Comments on: Report: Redskins, Bills in clear on bounty allegations

By: blackbug99

blackbug99 — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 02:24:30 +0000

Coaches get exuberant and, “Hit them hard, often!” works for me. My issue has always been the offer of extra monies to do that. Shouldn’t they (the players) have had that spark on their own? I guess for some it’s extra cash to make it rain now and then!!

By: sdisme

sdisme — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 02:03:46 +0000

The NFL can’t find independent, multiple corroboration, but without trying how about:

Matt Bowen, Phillip Daniels & Pierson Prioleau

Of course in fairness they only had payments for “kill shots” and payments for hard hits. Not bounties.

By: neauxgeaux44

neauxgeaux44 — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 01:39:14 +0000

Saints will still win the SB…fact..Lombardi #2 confirmed…fact..

By: blackqbwhiterb

blackqbwhiterb — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 01:13:12 +0000

I told you Joe Gibbs was innocent…now don’t you never let me hear you say nothing bad about Joe Gibbs.EVER

By: hulkhogansays

hulkhogansays — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 01:03:53 +0000

GregG put on a good 70 pounds from the time he arrived in DC to the time he finished in NO. Hopefully he never coaches another NFL game ever again brother.

By: domehead

domehead — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 00:27:52 +0000

Yeah…like the league wants bounty headlines in couple more cities. They made their point…in abundance! Everyone else is getting a pass on this one.

By: 1nationraidernation

1nationraidernation — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 00:27:34 +0000

next thing you know team mates will be giving another player a high five for getting a good hit on an opponent….to think that might exist in football is mind boggling

By: rodneyg87

rodneyg87 — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 23:17:11 +0000

no evidence….except for players admitting it and as far as class being in buffalo i remember a couple years ago buffalo fans were sending death threats and lit something on fire in a players yard that made a bonehead play that cost them a game against the pats….real classy

By: andrewfbrowne

andrewfbrowne — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 23:09:01 +0000

Wait, I thought it was a paid for performance program that rewarded clean legal hits that just happened to result in injuries to players, this saying a Bounty program existed in Buffalo and Washington is an attempt to disparage those teams because the league has an agenda against them.

By: arrogantathlete

arrogantathlete — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 22:53:43 +0000

this just in both of their defenses are a joke. no bounties were paid.

By: yourignorancespreads

yourignorancespreads — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 22:52:35 +0000

Yeah I know everyone in the nfl plays perfect and doesn’t get mad and hit players illegally. Oh wait. James Harrison. Buffalos defense under Williams. The eagles whos coach brought in a bounty on someone’s head. Reggie white woulda eatin your leg out there if he could have. The dirtiest hitter in all of football Ronnie lot. So 49 fans stop your crying. I can go on but you don’t hear me crying about when players were literally murdering archy manning. Nope every team had players that played so freakin dirty and guess what that’s football people. Can’t handle it don’t watch. Stop being girls about it and understand that this is what football is. An there was no bounty on anyone and we have do dirty players look at our penalties thank you very much. Please I dare the next person to step up to tell me what team you like. You won’t cause all teams at one point or another had dirty players. End of story oh yeah saints 1 Super Bowl ring maybe we will do it again this year Just to shut you all up. Be men people not crying whining little girls

By: usmutts

usmutts — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 22:46:54 +0000

So, two players who were eye witnesses to Williams’ tactics in Buffalo and DC say it was a bounty program but they are disbelieved by Goodell, who says he has no independent corroborating evidence; and players from New Orleans, also eye witnesses to Williams’ tactics, say it was not a bounty program, yet Goodell disbelieves them, too, though once again he has no independent corroborating evidence.

Goodell suspends one guy for taking prescribed Adderall, but doesn’t suspend another guy for taking prescribed Adderall.

I live in a small city. Illegal drugs are a problem here, like all American cities. We know which wealthy, influential people are doing stuff like coke, yet these are never the ones who get arrested. They just get to go to rehab in some exotic locale.

We like to say that the cops know who to catch and who not to catch. It’s selective law inforcement. That describes Roger Goodell.

By: allinskins

allinskins — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 22:37:48 +0000

Bottomline a upset coach turned into deep throat on the Saints. Without him and the tape there is nothing on the Saints. But people keep forgetting the league got a whiff of this before and warn them and the Saints kept it going. So you reap what you sew. Gregg Williams is done as a NFL coach unless a team that can take a PR hit like the Pats or the Steelers give him a shot a which I doubt. Take your lumps Saints and keep it moving.

By: jason1980

jason1980 — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 22:20:54 +0000

Haha…..Goodell don’t want anymore of this “bounty saga” that he has created. If he could do a “do over”, he would give up his first born to have his reputation back, but that ship has sailed.

By: ShimSham

ShimSham — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 22:10:17 +0000

“What kind of bounty program existed when he was in New Orleans? Only thing shown so far is a pay for performance program, which isn’t a bounty system.”

- Let’s not pretend they’re necessarily mutually exclusive.

By: TheMansiere

TheMansiere — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 22:06:39 +0000

In regards to Matt Bowen, I’m inclined to believe he was “Player X” that ESPN ran stories by last year, and that he has so nicely parlayed into a position at the National Football Post, and you may have to take what he says with a grain of salt because I’m thinking he’s done a bit of embellishing what goes on in NFL locker rooms.

By: jaydog76

jaydog76 — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 22:05:19 +0000

And these idiots actually thought someone was gonna step forward after the way the Saints were basically told to touch their toes??

Come on give us a break already

By: flannlv

flannlv — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 22:02:09 +0000

How could the NFL find there were other programs running bounties? This would ruin the narrative advanced by the league which resulted in unprecedented punishment. It would also demonstrate the violent culture of the NFL which would be detrimental to the NFL defense in the concussion litigation. “I am shocked I say, shocked to find gambling on the premises.”

By: theralph2012

theralph2012 — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 21:55:16 +0000

Of course they didn’t find evidence of a bounty system in Buffalo, although they may not have made the playoffs in 12 years, they’ve always had thing thing called class in their organization. Something those scum bags in the bayou would know nothing about.

By: whitetrashking

whitetrashking — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 21:45:13 +0000

After the fiasco with New Orleans thats what I would have said too…Bet they wish that was their answer when dealing with the New Orleans investigation

By: brenenostler

brenenostler — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 21:35:56 +0000

The same reason only four players were punished out of like 27. But apparently Roger isn’t being fair, according to half of you…

By: cakemixa

cakemixa — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 21:23:56 +0000

What kind of bounty program existed when he was in New Orleans? Only thing shown so far is a pay for performance program, which isn’t a bounty system.