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The Chain of Responsibility in the Josh Brown Debacle

The MMQB weekly columnist Andrew Brandt looks at whether Roger Goodell's reputation will be affected by the Josh Brown situation.

It’s déjà vu all over again for the NFL and one of its teams. We are reliving 2014 as the chilling specter of domestic violence infiltrates the NFL in a public and uncomfortable manner. Now, instead of the Ravens and Ray Rice as the key protagonists in this drama along with an unenlightened NFL, the characters are the Giants, Josh Brown and (what we thought to be) an enlightened NFL.

The script from the eight-part Rice and Brown episodes is the same:

Part I: An important player on the team is shown to have an incident (or incidents) of domestic violence with his future wife or ex-wife.