What we are seeing with the NFL now is a league getting a lot of its disciplinary punishments right. You may not want to believe that but it's true. Two cases in point: Aldon Smith and Johnny Manziel.
Aldon Smith has been, quietly, one of the league's largest headaches, a sort of Greg-Hardy-lite. The list of accusations is long and troubling: arrested for DUI, hit-and-run, vandalism in one incident; accused of telling a TSA agent at Los Angeles International Airport, after being pulled aside for additional screening, that he had a bomb; other DUI arrests; weapons charges.