Comments on: The fine line between targeting injured players and bounties

By: kaferwerks

kaferwerks — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 17:37:25 +0000

you have to wonder why the NFL turned a blind eye on the comments from the Giants players who publicly stated they targeted Kyle Williams because of his concussion history….

By: dr45acp

dr45acp — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 03:19:27 +0000

When I played football, we were all taught at an early age to go & knock the crap out of the guy with the ball….peewee league, jr high & high school….and if you didn’t do it, you were replaced…it’s sbout sending a strong message to the other team that it’s gonna be a dog fight from snap to the whistle….and all players know what the score is….so qiut your belly aching and get on with playing football already….all you whiners make me wanna puke.

By: goodolebaghead

goodolebaghead — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 20:06:21 +0000

Use your noggins, guys. Defensive player1 says off handed to Defensive player2, “Betcha I get a sack on the QB before you do.” Player2 says, “Betcha $1,000 you don’t.” Player1 says, I’ll up that bet, “I bet you $5,000 I not only get a sack but decleat him so hard he doesn’t come back in the game.” Player2 says, “You’re on.”

This wasn’t a bet to hit a guy illegally, draw a $20,000 penalty and put your team back 15 yards. That just doesn’t make any sense. It’s like a boxer betting his trainer $1,000 he can knock the guy instead of a technical knock out. He didn’t claim he would hit the guy below the belt or stomp on his knee. He bet he would crush his opponent legally within the rules.

And that is what was going on. Salary Cap violation. Fine them in the pocket books hardcore, but leave the team intact. Ruining a team’s competitive advantage over a season is detrimental to EVERY fan. Don’t you guys see that? You know how many Saints fans wonder if the Skins would have won if the Saints weren’t hampered? Neither side will really know, because Goodell is trying to make them play with one are tied behind their backs.

All I can say, is there is a 1 in 31 chance your team is next.

By: pongonfl

pongonfl — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 20:02:45 +0000

Kind of a red herring discussion.
The hits on Farve were not legal, They should have been penalized.
The hit that red skins under Williams put on Peyton Manning to stretch his neck out was not legal and should have been penalized.

Why these clearly not legal hits were not penalized is a way bigger story then why the players did it.

By: rhodeislandpatriotsfan

rhodeislandpatriotsfan — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 19:54:49 +0000

Unintended injuries are an acceptable part of football. And while it is true that football is a game of attrition, that attrition need not—and should not—result from the intentional infliction of injuries to opponents. There is no skill to intentionally injuring a player. If the league were to countenance such behavior, the game would quickly devolve into one played by second and third stringers. With skill players like Brees, Rodgers, Brady, Foster, McCoy, Rice, Jones, Johnson, Fitzgerald, Gronkowski, Graham, etc. knocked out of the game, the game would quickly lose its allure. Think about it. Who would want to watch the movie, “The Godfather” knowing that actors like Brando, Pacino, Caan, Duvall, and Keaton were being replaced by a cast of “Mr. Irrelevants?” At the end of the day, NFL fans—not just Saints fans— would be left saying, “WhoDat?”

By: larryjames836

larryjames836 — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 19:52:22 +0000

If we all look at the whole picture all 32 teams are under contract to perform at they best. If you are a defensive player your performance is your job you get pay to hit and hit hard you see the way the 49er’s play they are the hardest hitting team in the NFL and also put players out of the game. But you don’t here the NFL commissioner hounding behind these players nor the people’s and the media but you guys are throwing the Saints under the wheels of a bus. How can a defense like the Saints had get pay-for-performance-to-injury his opponents with the worses defensive team in the league. But the Saints took all the scandals and still trying to over come it and Roger Goodell still not satisfied until he drag they name off the map its going to take a HIGHER POWER to touch that hard heart of Roger Goodell.

By: mitchdms

mitchdms — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 19:31:57 +0000

And fans will continue to be naive.

By: crubenst

crubenst — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 19:15:08 +0000

The question of whether it is wrong or right misses the point entirely. The point is, the NFL CAN NOT allow it. Unless they want to lose their multi-billion business in court. So the league WON’T allow it. And if the players won’t cooperate to help eliminate it, then they’ll watch from the sidelines for a year or so. Get with the program or get off the bus. It’s not 1970 anymore. Its 2012 and the NFL just can’t have it.

By: panamon

panamon — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 18:49:55 +0000

YES, it’s very wrong for players to receive money for legal hits which injure. It’s an incentive to injure clearly, and as we saw against Favre the Saints got away with dirty hits too which looked to be meant to hurt.

When you’re getting money for hurting somebody that’s #1 against the rules and #2 very likely to lead to a difference in how you “cleanly tackle” players. You know, like players who the DC named the serious injuries of as “motivation”.

By: illcomm

illcomm — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 18:49:04 +0000

There is no fine line. Bounties are a blatent preplanned attempt to cause injury for monetary benefit. Targeting n injury is just different. You always want to expose a player for a weakness. If your too hurt to play them you shouldn’t play. if someone ido.hired n you constantly expose em then so be it. But by no means should one player. ever try to intentionally cause an injury to a healthy or already injured player. it is just not right or moral