It should be the same as when pats got cheating, they got a slap on the wrist so should Williams.
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This is a funny post.

No a WRIST SLAP is what YOUR TEAM got from Tags for circumventing the salary cap for 2 years. You know, the two years your team got trophies.

Williams should get a year at most. If anyone is interested in hiring him after that, they should be welcome to do it. Remember, THEY LET CONVICTED FELON VICK back in…and he was convicted of GAMBLING RELATED CHARGES. If they ban Williams, Payton etc longer than that, despite their “FO has a higher standard” mantra, I think they are playing with fire.

I’ve always disliked Williams, but I’m surprised at the Payton/Ornstein connection with this. I know SP is a bit of a maverick but I am surprised he would allow this to get pushed so far.

If they’re gonna penalize the Saints franchise, they better do the same to WAS/BUF/TEN.
Leave the franchise alone, that just screws with the fans. Penalize the folks responsible for it in a harsh manner and move one.
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Is this all not as much the fault of Payton than it is Williams?
Who did Williams report to? Same person that was RESPONSIBLE for Williams>>>>>Sean Payton
Shocked if Payton coaches in the 2012-13 season.

bucfaninil
really, I understand some harsh punishments are coming and are deserved. but the last thing that the NFL wants is another team out there with the fan support the bucs have. Take that much away and there will be as many people at Saints games as there are at the Bucs home games. And the NFL does not want that to happen.

And it is cute that you Buc fans are the ones calling for these sorts of punishments. Possibly worry about the Panthers who are going to be the real killers of this division for a while. I am sorry that they have Cam and you have Freeman. My Saints are probably cooked for a while because of this. But to make them non competitive for the next 6 to 10 years for this? Not going to happen.

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Which scratches the surface of that topic “the fix is in”. Also, touches on how the Saints went after a bunch of personal records this year outside of the ‘done way’.

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Dude, you really need to get to Vegas more. Virtually all major sport betting is done based on a point differential and not on “odds”. While there are good teams and bad teams, they are not as far apart as they seem.

Only major (if it even qualifies as major anymore though) sport I can think of with “odds” betting is boxing.

It was mentioned that if he is banned for life, there could be an anti-trust violation. How so, isn’t that why there is a CBA so that there isn’t anti-trust issues?

Also there is precedent that if you are found guilty of a crime against a profession of being made UN-hireable by the entire profession. Just look at the financial services industry.

Cute.

During a NFL Network broadcast I watched just a few minutes ago of the Steelers-Seahawks Super Bowl, a Seattle coach was heard telling his players about the Steelers’ Joey Porter, “Take him out”. I’m sure he meant to say “for dinner and dancing” but never got around to it. This whole thing is horsepuckey.

Fortunately for the NFL, if they do ban Gregg Williams and he does bring a lawsuit against the NFL, they can simply turn over the findings of their investigation and let the federal, state or even local governments seek charges against him. The downside to that is the obvious negative impact both directly and through public appeal on the NFL.

There is a common way of approaching these situations. I may do wrong but when you cross the line on me i will cast aside my fear of my guilt and any punishment it may bring and make known to all every thing you have done whether it incriminates me or not because what i did was nothing to what you tried doing to me. The NFL probably knew about this for a long time, maybe even technically protecting other people, in the past, for the good of the NFL in their eyes. But once they tried going after a publicly outed Gregg Williams, if he retaliates by bringing a lawsuit or really anything else, they can say screw you to him and release everything they have, even if it eventually brings bad things thier own way. Because the fact is he is the bad guy. Or at least the much worse of whoever is guilty in this.

mataug says: Mar 11, 2012 7:01 PM
The thing that really bothers me about the episode was that convicted felon (Mike Ornstein?) providing bounty money. I am just speculating here because Vegas may have been behind that and I have a feeling the NFL does not want to really investigate that part of this mess any further because the feds will definitely step in for stuff like that.
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I have been saying and printed this several times but they take it off because its true. The entire NFL (all 32 teams) are in organized crime beting each week and play offs to the SB.
Las Vegas beters (mafia bosses) bet millions on these games.When the strong team gets the odds up, the games are fixed (paid off) to let the weak team win. Hell with 5:1 odds and you bet a million they get 5 million in pay off.

Loss of Franchise Tag, and ability to tender RFAs and ERFA’s until 2015 season

harsh… cruel…. long-lasting

then write it into law the next offender has twice that penalty… any repeat offender loses their franchise and $500 million fine

harsh penalties are the only good penalties

Just think– if the Steelers’ James Harrison was caught ONCE giving a teammate $20 for a good hit, he’d be banned for life.