Not good news for Saints - Sean Payton suspended for 2012

[P_Manning 18]

WOW

 

[RITM]

GM gone first 8 games. Gregg Williams suspended indefinitely.

Mentioned in the Daily that I totally expected the penalties to exceed Spygate. This makes Spygate look like a minor offense.

 

[mstng99tim]

Some information about it.

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/77181 ... r-bounties

 

[schmidtfan20]

Goodell finally grew some balls.

 

[LazerShow15]

Technology will keep him coaching believe me, no way he will not be in the know with this team.

 

[mstng99tim]

Technology will keep him coaching believe me, no way he will not be in the know with this team.

Just imagine the penalty if he/they get caught doing what you just mentioned, I doubt they would want to risk it.

 

[19braves77]

I think that this is something the team will rally around. The two 2nd round picks isn't bad, I was expecting worse. Losing Payton for a year is tough but Carmichael called the plays last year after Payton hurt his knee and Spags is more than capable of stepping into the interim HC/DC job. We'll be fine.

I do think that within the next week, the front office needs to make a strong push to get Drew signed to a long term deal so he can show his support for the team and Coach Payton.

It will make it all the more sweeter in the end when Goodell has to hand us the Lombardi trophy in New Orleans at the end of the season.

 

[rsmath]

Technology will keep him coaching believe me, no way he will not be in the know with this team.

Just imagine the penalty if he/they get caught doing what you just mentioned, I doubt they would want to risk it.

I can see it now - 17 year old girl caught calling the shots for the Saints (Payton in internet chat using an alias of a 17-year old girl).

 

[bcubs]

I think they got it right with the penalties.

 

[SilverandBlack]

They had to make an example out of the saints to show other teams that this won't be tolerated. I also think the fact that they were told by the commish to stop and just ignored his warnings lead to a very severe penalty

 

[hive17]

GM gone first 8 games. Gregg Williams suspended indefinitely.

Mentioned in the Daily that I totally expected the penalties to exceed Spygate. This makes Spygate look like a minor offense.

Actually, the penalties and the commish's office made it look like a minor offense.

 

[gt2590]

Just heard Jabari Greer do a live interview on SC where he hinted that IF :lol: hte bounties did happen, these guys are still Professionals, upstanding members of the Community and it didn't affect their games on the Field.

He obviously thought the penalties were too severe, and should have only been "off-field" stuff, I guess he meant fines, etc. :?

Man, did this interview make him look bad...

 

[gt2590]

Also, "Schefty" is reporting that Goodell has sent out a Memo that requires GMs and HCs to certify in writing that there are no Bounty-type programs in place on their teams.

Now this won't help a bit for any past problems, but IF they find reason to not believe these guys Certified letters, then Oh boy, will they get a harsher penalty...

 

[lisu]

Makes me wonder if Drew Brees is going to leave the Saints.

 

[Card Magnet]

I can't believe Sapp says the snitch is Jeremy Shockey. Shockey was very outspoken that there's no way there was a bounty program when the news first broke. I guess that's what a snitch would do, but I still don't want to believe it.

 

[HEAVYHITTER]

The penalty is ridiculous.

Just because you want to"make and example" out of someone doesn't mean you did the right thing.
I bet if he dug into the rest of the league we wouldn't have football next season.

GODell should be fired.

 

[HEAVYHITTER]

When should we expect to hear from GODell about Suggs getting suspended for a year when he said a few years back that they had a bounty on Hines.....

Today was not a good day for the NFL. The man behind the curtain just pulling the strings, and abusing his power..

 

[mwashuc06]

How longer until we have flags or two hand touch....

 

[Shi Guy]

People are naturally going to despise the authority, but in this case I don't think it's warranted. For the bounty program on it's own the punishment seems too severe, but when you take into account the cover up that took place it seems just right in my opinion.

 

[RITM]

Obviously the powers that be have more information than I do. They must have some quality info to make the punishment this big.