NFL: Saints Bounty Thread

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De Smith is also calling for the transcripts of the hearing to be released to the public.

NFLPA head DeMaurice Smith says he knows New Orleans Saints never placed bounties on players

NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith came out firing at the NFL on Wednesday saying in an interview with "CBS This Morning" that he knows that there were no bounties put on players by the New Orleans Saints during the timeframe of the alleged bounty scandal.

"I'm disappointed in the National Football League and certainly in the way they conducted an investigation because I now know having read and seen all of the testimony that there was certainly no evidence that the bounties existed and frankly, I was a prosecutor in [Washington, D.C.] for 10 years," Smith said in the interview. "I understand how to do investigations. And the investigation that the league did was sloppy, the investigation that they did was more outcome-focused than frankly process-focused."

Smith also called on the NFL to apologize to the players implicated - Jonathan Vilma, Will Smith, Anthony Hargrove and Scott Fujita.

"First and foremost, they should say they're sorry because they've maligned the character of good players and if they certainly believe that they are right, the one thing that Roger Goodell could do is simply release the transcripts and we will all know the truth," DeMaurice Smith said.