drbretto said:
This entire post is exactly what he means by "getting the lawyers out of the room". You missed the spirit of that entire paragraph and you're parsing everything literally. The quote was purely philosophical and is not worth anyone's time to try to dig any deeper. He's not saying they literally shouldn't have lawyers. He's saying he can't have a conversation with Goodell and get this shit resolved because he's got lawyers whispering in his ears.
He's not missing the meaning, he's disagreeing with it.
With no lawyers in the room, Goodell's word reins supreme. The Patriots got fucked because lawyers aren't allowed in the room, not in a practical or functional sense anyway. That's the grand irony of Kraft's statement.