NFL: Saints Bounty Thread

[AsylumGuido]

(12-14-2012 11:43 AM)ATLBound Wrote:  If you say so, y'all are not totally innocent in this. Whatever pool, if any, the Falcons may have had in 2007 wasn't stopped because we weren't told to by the commish. The big, bad wolf....the egotistical commish gave y'all a chance to stop whatever it is y'all were doing and y'all didn't. Plain and simple. Everybody in the NFL knows that a performance pool is against the rules. And you know that, so no other teams situation is the same as the saints. The reason why is because although everybody may have had a performance pool, nobody had the luxury of being told to stop before being punished. That is why y'all should have stopped. Don't be so naive to think they didn't know there was something wrong with it.

Also if the Falcons had a performance pool in 2007, it for damn sure didn't work.

You got my reply all wrong. papachaz said that Vilma and Smith were at fault because they didn't stop the pool on their own. How could they do that when they were never told to stop it? Yes, the management should have told the players to stop it even if it wasn't what Goodell was referring to back in 2010. For that they are at fault. You can't put the blame on the players at all because they had performance pools everywhere they had ever been. papachaz added this:

Quote: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

The players have all said that they were never informed about any of this until well after the end of the 2012 playoffs. They didn't lie to cover anything up because, like I said, they didn't think they were doing anything out of the norm. They knew nothing about any investigation two years before. The only one that knew anything was Hargrove and he said he was told to tell the investigators that there were no bounties. That was not a lie. There were no bounties. Hargrove never returned to the Saints after that and thought it was all over until he heard about it the same way as all of us.