Buftex Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 Suggested steps for Saints franchise: 1) Trade Brees (and anyone else you can) for unGodly amounts of picks to recoup the ability to build 2) In doing so and also w/ coaching frenzy expect to tank, and tank hard revealing New Orleans wont' go to games unless the team is real good 3) Sneak out of garbage heap that is New Orleans and settle in a new cozy stadium in LA 4) Rebuild to a patient and ecstatic fan base that just got a team back, in a town FA's will want to come to 5) Profit from all this. Help Bills stay in WNY along the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RealityCheck Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 So how does this work? Goodel gets 20 grand for this if my math is right? That's 2 kill shots and 1 cart off. I just can't stop laughing over the indefinite irony. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papazoid Posted March 22, 2012 Author Share Posted March 22, 2012 taking this in another direction..... apparently Warren Sapp has outed the original "snitch" as Jeremy Shockey.....which PFT says is wrong.... but, everyone in the "snitches get stitches" crowd...like warren sapp and roddy white, just to name a few.....are just as bad as Greg Williams, Shawn Peyton and all the players who participated in the bounty. players worried about their own safety is a joke.... wether shockey did it or not, he's screwed, he's a free agent and will not be picked up. he is toxic. i hope shockey sues sapp for lost wages, defamation...etc.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 If the bounties were a "players only" thing, it's too much. If the coaches were actually paying bounties, it's too little. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truth on hold Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 (edited) I applaud Goodell for metering out these punishments, Payton and the rest of the Saints thought they were "the chosen" franchise and above the law. Goodell showed them they're not, and by doing so provided an unbiased approach, something we all want out of our leaders. I hope Greggo is never reinstated. He's simply disgusting. Edited March 22, 2012 by Joe_the_6_pack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papazoid Posted March 22, 2012 Author Share Posted March 22, 2012 If the bounties were a "players only" thing, it's too much. If the coaches were actually paying bounties, it's too little. players and coaches from the saints were investigated previously, told to stop and they all continued. “Clearly, we were lied to,” Goodell said. “We investigated this back in 2010, we were told it was not happening, it continued for another two years until we got credible evidence late in the 2011 season and we were able to identify significant information that verified from multiple sources that this was going on for a three-year period.” http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/21/roger-goodell-stands-by-saints-suspensions-we-were-lied-to/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Who is Yuri? Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 Nice to see Goodell sending the message that the NFL isn't actually the Mafia, and the players aren't actually engaged in warfare. The football world tends to take itself too seriously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaccof Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 taking this in another direction..... apparently Warren Sapp has outed the original "snitch" as Jeremy Shockey.....which PFT says is wrong.... but, everyone in the "snitches get stitches" crowd...like warren sapp and roddy white, just to name a few.....are just as bad as Greg Williams, Shawn Peyton and all the players who participated in the bounty. players worried about their own safety is a joke.... wether shockey did it or not, he's screwed, he's a free agent and will not be picked up. he is toxic. i hope shockey sues sapp for lost wages, defamation...etc.. No sense of omerta with these new players today, ey? Oh well, if you read the posts at the Times-Picayune site on this you'd swear the NOLA fans had never won a super bowl...bunch of whiners.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HalftimeAdjustment Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 Good choice of punishments. Waiting to see what's done to players (probably not that much, except for Vilma). As for people asking why Belichek was not suspended - the question is, did he lie about it to the league? I think Payton got suspended big time not just because of the injuries, but because he lied to the league, and because he associated with a known felon who paid into the bounties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoCal RN Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 Wow! It's kinda like the SMU "death penalty" from the NCAA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoSaint Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 Good choice of punishments. Waiting to see what's done to players (probably not that much, except for Vilma). As for people asking why Belichek was not suspended - the question is, did he lie about it to the league? I think Payton got suspended big time not just because of the injuries, but because he lied to the league, and because he associated with a known felon who paid into the bounties. a known felon that defrauded the nfl for hundreds of thousands. it had to bring a little extra to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bud Adams Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 I hope Greggo is never reinstated. He's simply disgusting. This. The only part of the ruling that REALLY pisses me off is that this scumbag wasn't banned for life immediately. Otherwise, I think the punishment fit the crimes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bklnpete Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 My link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoSaint Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 My link Honestly, I'm somewhere in between. I think a lot of networks are just applauding it because they know what's good for their NFL future. That said, it's not far out of line. I'm just surprised about the length of the Peyton suspension so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bills!Win! Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 I wonder if Jimmy Graham had a bounty on Sean Payton when he plowed him over on the sidelines... Haha... just had to let that one out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truth on hold Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 Probably from Greggo thinking he'd become HC lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CodeMonkey Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 Nice to see Goodell sending the message that the NFL isn't actually the Mafia, and the players aren't actually engaged in warfare. The football world tends to take itself too seriously. Take itself too seriously? Super Marios new contract pays him 1 million dollars per regular season game and half a million per regular season game guaranteed. Seems pretty serious to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FleaMoulds80 Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 (edited) So, why didn't Belicheat get suspended for spygate? Seems like that was at least equally unethical. They're NOTHING CLOSE to being equally unethical. One was videotaping hand-signals. The other is paying his players to injure players on purpose. I see no similarities here and this was a pretty ignorant comment. Goodell did a great job IMO of handling this whole situation. Edited March 22, 2012 by FleaMoulds80 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramius Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 Is Sean Payton's suspension one season, or one calendar year? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truth on hold Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 Is Sean Payton's suspension one season, or one calendar year? Starts April 1st Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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