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NFL Looks To Military On Personal Conduct

By Jack Crosby

Feb 2, 2014; East Rutherford, NJ, USA; Members of the Armed Forces walk off the field after the national anthem before Super Bowl XLVIII at MetLife Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Adam Hunger-USA TODAY Sports
Feb 2, 2014; East Rutherford, NJ, USA; Members of the Armed Forces walk off the field after the national anthem before Super Bowl XLVIII at MetLife Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Adam Hunger-USA TODAY Sports /
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With the amount of personal conduct issues growing in the NFL at an alarming rate, the league is looking into how our military constructs their own policy. 

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While the first half of the 2014 NFL season has been filled with excitement on the field, unfortunately the majority of the focus on the league is directly on off-the-field issues, which seem to be coming in at a rapid, alarming rate recently. Whether it’s drug suspensions or the horrid domestic violence issues surrounding players such as Ray Rice and Adrian Peterson, there is a clear cut personal conduct issue in the most beloved sport in America.

A good amount of focus, too, is on commissioner Roger Goodell, who has been criticized for either turning a blind eye to the problem that’s plaguing the league or just simply not doing enough to rectify it all.

Well, that might not be exactly the case. Goodell and his team might be working more diligently than some people think.

FanSided’s Michael Collins had the chance recently to sit down with former NFL player Chris Valletta, who spent some time in a meeting with Goodell,  where some light was shed on what he plans to do going forward in regards to the personal conduct issues.

Obviously, with the way things are now, the policy needs a complete reconstruction, more or less. It needs to be torn down and built back from the ground up. To get it right, it needs to be modeled after something that clearly works, which is what Goodell and the league are doing.

According to Valletta, Goodell and the NFL executives have looked straight to the personal conduct policy of our military, which is one of the smartest moves they can start with in regards to creating an entire new policy for the NFL.

“We looked at benchmarking other companies,” Valletta told me. “And I know that Goodell and the NFL have looked into what the military does as an option of how to structure the personal conduct policy. “

The dedicated members of our military are some of the more disciplined human beings that you will find on the planet, which is why this is the perfect place for the league to begin.

It’s going to be a long road, piecing a new policy together, but in this case, getting off to a good start is key. Heading off to study the military shows that Goodell and his crew are very much aware of that.

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