Saints getting rocked

[slickdawg]

That's not just harsh. That's as close as the NFL can get to capital punishment. Especially when you consider the penalties against Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots in 2007 when the Patriots were caught blatantly cheating and lying about it.

Belichick was fined $500,000, the team $250,000, and the Pats lost one first-round pick.

It's wrong to reward hurting players intentionally. It's even worse to violate the integrity of the game. Yet one coach gets a slap on the wrist, the other gets close to the death penalty. The message is clear:

Promote an environment to reward players for intentionally hurting other players and lie to the NFL about it? Death Penalty

Promote an environment to cheat, even against teams you would beat by 20 anyway, lie to the NFL about it, pay $500K and see you in the playoffs.

 

[JackShephard]

because every time i hit somebody, i wanted them to get carted off the field. And nobody had to offer me any money for that.

 

[Rosebowl.sixpack]

While I do not condone what the Saints were doing, I wouldn't say the "bounty" program was in place to intentionally try to end anyones career. The programwasin place to encourage the defense to play physical and toputbig hits (legal variety)on opposingball carriers when given the opportunity. A player was "fined"and required to put addtional funds in next weeks "pool" for any flags or other mistakes made during the game, which I think would discourage any blatantly dirty attempts to injure a player. I am assuming just about every Defensive Coordinator encourages this type of behavior, the difference is they aren't stupid enough toset up a cash pool as a reward.

 

[JackBauer.sixpack]

That's not just harsh. That's as close as the NFL can get to capital punishment. Especially when you consider the penalties against Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots in 2007 when the Patriots were caught blatantly cheating and lying about it.

Belichick was fined $500,000, the team $250,000, and the Pats lost one first-round pick.

It's wrong to reward hurting players intentionally. It's even worse to violate the integrity of the game. Yet one coach gets a slap on the wrist, the other gets close to the death penalty. The message is clear:

Promote an environment to reward players for intentionally hurting other players and lie to the NFL about it? Death Penalty

Promote an environment to cheat, even against teams you would beat by 20 anyway, lie to the NFL about it, pay $500K and see you in the playoffs.

in the reprecussionsof those two scenarios. Scenario one will result in a class action lawsuit against the NFL. Scenariotwo did not.

And I do think that Belichick should have been suspended, but it is very clear the NFL is in full CYA mode in regards to player safety.