NFL: Saints Bounty Thread

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(12-13-2012 08:23 PM)papachaz Wrote:  ok I'm too lazy to scroll back through the last several pages, but there was a post about the pats and another team, 2007 and 2009 I think it said, both being fined $25,000 for basically running the same kind of a program that the saints were accused of.

what that basically tells me is this, if they had come clean when first accused/approached, they would most likely have had a similar fine, and that would be that. BUT, they lied and tried to hide it, and continued on. call it pay for pain, pay for performance, bounty, whatever the hell you wanna call it. bottom line, if they had come clean, admitted to it then, they would most likely paid a $25K fine and that would have been the end of it....but did they? no, and to me, that's what got them the penalties they got. I do agree with the philosophy that Vilma and Smith were the defensive leaders and should have stepped up and at the very least questioned it continuing.

my thoughts on Hargrove is he just did what Vitt told him to do, but still, be a man and do what you know is right.

As for them thinking what they were doing wasn't wrong??? I call bullshit, I was taught as a child that telling a lie to cover up something someone is accusing you of doing is wrong. If they had come clean in the initial investigation 3 years ago, none of this would have happened

I agree