First, this challenge is about due process; no man in our great country should be denied due process, period. First, the coaches were summoned to New York without prior knowledge and were told sign am admission of your guilt or else (you’re out of football). Then, the league had either refused or reluctantly turned over only some evidence without given the accused the opportunity to examine, question, and challenge said evidence. If this had happened to you, or your team officials, you’d feel different; but, because most of you or blinded by your loyalty to your individual teams, you’re operating with your heads in the sand…

Second, this is about the NFL gaining evidence that it’s not harboring an unsafe work environment for its contracted employees; for years the Sabol Media Machine (God Bless him and be with his family) has put out great entertainment with such productions as NFL’s Crunch Course which the League has greatly profited from – now the League wants to be able to say when the Judge comes “No Yo Honor, it wasn’t us – they were doing it to themselves…”

What is makes this whole situation ludicrous is that you have had current, former players of other teams say on public broadcasts they didn’t see the big deal as the accusations are commonplace practice around the league (i.e. Washington, Chicago, Buffalo) and nothing is being done about it there – if you’re going to implement and enforce rules – they should be applied to all teams and personnel equally – otherwise, throw out the hypocrisy…

That note is extensively forged and edited. I can’t believe the NFL actually thinks the public is this gullible. Props to the guy who discovered this.

Some of us aren’t so stupid, Roger.

I don’t think anyone disputes that there was a “pay for performance” system under Williams. So of *course* the players would confirm “many of the key facts” because there is a great deal of factual overlap between between “pay for performance” and “pay for injury” systems. The players’ position is clear – that they did NOT cross that line from performance incentives to injury bonuses.

I’m a Saints fan. I want to know specifically what evidence the Commissioner has that the players crossed the line. As this investigation has unfolded, more and more doubt over the fairness of the league’s process AND the credibility, weight, and accuracy of whatever evidence it has. I want to know why two current players who could be making a difference in what looks like a lost season for the Saints can’t take the field. Show us the damning evidence and the fans will stop complaining!!

Absolutely amazing evidence has been uncovered of this NFL manipulation and creation of “evidence”.

The NFL is so inept that they left the digital layers on the PDF document they created and you can digitally peel back the layers to see the alteration of the “evidence” the NFL has presented.

Expect a total bombshell on this to break sometime today.

This may very well lead to the firing of Roger Goodell.

With Fujita, he said you weren’t part of the program BUT as a team captain and safety rep for the Union – you did nothing to stop it so your conduct is detrimental to the league. 1 game – that has nothing to do with salary cap violations and he isn’t being accused of being part of the program he should just take it and be done, I mean what he said when that tape came out that he should’ve said more?

With Hargrove, he is a free agent, 2 games more and he is done with his suspension and can hope to get a job again. If he fights this, then he most likely won’t have any chance to get a gig until the suspension is over and how long will that take?

The other 2, well they wouldn’t go down without a fight but I think that they eventually lose this one because there is a distinction, and wouldn’t it be funny if the arbitor Burbank fines them for the salary cap violations and rules that the suspensions are within Goodell’s jurisdiction?

Re-watch the 2010 NFC championship Vikings-Saints game; the Saints were trying to kill Favre (I remember making that remark when watching the game live back). A bunch of late hits that went uncalled could have changed the result. Look at pics of Favre’s ankle afterwards. That’s some proof of intent to injure IMO.

Trust me, the league has the proof, and the fact of the matter is that you don’t cross Goodell. And if you do he brings down the hammer. I like that! Make these guys accountable as they are not bigger than the game itself!

But the NFL keeps bringing up Gregg Williams hyperbole. Good thing Goodell wasn’t a military man, he would have been scared to death of some of the hyperbole the military uses.

LA is a better place for the NFL than La. Just common sense.

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Seriously, what else do you need to know? Anyone still defending these players looks just as bad as they do. The players need to accept their punishment before they make themselves look even worse, if that’s even possible.

I guess we know that coaches that ran this thing are in the inside with Goodell while the players who were going along with a their coaches are the scapegoats.

Goodell is a joke, it will only be a matter of time until is arbitrary justice burns your team to. Players, fans… stand up!

Owners, this guy is a tool… you will still make your billions without him, he is riding a rising tide.