding commissioner. I may well say that back again when years back when I initially came into the league they would be major numbers. I really do not know for positive what a gentleman of your expertise was producing back again then.

“But I know we could seem at wherever we are currently, and all those numbers have enhanced a large amount during that time. So almost everything has gotten extra as opposed to perhaps what we have looked at in the previous. But I consider this. I consider that Roger Goodell has accomplished an excellent position as commissioner of the NFL.”

When owners gave Goodell an extension in 2017, it was seen as a rebuke to Jones, who was upset around Goodell’s handling of Ezekiel Elliott’s suspension that year.

At just one issue in that saga, there ended up tips that Jones could be disciplined or stripped of ownership.

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, left, and Cowboys owner Jerry Jones talk during a game at Wembley Stadium in London in 2014.
Roger Goodell and Jerry Jones converse during a video game at Wembley Stadium in London in 2014.
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So, factors have occur very a lengthy way.

And even though factors are much from perfect with the NFL — the Washington Soccer Group investigation being the league’s main situation — the owners really do not seem to be to have troubles with Goodell at the instant.