With his quarterback locker in a seemingly never-ending battle with the NFL, New England Patriots President Jonathan Kraft thinks it might be time for a change.
During his pregame interview with 98.5 The Sports Hub, Kraft explained why he thinks the league's policy on player discipline needs to be adjusted to accommodate changes in today's world.
"The personal conduct policy and how discipline would be handled by the commissioner started under [former commissioner] Paul [Tagliabue] and was strengthened under Roger," Kraft said. "You have to look back to the middle part of the last decade when the real premise of how it's done was created.
"I think the world has changed and the complexity of some of the situations -- things that I don't think we ever thought we would be dealing with, we're dealing with."
Kraft made sure to make it clear that he was speaking about “the seriousness of a lot of the other issues" and not just the punishment handed down to Tom Brady.
“There probably needs to be a rethinking so that the league office and the Commissioner aren’t put in a spotlight in a way that detracts from the league’s image and the game,” he continued, “even if the league office is doing the right thing, or the wrong thing, or whatever you think. It probably needs to be rethought for the modern era that we’re in and the different things that are coming up that I don’t think people anticipated and how the public wants to see them treated.”