NFL Drops the HAMMER on the Saints

[cmd34]

Except for Dallas 'cause we never lay big hits.

big hits, big plays, or big stops. If we had bounties the coaching staff got to keep their money.

 

[Cythim]

What does suspending a GM for 8 games do?

I wonder if he is allowed to take part in offseason/preseason activity or if his suspension starts when the regular season starts? Not having a GM to manage personnel decisions for half a season could be bad for a team.

 

[cmd34]

I wonder if he is allowed to take part in offseason/preseason activity or if his suspension starts when the regular season starts? Not having a GM to manage personnel decisions for half a season could be bad for a team.

Especially since Drew Brees has been Franchised and both parties very much want to work out a long-term deal.

 

[marionbarberthe4th]

Warren sapp saying shockey was the snitch.

Stitches expected

 

[cmd34]

Warren sapp saying shockey was the snitch.

Stitches expected

So Sapp snitched out a fellow Hurricane?

 

[Bonecrusher#31]

Gregg Williams apologizes again for his role in Saints’ bounty program
Posted by Mike Florio on March 21, 2012, 4:59 PM EDT

When the NFL initially announced that it had concluded that the Saints used a system of bounties from 2009 through 2011, former Saints defensive coordinator Gregg Williams (now with the Rams) issued an apology. Now that he has been suspended indefinitely (and at least for a year), he has apologized again.

“I’d like to again apologize wholeheartedly to the NFL, Coach Fisher, the entire Rams organization and all football fans for my actions,” Williams said in a release issued by the Rams. ”Furthermore, I apologize to the players of the NFL for my involvement as it is not a true reflection of my values as a father or coach, nor is it reflective of the great respect I have for this game and its core principle of sportsmanship. I accept full responsibility for my actions. I highly value the 23 years that I’ve spent in the NFL. I will continue to cooperate fully with the league and its investigation and I will focus my energies on serving as an advocate for both player safety and sportsmanship. I will do everything possible to re-earn the respect of my colleagues, the NFL and its players in hopes of returning to coaching in the future.” (At least he didn’t try to call it a “mistake” this time.)

Rams coach Jeff Fisher said earlier on Wednesday that the team was not aware of the bounty situation in New Orleans when Williams was hired in January. If that’s the case, it’s odd that the Rams haven’t fired him.

Perhaps the Rams eventually will. For now, they haven’t.

 

[Midswat]

Whatever, Greg.

 

[Theebs]

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2012/03/21/babe-blog-hooray-for-roger-goodell/

FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – While the New Orleans Saints were handing out money for “cart offs and knockouts,” it was the commissioner who threw the ultimate haymaker. And good for him. And shame on the Saints.

I have said all along that this was a no-brainer that the punishment meted out would be the most severe in NFL history, and anyone who didn’t believe that were either not paying attention or just plain ignorant.

As I stated in a previous blog, the NFL has the potential of having billions of dollars of court cases lined up for the head trauma that the sport inflicts and the NFL’s denial that there was a correlation between the blows to the head and early onset Alzheimers and a myriad of other debilitating consequences to the brain. Their denials were not only silly and disingenuous, they flew in the face of all medical and clinical evidence.

To Roger Goodell’s credit, he has made player safety his number one on field priority.

Most disturbing is the complete lack of respect that Sean Payton and Gregg Williams showed for the game and their profession. They got a little cocky. Actually, got way too cocky. That somehow if you win a Super Bowl, the rules no longer apply to you. Well, turns out they do.

Usually, just about the time that you believe you are above the law, the law hauls you into reality. “I fought the law, and the law won.” And it is a shame, because it will forever tarnish the way the Saints are perceived, and will forever taint their brilliant Super Bowl run, as it should.

Unlike college athletics, where the slimy John Calipari’s of the world are insulated by success….( He is the only coach in NCAA history to have two Final Four runs vacated by the NCAA, U Mass in 1996 and Memphis in 2008) the NFL told Payton etc., al, that the commissioner’s office will have more backbone than university presidents. There are no greener pastures for Payton and Williams and Saints GM Mickey Loomis to move on to. And that is how it should be.

Thank you, Roger Goodell, for trying to restore some integrity to the sport and business of the NFL.

The Saints may not have had respect for the profession that made them wealthy beyond anything they could have imagined, but they will have a little down time to think about it now.

Note: Follow Babe Laufenberg on Twitter @cbs11Babe

(Copyright 2012 CBS Local. All Rights Reserved.)

 

[LAZARUS_LOGAN]

Who Dat?aper

 

[Hoofbite]

They got off easy. Most people figured they'd lose at least a first.

The probably would have but didn't have one to lose this year.

 

[Hoofbite]

Sean Payton stunned by suspension: “I’m not OK”
Posted by Michael David Smith on March 21, 2012, 1:28 PM EDT


Saints coach Sean Payton was shocked to find out today that he has been banished from the NFL for the entire 2012 season for his team’s bounty scandal.

Jay Glazer said on NFL Network that he interviewed Payton immediately after the news came down, and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell’s punishment is far more severe than Payton was expecting.

“I did talk to him and he’s stunned to say the least,” Glazer said. “I think the entire team thought maybe there’d be a four-game suspension, but not a year. I said, ‘Are you OK?’ And he said, ‘No, I’m not OK.’ He is stunned. He’s going to lose about $8 million. He is beside himself here.”

Glazer reports that Payton’s plan for the four-game suspension he had braced himself for was to have assistant head coach/linebackers coach Joe Vitt take over as interim head coach while Payton served the suspension. But that plan is now out the window because Vitt has been suspended six games for his own role in the bounty scandal.

The Saints may now have either offensive coordinator Pete Carmichael or former Rams head coach Steve Spagnuolo, who was slated to replace Gregg Williams as defensive coordinator, step in as the head coach.

Haha.

8M? Damn, that's some coin.

 

[superpunk]

cue Drew Brees holdout.

 

[eagle-9r-sknh8r]

Fuck the Aints the classless Pieces of shit and their fanbase.....Fuck them all! (did i mention i hated the saints and everything about them with a passion) I might change my username to: eagle-9r-sknh8randthefuckingpiecofshitsaints!

 

[cmd34]

Payton paid Williams out of his own salary a few years back and now Williams' Bounties have cost him another $8 million? That's an expensive friendship.

 

[Theebs]

Fuck the Aints the classless Pieces of shit and their fanbase.....Fuck them all! (did i mention i hated the saints and everything about them with a passion) I might change my username to: eagle-9r-sknh8randthefuckingpiecofshitsaints!

I have to say indislike saints and as much as eagles fans and I hope we slaughter them this year and ave a way to end teir season or something this year.

Would love to stick it to all those do knead saint fans..

 

[VA Cowboy]

What does suspending a GM for 8 games do?

I don't know, but I'd like to try it.

 

[Midswat]

I don't know, but I'd like to try it.

lol

 

[SixisBetter]

Not having a GM to manage personnel decisions for half a season could be bad for a team.

Not if it's Jerry Jones.

 

[Midswat]

Payton paid Williams out of his own salary a few years back and now Williams' Bounties have cost him another $8 million? That's an expensive friendship.

They got a ring.

That's priceless.