NFL: Saints Bounty System

[mdrake34]

Gonna throw it out there again. i call total bullshit on Benson calling for it to be stopped and then not knowing it continued. TOTAL bullshit. NFL owners know what go on with their teams. Don't believe this for a second.

[swanlee]

(03-05-2012 08:38 PM)phocis850 Wrote:  At the end of this all, the saints will still be the best team in the nfc south

Nope, we were better in 2010, they were better in 2011 but the difference is not that wide. when they get the hammer dropped down on them and you compare us with our new DC and OC I'm sure we will be the better team next year.

[RFlagg]

(03-05-2012 10:10 PM)swanlee Wrote:  Nope, we were better in 2010, they were better in 2011 but the difference is not that wide. when they get the hammer dropped down on them and you compare us with our new DC and OC I'm sure we will be the better team next year.

Gotta agree with you, especially considering possible suspensions on the Saints D. If the hammer drops the way some have speculated (6-8 games), it's going to be tough for the Saints to win half of those games. While people may think that the Saints was bad, just think of how bad the backups (or even 3rd stringers) would be.

[TeamPlayer1]

There could be a harmonic convergence between severe sanctions against the aints and the fact that after 7 years the Gulf Coast is due for another active hurricane season. Who knows?

[mdrake34]

(03-05-2012 10:40 PM)TeamPlayer1 Wrote:  There could be a harmonic convergence between severe sanctions against the aints and the fact that after 7 years the Gulf Coast is due for another active hurricane season. Who knows?

In other news, the last pair of wet socks in New Orleans is finally dry.

[monoxide]

(03-05-2012 10:42 PM)mdrake34 Wrote:  In other news, the last pair of wet socks in New Orleans is finally dry.

I've been playing "Under the Sea" all morning in celebration of the Saints's bounty system.

[Anomaly]

Quote:Saints defender after Favre injury: “Pay me my money!”

Posted by Mike Florio on March 6, 2012, 4:29 PM EST

In a must-read account of the Saints’ three-season bounty system, Peter King of Sports Illustrated shares plenty of intriguing and compelling details. MDS already has highlighted portions of the article relating to Roger Goodell’s reaction to the situation and linebacker Scott Fujita’s position on the subject. But there’s even more good stuff.

During the 2009 NFC title game, which both sparked the league’s investigation and served as the most obvious example of assault and battery of an opposing quarterback, King writes that, after an unflagged high-low hit on Brett Favre resulted in a sprained ankle, an unnamed Saints defender was heard saying on an on-field microphone, “Pay me my money!”

(We know what you’re thinking: The league killed Monday’s re-air of the game on NFL Network because the comment could be heard during the broadcast. Apparently, however, it was a different microphone.)

King also explains that defensive end Anthony Hargrove can be heard saying, “Favre is out of the game! Favre is done! Favre is done!”

Both statements would be strong circumstantial proof of the existence of a bounty program, if the NFL hadn’t already found that the bounty program existed. And King spells out the weekly routine that unfolded during the 2009 season, defensive coordinator Gregg Williams’ first in New Orleans.

On Saturday night, Williams handed out in a defensive meeting envelopes containing payments for big plays and inflicted injuries from the prior Sunday. And the defenders would then chant, “Give it back! Give it back! Give it back!” Many did, which caused the pile of available cash to keep growing.

The bounty system continued even after, as King explains in the Tuesday edition of his MMQB column, former Vikings coach Brad Childress sent to the league video of eight different hits on Favre from that game, the Vikings officially alleged that the Saints had put a bounty on Favre, and Williams, linebackers coach Joe Vitt, and Hargrove denied (i.e., lied about) its existence to investigators. For Williams, the denials (i.e., lies) continued through the middle of February 2012, when Williams was confronted with evidence implicating him as the “ringleader.” Williams, per King, once again tried to deny it, but Williams then met with Goodell to confess.

Williams was back in New York on Monday, possibly to confess yet again (after possibly denying/lying yet again) his involvement in bounty systems in other cities.

King thinks the punishment issued to the Saints and various individuals will “likely dwarf” the penalties meted out for Spygate. The more we learn about the situation, the less surprising that will be.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/201...-my-money/

[RFlagg]

(03-06-2012 06:18 PM)Va Falcon 88 Wrote:  http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/201...-my-money/

And the hole just gets deeper. I agree with King, the Saints penalties are going to be monumental.

[motorcityfalcon]

Saints' Loomis, Payton vow violations will 'never happen again'

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/09000d5d82...ppen-again

[papachaz]

(03-04-2012 09:57 PM)Va Falcon 88 Wrote:  You're a mod, bring the pain.

he did enough of a con job his first year here with decent football talk to be able to get away with trolling all he wants now....

(03-05-2012 11:58 AM)Radical Wrote:  I see no rule violations. I don't really see what he is getting at with his arguments, but no one has been banned here for wonky opinions.

sometimes theres more BS here than a Kansas City feed lot, what he's getting at with his arguments is pure and simple he can come here and spin it however he wants, and even though we all see through the BS, he's still allowed to do things here, when any of us who might try to go to their board and even sign up as a member to try to talk football get insta banned. and i don't agree with the rest of your post either