NFL: Saints Bounty Thread

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(12-13-2012 02:33 PM)AsylumGuido Wrote:  They were asked if they were placing bounties on opposing players and they told Goodell that they weren't. Goodell told them if you are you must stop. They weren't so there was nothing to stop. They had a performance pool, but that is not at all the same as putting bounties on players for intentional injury.

Two years later an ex-employee fabricates stories about the Saints intentionally targeting players for injury and goes to the league with it. Goodell gets all bent out of shape and feels he was lied to. He wasn't. There was never any bounties. He screwed up.

Yes, the Saints should have stopped the harmless pool, but it did not warrant a full year suspension of a head coach when no head coach in the history of the game had ever even been suspended a single game. Goodell screwed up big time. He has done more harm to the NFL than any little performance pool could have achieved.

I disagree. They knew what the heck he was talking about. His full understanding of what was going may have been fabricated when he came to them in 2009, but there's no reason for Vitt to say what Williams transcripts says he says or for anybody to tell Hargrove to deny anything.