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NFL conduct policy coming in next month
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The discussions are over — for now — about the NFL’s soon-to-be-updated personal conduct policy. But commissioner Roger Goodell said at the conclusion of the league meetings Wednesday at the Arizona Biltmore that he received good ideas from various executives during discussion of the topic.
Those ideas will help form a policy to be unveiled sometime before the draft in late April.
Goodell has scheduled meetings with a pair of troubled players — Tennessee cornerback Adam “Pacman” Jones and Cincinnati receiver Chris Henry, who just happened to be college teammates at West Virginia — to hear why they have run afoul of the law so often.
Both are expected to receive long suspensions, although Goodell insisted the meetings weren’t a precursor to such.
“We are not trying to send a signal here, we are not trying to just make examples of people,” Goodell said.
“We are trying to protect the integrity of the National Football League.”
NO OVERTIME CHANGE
The proposal to change overtime kickoffs from the 35-yard line to the 30 was tabled after it became clear the rule had no chance to pass as written. Falcons general manager and competition committee co-chairman Rich McKay said “12 or 13” teams had a problem with a change.
The rest of the mostly inconsequential rules change proposals set forth by the competition committee did pass, including giving a 5-yard penalty to players who spike the ball after a nontouchdown play and removing the penalty when a pass hits an offensive lineman unintentionally.
EXTRA POINTS
Both the presentations and the vote for the host cities of the 2011 Super Bowl will take place at the May meetings in Nashville. The Arizona Super Bowl committee will make a bid, as well as Indianapolis and Dallas. Dallas is the expected front-runner. The Arizona committee has plans to bid for the 2012 game if it does not receive the 2011 bid. …
A proposal by the Chicago Bears for teams to expand game-day rosters from 45 to 47 players failed by a vote of 17 in favor, 15 against (24 votes are needed to pass).
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