NFL Players Association executive director DeMaurice Smith says Commissioner Roger Goodell "lied" about consulting the players union about changes made to the league's personal conduct policy in 2014.
In an upcoming episode of HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel scheduled to air Tuesday, Smith asserted that Goodell didn't try to gather input from the union before sending the revised policy to owners for a vote.
According to Pro Football Talk's Mike Florio, Gumbel proposed the following question to Smith: "When Roger Goodell can stand up there as he did and say, 'We're drafting a new NFL Personal Conduct Policy.