NFL: Saints Bounty Thread

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(09-03-2012 04:34 PM)AsylumGuido Wrote:  No, it should still be no big deal. The Saints were doing nothing that pretty much every team in the NFL does. It should have blown over. But Goodell had an agenda to prove the league was all on board for player safety. And they had what they thought was a goldmine in Mike Cerullo. What they didn't know was that he would do anything to try to bring down Loomis and Payton. He has made it known over the past couple of years that he felt Loomis and Payton had black-balled him from the league.

But, no, it isn't an NFL conspiracy at all. It is a very huge error in judgment by Goodell which he he has done his best to try to mitigate by changing accusations in mid-stream. This was never orchestrated. It has been shoddy to have ever been planned. The investigation has been deemed as "unfair" and "haphazard".

You've found a way to consider payments for knocking people out of the game to be different from payments for injury. Call me a Falcons "homer," but the cognitive dissonance you've been putting on display since the get-go has been amazing. You've been routinely incorrect about how this was going to play out. You started off saying it was no big thing and that it would just blow over, to it was all on Gregg Williams, to saying that Payton wouldn't be suspended any more than a few games, etc.

I've more or less avoided this whole event because it doesn't interest me, and I can't speak for others on here, but I'm thinking that this whole debate is more of you trying really hard to paint the best picture for the Saints rather than me being a Falcons fan wishing for and taking pleasure in anything bad happening to your team. Way too many times I've seen you evoke emotional arguments and responses, place double standards on who is to be trusted, and throw in bits of information or articles that serve to smear Roger or anyone not on the side of the Saints.