Some punishment finally came to the Saints organization this week. Here is a list of the punishments as far as I can tell: 1. Lose Head Coach for the whole season (Good) 2. Lose Assistant Coach for 6 weeks (wasn't he as responsible as the head coach?) 3. 500,000 dollars in fines (Fine) 4. Loss of 2nd round draft picks for 2012 and 2013 seasons (Second round seems slightly obscure, but fine) 5. GM suspended for 8 weeks (All suspensions are without pay, Good) 6. Greg Williams suspended indefinately (Get him out of the league forever please) 7. Garbage about making sure kids don't do the bounty thing (too little to late?) I think that these punishments are basically in good order, but I do hope that when individual punishments come to the players involved that they are "harsh", the NFL needs to take a strong stand on this to keep this bounty program from spreading. Particularly Johnathan Vilma, who offered 10,000 dollars for a knockout hit on Brett Favre! That is just sick, and a discrase to the sport.
Drew Brees tweeted about the suspension of Sean Payton saying, "I am speachless. Sean Payton is a great man, coach, and mentor. The best there is. I need to hear an explaination for this punishment." Ok, here is your explaination. Sean Payton was told by the NFL to end the bounty thing before it got out of hand, it clearly didn't matter to him, because here we are and now it's caught up with him. In 2009-2010, he tried to cover it up when the NFL started an investigation, that was 3 years ago! The New Orleans Saints won a super bowl that year, and the system continued anyway! Over the course of his career he has shown a blatant disregard to the NFL, and it's policies, ranging from being late to important interviews, to accepting drugs from assistant coaches (not confirmed). So there you go!
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