Everybody knows there was a bounty.
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Actually, no, everybody doesn’t. And for the 233rd time, the hit on Warner was a clean hit, as stated by Warner himself.

robf2010 is correct. Try not to make stuff up.

I think Favre and Warner might feel differently.

None of this is true. The players have never denied that they had a pool. They have never once said they were following orders. They have only denied that they intended to hurt people. Did anyone get hurt? If not, then their claims that they are being punished for the “spoken word, not the clenched fist” are true. This thing should be dropped.

The players’ main defense is to damage the credibility of the witnesses. Childress is likely there to show where the real credibility issues lie. The league has stated all along that they believe there was a PFP/PFI program in New Orleans. They identified that to the owner/management and the program continued but there is no way to know if the players were made aware of the ultimatum. Goodell has said that he believes both elements (PFP/PFI) to be a “bounty” and that triggered the semantics argument.

The players’ stories have changed several times. There was no such program at all soon became we were only following orders. Then it morphed into pay for performance vs. pay for injury and “cart-offs” were just clean legal hits that resulted in a player exiting a game instead of being what the term seems to mean. They boiled down the program to one of intent and then claimed there was no intent at all.

All the while they attacked the commissioner and the process. The players have been inconsistent, not the league. The players demand “proof” because they do not believe there is any. This is not a “legal” action. It is a disciplinary hearing. The rules are different and the “burden of proof” interpretation is not the same as people expect. All the league has to do is prove that its beliefs were “reasonable”. That’s it. The only issue I see for the league (other than a true legal process inserting what “should be” instead of what actually is) is how they singled out the 4 players from the crowd. The coaches are easy to explain but what makes Fujita any different from a player that wasn’t suspended but still participated in the programs?

chili sold out the farm to get favre and went thru over 12 qb’s (so called qb guru) during his tenure in MN & by kissing favres a$$ for 2 years & completely obliviating the o-line the vikes now have the next 5 years to fix his aftermath for what he blew up in 4. he was completely in charge of personell in MN you know from draft to free agency. could not cultivate a qb, blew the o-lineup & let the secondary wither away all in 4 years. he may be a playbook guru but sucks a$$ as a talent scout

Kennedy denies telling him anything and what he witnessed in the NFC Championship game was witnessed by about 60 million. He has nothing to offer except the losing side’s version and maybe some sour grapes.

His drafting of T Jack goes to show the depth of his ignorance. His selling of his soul to bring BrINT Favre to the Vikings was truly shameful and the INT thrown in the Saints game was pure karma to a franchise that is still deserving of truckloads more of it.

Through Childress, the league can contradict the conspiracy theorists. They can establish the bounty investigation was the product of a complaint made to the league by one of its head coaches. It was initiated in the ordinary course of business. Not to serve some ulterior motive or agenda as the players are claiming.

Childress’ testimony regarding, not only what he heard from Kennedy, but what he witnessed during the 2009 NFC Championship Game is quite probative of the league’s intent. Just maybe the league and Goodell don’t have a vendetta against the Saints and the players after all.

Anyone who is a Viking fan today, and understands the teams QB struggles (and who knew six years ago that Tarvaris Jackson was not the team’s QB of the future, knows why Childress is no longer a head coach.