Comments on: Source: New court filing coming Monday in bounty cases

By: sarkent

sarkent — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 02:10:03 +0000

While there were obviously players involved in the bounty program, I’ve always felt Goodell overstepped by going after some of them. Mainly because “some” is always going to raise the question of fairness. Why are other Saints players who were involved not suspended? What about the players on other teams Williams coached on over the years? You can’t just decide to hold a few people responsible for a larger issue.

He should have just gone after the team officials and called it good when he couldn’t get the NFLPA to agree to penalizing players. I suspect thats where it will all end up anyway.

By: Dave61548

Dave61548 — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 01:19:44 +0000

It’s a shame that some people are content to just listen to the NFL’s original story and call the Saints guilty. If you look at the “evidence” the NFL has shown, it is obvious that Goodel’s stubborn refusal to back down is either his ego overruling common sense or a desperate attempt to keep the “player safety” smokescreen alive for the concussion lawsuits. Or both.

By: butthatmakestoomuchsense

butthatmakestoomuchsense — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 00:30:59 +0000

bobothegreatest says:
Thata right Goodell is trying to ruin football. It seems like the players have no responsibility in this. Goodell must have just picked these guys at random.

I know you’re being sarcastic, but it does seem like Goodell picked names out of a hat.

Goodell suspends Fujita for being part of a bounty scheme, then when he can’t produce evidence of that he just suspends Fujita for a completely different reason.

Reeks of desperation and vindictiveness on Goodell’s part.

By: daknight93

daknight93 — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 00:28:29 +0000

Goodell needs to punt this bounty circus away and move on…he has been fighting the players for 7 long months without physical evidence a bounty program existed..he has an obvious vendetta that he’s obsessed with against the Saints…Goodell has been changing his stories and contradicting himself since the beginning…he reduces suspensions for ex saints players, but keeps same suspensions for current saints players…I hope this silly bounty drama ends soon

By: thelastpieceofcheese

thelastpieceofcheese — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 00:19:51 +0000

These futile legal shenanigans are destined to fail.

I wonder who’ll pay these player’s colossal attorney fees.

By: bobothegreatest

bobothegreatest — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 00:19:32 +0000

Thata right Goodell is trying to ruin football. It seems like the players have no responsibility in this. Goodell must have just picked these guys at random. That figures, he is the type of guy who goes after plenty of innocent Adderall users.

By: sgtr0c

sgtr0c — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 00:11:11 +0000

The sad part is, is that they will never be able to sue their way into more money then acceptting the punishment and getting signed later. They are basiclly all finished to NFL owners. 80% are broke after they played, cannot prove what you could have made on that number. And the only employer hates you.

By: tincansailor981

tincansailor981 — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 23:59:43 +0000

Will it ever end? Ginger Goodell is a rat backed into a corner and he’ll say and do anything to save his butt, and his job. I hope the owners see through the fallacy of his reign of terror and terminate his employment when they meet later this month. This fool has got to go. He’s ruined the sport.

By: iberiasaint

iberiasaint — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 23:36:14 +0000

Stop the tyrant! He is destroying football as we know it and love it

By: domehead

domehead — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 23:34:13 +0000

Agree with the Saints “Pay for Performance” or not…Goodell overreached on this whole thing. This is going to have a judicial resolution. For a lawyer, how could he not see this coming? He debacled (thanks Emmitt) this entire situation completely.