NFL: Saints Bounty Thread

[AsylumGuido]

(05-11-2012 11:29 AM)Falconidae Wrote:  No, what they claimed is that the statement did not dispute the existence of a bounty program. From the statement the NFL released about the player suspensions:

"...One player (Hargrove) submitted a written statement in which he did not dispute the existence of the program..."

You are right it didn't explicitly prove the bounty program, didn't disprove it either, which is all the NFL has said.

The most common interpretation of that by media and commentators is that means Hargrove lied [with good reason], but the NFL didn't actually say that.

But Mary Jo also said this in reference to the declaration:

In describing Hargrove's declaration last week, Mary Jo White, a former U.S. attorney hired by the NFL to review its investigation, said the player, "acknowledges the nature of the program and his participation in it, and, which is really the thrust of the declaration, that he was told to lie about it, and he did when he was asked about it in 2010 by the NFL investigators."

Now, we both know that the document clearly does not "acknowledge the nature of the program".

It also clearly does not "acknowledge his participation in it".

It also clearly does not "acknowledge that he was told to lie about it".

There is no way that can be misinterpreted.

So yes, the NFL absolutely DID say that he lied. They totally misrepresented the declaration to the media when announcing the player punishments. The actual declaration didn't surface until later and now Goodell and Ms. White have been caught with their pants down.

There is no way any of you can dispute that fact.

Now, whose credibility might be in question?