Comments on: NFLPA issues statement on Saints bounties

By: louisianakid

louisianakid — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 02:25:43 +0000

The New Orleans Saints is a very elite team after getting a smart coach and a good defensive coach to teach a team like the New Orleans Saints from years of let downs. To a team that learn how to hold their own on the field knowing how to play aggressive ball like all the other NFL teams. Now the other teams have a problem with the team they always run over every season, now they done rebuild every team is saying they are trying to hurt other players. Complainting to the NFL commissioners because the New Orleans Saints is the WHO DAT NATION meaning who dat say they going to whip them Saints. The NFL and all the WHO DAT haters open your eyes if the Saints were bounty hunters or head hunters if this was the case the Saints should have been playing in the Super Bowl also have the worse defense in the lead. Mr. Goodell knows how far the New Orleans Saints come to be where they at today and the pass years we as Saints fans we understand everybody has a job to do but do it earnestly if the NFLPA want to do they own investigation there’s nothing wrong with that if the NFL just want to make and example out of the Saints because they are one of the top teams in the lead.

By: phuto

phuto — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 05:29:49 +0000

@cleanskip…Then you need to take the pats SBs wins away too they cheated to win and the games were shown to be tainted. I would however would like to see the players list that where players were taken out of the game and changed the outlook of the games. Where as what the pats did had a HUGE out come of the games. Since bellidick learned to read or were told the rules they havent won a SB,so one can say by them cheating was a HUGE advantage and should have their SBs taken away.
Now for what the idiot coach did he should be fined and gone for a year,Payton – fined and gone for 4 games.I am NOT a fan or dislike the saints.

By: boobsmcgoo

boobsmcgoo — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 00:48:37 +0000

cleanskip says:
Mar 7, 2012 8:56 PM
The Saints as a team should forfeit the Super Bowl,there is no place in sports for paid hit men. That is exactly what it comes down to. The personnel involved should also face criminal charges,along with members of coaching staff should be black balled from ever coaching at any level. Members of Pro sports teams are set up on a pedestal and need to be punished like any other person.

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Child, please! Fines, loss of draft picks, suspensions, yes. No criminal charges and the Lombardi Trophy stays right where it is.

By: vetdana

vetdana — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 20:57:22 +0000

I am amazed at how many people think this behavior is a ok! Most former players say it has been going on forever and is just the nature of NFL play. A seemingly majority of people don’t even try to differentiate between plays designed to intentionally cripple a player and plays which are legal according to the rules !It seems that the ends justify the means regardless, of the legality of the play.With this kind of mindset, the current emphasis over the last few years on concussions and player safety seem like a joke !You can be sure Roger Goodell is not laughing !

By: whatigot8

whatigot8 — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:06:09 +0000

No cleanskip, they shouldn’t

Legal hits… Legal. Hits.

By: cleanskip

cleanskip — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 01:56:57 +0000

The Saints as a team should forfeit the Super Bowl,there is no place in sports for paid hit men. That is exactly what it comes down to. The personnel involved should also face criminal charges,along with members of coaching staff should be black balled from ever coaching at any level. Members of Pro sports teams are set up on a pedestal and need to be punished like any other person.

By: chachanola

chachanola — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 01:37:56 +0000

The claim is the people lied. Well didnt the Colts hire the old Ohio State Head Football Coach. People yell integrity but that dude lied in the NCAA. So why would you hire that type of person int your league of integrity. Pete Carroll. so try not to get it to right but you better not get it too wrong either.

By: katrinasafterbirth

katrinasafterbirth — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 00:09:18 +0000

Isn’t Brees a union leader? His rep is even more tarnished…just another hypocrite…he’s never cared about his “fellow” union members, all talk.

By: steviemo

steviemo — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 23:38:08 +0000

You left out the last paragraph: “Meanwhile, we are fighting tooth and nail to ensure that our players can use HGH for several more years.”

By: whatigot8

whatigot8 — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 23:37:00 +0000

where is the evidence that they caused intentional injuries? show me the link maybe?

By: bloodybean74

bloodybean74 — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 23:36:55 +0000

Gotta love how the nlfpa tries to put the blame on the coaches and management but not the players that tried to hurt opponents. Sounds like b.s. to me.

By: jenniferxxx

jenniferxxx — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 23:31:52 +0000

NFLPA = dirtbags. The same guys who do their best to block PED testing now want to cover for players causing intentional injuries. Priceless …

By: crabboil

crabboil — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 23:28:57 +0000

Flag football.

$1000 bounty if you act like you’re going for the flag but then “accidentally” pants the quarterback.

By the way, the Vikings still won’t win ****!

By: vbe2

vbe2 — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 23:26:35 +0000

Both Payton and Williams should be banned for life for sponsoring and allowing this to take place.

They can NEVER be trusted in the NFL again.

By: nineroutsider

nineroutsider — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 23:25:06 +0000

ajsjr40 says: Mar 7, 2012 6:08 PM

The organization, coaching staff and management team will get very harsh penalties. Players will be hand slapped.
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As it should be. I think the league does a great job of dealing with player misconduct. In the case of the Saints though, I feel the players should receive the least amount of punishment for this coach instituted program. Williams, Peyton, and Loomis, should be the ones who receive the harshest discipline along with the entire organization.

By: nflofficeadmin

nflofficeadmin — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 23:24:53 +0000

That mouth is begging – someone please stuff a large kilbasa between my gums.

By: whatigot8

whatigot8 — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 23:23:29 +0000

“If the facts prove that players voluntarily and willingly participated in conduct that jeopardized health and safety”

Since the inception of football, as reported by players, players have funded players’ making good football plays.

Calling it a bounty system has been a media thing. It’s nothing but a pay for performance system that has happened forever. Punish the Saints for that, not for what everyone calls a ‘bounty system’

By: cured76

cured76 — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 23:20:35 +0000

They represent the players; as noted on this site they are representing both the players injured and those getting paid for the big hits. It’s a tight rope for them in that regard. But the coaches and other team staff that had their part in it will be the ones caught in the NFLPA cross-hairs. That means Loomis, Payton, and Williams can expect to get the brunt of all the punishment, notwithstanding the forfeiture of draft picks the Saints could be looking at.

By: staugslugga

staugslugga — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 23:18:36 +0000

Haha so they’re going to come out and say that they violated salary cap rules and such. Player safety wasn’t compromised by legal hits. Sorry media and your agenda.

By: capslockkey

capslockkey — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 23:16:58 +0000

Much more interesting when you read it in your head to the voice of Jackie Chiles.

By: f16fighterjet

f16fighterjet — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 23:09:25 +0000

Yeah… next year I hear their going to do away with tackling, their going to call it flag football.

By: ajsjr40

ajsjr40 — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 23:08:27 +0000

The organization, coaching staff and management team will get very harsh penalties. Players will be hand slapped.

By: reebs33

reebs33 — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 23:05:02 +0000

Cannot stand this lawyer-speak. If the player’s union is trying to position this as a program that the coaches instituted purely on their own and that the players were merely following orders, then they should hang their heads in shame.

By: bearsstillsuck

bearsstillsuck — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 23:04:52 +0000

They’ll get on it right after they finish up dealing with the hgh problem.

By: bigjdve

bigjdve — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 23:01:40 +0000

What safeguards are you going to put in place?

You’ve been blaming the NFL for safety concerns, while your members have been intentionally trying to damage other member’s safety.

This should be good.

By: udtfrogmanvet

udtfrogmanvet — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 23:00:41 +0000

I love the picture of De Smith. “Insert Johnson here.”