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Anomaly · 03-26-2012, 06:52 PM

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/201...ral-weeks/

Quote:Roger Goodell: Saints continued lying “into the past several weeks”
Posted by Michael David Smith on March 26, 2012, 6:45 PM EDT

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is defending his harsh punishments over the Saints bounty scandal, saying that the longer the league investigated, the longer the Saints lied about what was happening.

“It’s a violation of a very serious rule,” Goodell said today. “We have made player health and safety very clear as a priority. I have addressed it with owners, head coaches, general managers and all of our personnel several times a year. When this first was raised over two years ago, there were denials. They frankly were not forthright with what was happening. And that continued, and it continued even through our investigation into the past several weeks. So it’s a serious violation of our policy. It is something that has zero tolerance in the NFL. It’s not acceptable to hide the issues, continue to violate NFL policy, put our players at risk. That’s going to be dealt with very harshly.”

Goodell said that the league talked to the Saints the day before they beat the Lions in this year’s playoffs, and Goodell isn’t sure whether the Saints had halted their bounty program even at that point.

“I don’t know,” Goodell said. “Our point was if there is one you better make sure it’s not in effect because we’re continuing our investigation.”

Goodell acknowledged that there have been other violations of the league’s rule against handing out money in the locker room to reward players for performance, although the other violations the league is aware of were nowhere near the same level of what the Saints were doing.

“I think it’s fair to say that non-contract bonus payments have been happening throughout the league more frequently than we would like, and that is going to be discontinued,” Goodell said.

But other teams that had non-contract bonus payments didn’t go as far as the Saints did, and didn’t lie to the NFL repeatedly in the league’s investigation. And after the Saints’ repeated lies, Goodell doesn’t sound like he has any second thoughts about banning head coach Sean Payton for a full year.

AsylumGuido · 03-26-2012, 06:57 PM

I have a feeling this is going to circle back around and bite Goodell in his ass. I hope that congress does get involved.

DemBirds · 03-26-2012, 07:09 PM

(03-26-2012 06:57 PM)AsylumGuido Wrote: I have a feeling this is going to circle back around and bite Goodell in his ass. I hope that congress does get involved.

How would that bite him in the ass? Goodell suspended someone from HIS league. Congress has nothing to do with that. The union would have more power in that instance than congress would. If they get involved it'll be because what was happening was also ILLEGAL.

***phocis850*** · 03-26-2012, 07:22 PM

(03-26-2012 06:57 PM)AsylumGuido Wrote: I have a feeling this is going to circle back around and bite Goodell in his ass. I hope that congress does get involved.

Now that's just stupid. You are smarter than this.

Beef · 03-26-2012, 07:39 PM

(03-26-2012 07:22 PM)phocis850 Wrote: Now that's just stupid. You are smarter than this.

No, he's not. Have you not read the nonsense he's been virtually spamming us with since this all started? He's a living textbook for the 5 stages of grief. His denial and delusions of reality are out of the realm of reason. And he clearly can't help himself either.

It really takes the most abject puerile mind to step so far off the ledge as Guido and say some of the things he has.

AsylumGuido · 03-26-2012, 07:51 PM

(03-26-2012 07:22 PM)phocis850 Wrote: Now that's just stupid. You are smarter than this.

Think about it. The last thing Goodell wanted was congress to get involved. Once they start delving into things it may become to light that there were other things going on elsewhere that were ignored by Goodell. This could get really hairy.

AsylumGuido · 03-26-2012, 07:53 PM

(03-26-2012 07:09 PM)DemBirds Wrote: How would that bite him in the ass? Goodell suspended someone from HIS league. Congress has nothing to do with that. The union would have more power in that instance than congress would. If they get involved it'll be because what was happening was also ILLEGAL.

No. Congress doesn't give a rat's ass about Payton being suspended, nor should they. They are wanting to start digging into what has been happening elsewhere, with King Goodells' knowledge, that was not prosecuted.

It should be very interesting and I can't wait.

Beef · (This post was last modified: 03-26-2012 08:14 PM by Beef.)

You SEE??

Denial - CHECK! We've been spammed out the ass with this stage.
Anger - AND CHECK! Here we go lashing out at the evil king goodell.

Soon we'll have Bargaining, then Depression, and finally Acceptance.

Just watch.

ChrisD · 03-26-2012, 08:17 PM

Guido, seriously? Stop with the "out to get new orleans" cover up conspiracy theories. Its seriously getting old. Im not really sure what is so hard to understand. Your team Cheated, and got caught. Done!

TeamPlayer1 · 03-26-2012, 08:20 PM

After extensive investigation, Congress has recomended that the Payton should be suspended 2 years, the Saints lose their next 2 1st round draft choices and their salary cap is reduced $10 million per year for 3 years.

Oh yeah let's get congress involved. Maybe OSHA should be involved as well with deliberate actions to injure a player.