I’ll send them the packing boxes if it helps.The COO position was vacant when Goodell was in it, too. It’s uncanny that he got transferred or rather secure a position in a firm doing PR service to the NFL. !Is this a hush job? You think they would’ve updated their playbook since 2002, but I guess not. IMO Leiweke is being groomed to take over the Comish position in 2016.
It pains me to say that as a long-time NFL fan and someone who has experienced so much joy through the sport of football.“The league established a committee to examine the long-term effects of concussions on players’ health, but it released findings that were deeply inconsistent with those of other neurologists.
Paul started at OPR as a director in the Corporate Practice where his crisis work with companies such as Deloitte and McKesson led to his promotion to Head of the Global Corporate Practice and then the Managing Director of the New York office. The NFL cannot tell the truth about any issue. “They went to the press.
Oh no, that played no part in my decision. ”Belichicks first quote in his new position: “We’re moving on to CommunicationsGate.”@whatevnfl–Right on.
Paul Hicks is a Managing Director with The Glover Park Group with over two decades of senior communications and sports experience. As Goodell himself is the former Jets PR staffer, I can’t help but think Goodell himself was behind this – needing a story where Goodell is the good guy against Brady rather than the Bad Guy in the Ray Rice Videogate affairIf I have a PR client who is a habitual proven liar, I drop that client. Clearly the two are world’s apart.why, fire the PR man, he obviously didn’t take a hard enough line! The tactics used against Omalu are eerily similar to those used against Brady: Find some experts to publish a report that supports your position, use the media to discredit real accomplishments and tarnish the reputation of someone who doesn’t fall in line. Clumsily leaked cell phone story to Stephen A Smith. Owners will let Goodell take the hit for the Concussion movie and then move on to Leiweke for a fresh start.
You have to believe that even the owners can’t stand much more of Goodells’ incompetence and drama.Read these two paragraphs from an article in Vox about the new movie “Concussion” coming out in December (or go to the NYT to read about the Sony execs quivering in fear while producing the movie because they didn’t want to anger the NFL) and tell me the NFL isn’t a corrupt, immoral, possibly evil organization. And now a major change is coming to the NFL’s public relations department.It’s also unclear whether Hicks chose to leave, was nudged, or feared that a nudge was coming. Also, Leiweke will assist with day-to-day management and coordination between departments while serving as the conduit between Goodell and those departments.In many respects, Hicks and general counsel Jeff Pash served previously as the conduit between Commissioner and the various departments he supervised.
Paul joined GPG in 2015. Prior to the NFL, Hicks was a regional CEO for Ogilvy PR and worked extensively in its corporate practice for close to a decade. Good riddance the only question is how much scummier the new guy will be.
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Reporting directly to Commissioner Roger Goodell, Paul led the communications, public affairs and social responsibility functions for the league over a five-year period that included a new collective bargaining agreement, several new television commitments, including the launch of Thursday Night Football, and several high profile social responsibility issues.Before joining the NFL in 2010 , Paul was the Regional CEO of the Americas for Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide.
It seems inevitable under Goodell that any change is for the worse.Who’ll take the fall for the #Deflategate fiasco, will it be;It is hard to put a good spin on the garbage that Goodell does…that is a no-win job.So many layers of beaurocracy that nobody feels like they have to make a decision about anything.There you go Roger, shoot the messenger. Paul helped lead 500-plus professionals deliver effective client solutions across two regions and eleven different offices. Kensil might find his next job grooming Wells mustache.I just watched the Frontline report about concussions in the NFL, and the NFL apparently lies about everything. Paul Hicks is a Managing Director with The Glover Park Group with over two decades of senior communications and sports experience. With another layer added between Hicks and Goodell, it’s not surprising that Hicks would decide to move on voluntarily — especially if he sensed that an involuntary parting was inevitable.Oh that dumpster fire….
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It’s seriously good, seriously sharp witted, seriously clever, dripping wet… sarcasm.I hope this is a first in a long line of exits from league office. of communications and public affairs Paul Hicks is leaving the NFL.