Comments on: Bounty case settlement conference occurs Monday

By: saintsfaninfla

saintsfaninfla — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 23:51:52 +0000

And Goodell doesn’t even bother to show up at the mediation, so it appears it was a useless exercise from the get go.

By: saintsfaninfla

saintsfaninfla — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 23:49:22 +0000

For those of you that don’t get it: all of the testimonies against the guilty players is confidential and their anonymity was guaranteed by the NFL. All of the impartial investigators that were allowed to review all the data, agreed that the NFL was right. The NFL was not hiding, but protecting the witnesses. Even if the courts rule to get all the testimonies, the players will still be guilty, just the witnesses will be known.
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this is not serious is it? I really hope you never make it on a jury if so.
A person paid to investigate a case and come up with their own conclusions about the facts, credibility of witnesses, (of course in favor of the person paying them) etc., is NOT evidence. Fox guarding the hen house.

What Goodell presented at the hearing was the equivalent of an attorney’s opening or closing statement at trial … that parties wishful thinking of what the attorney HOPES he can prove to the jury. You don’t just take the word of the attorney that tells you what you should believe.

By: geauxjay

geauxjay — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 15:10:17 +0000

All of the impartial investigators that were allowed to review all the data, agreed that the NFL was right
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Say what? The only “impartial reviewer” in the case is on retainer to the NFL, prosecuted the case for the NFL, and said that Anthony Hargrove said “give me my money” because you could see his lips moving.

By: paulnoga

paulnoga — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 14:28:38 +0000

By: ravenmuscle

ravenmuscle — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 14:15:49 +0000

Also when the players agreed to the new CBA they clearly gave Goodell TOTAL power and jurisdiction over player conduct ON and OFF the field..

Now they want to put the toothpaste back into the tube…AIN’T HAPPENIN’

By: ravenmuscle

ravenmuscle — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 14:11:45 +0000

No contest

Goodell wins…Vilma loses

By: bigball1

bigball1 — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 14:03:12 +0000

It is just good that this is moving toward a neutral third party being in the mix. If this was ever handled out in the open without the commissioner basically hiding the investigation, the evidence and then to have actually requested the response from the players BEFORE penalizing them, we would not be in this mess. Acting in a fair manner should not be something that has to be in a CBA.
It is really kind of hard to think how this could have been handled worse……

By: geauxjay

geauxjay — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 13:56:07 +0000

All Goodell has todo is share his “evidence” and this will go away. You can’t just say “I have it” at a point when everything that has been shared or leaked has been proven false.

By: gumerk

gumerk — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 13:45:16 +0000

Win, Lose, or Draw_As a New Orleans Saints fan I want the truth, no matter what that may be.