To Dodge Jerry Jones, Other Owners Speed Up Roger Goodell’s Contract

To Dodge Jerry Jones, Other Owners Speed Up Roger Goodell’s Contract
owners negotiating a contract extension for the league commissioner, Roger Goodell, are accelerating their work, according to several people
familiar with the matter, to quell an insurgent, unusually public threat by Jerry Jones, the Dallas Cowboys’ owner, to scuttle the deal.
In addition to railing against the decision and questioning the way the commissioner
and his staff handled the investigation, Jones began to lobby the compensation committee and other owners to pause and alter Goodell’s new pay deal.
The owners, who agreed in May to extend the commissioner’s contract, are pushing to complete the terms in a matter of weeks to end the public battle with Jones,
who began a campaign to undermine the extension after the commissioner suspended a star running back on the Cowboys over a domestic violence accusation.
As a nonvoting member of the compensation committee, Jones, though, continued to lobby the committee working on the pay package.
But several weeks ago, Jones held a conference call with more than a dozen owners not on the compensation committee to discuss Goodell’s extension
Jones has insisted that Goodell’s deal needs to be restructured to account for the poor way he has navigated the league through recent turmoil, and
that more of his pay should be performance-based bonuses.