Saints Defense maintained a Bounty Program

[Tailback U]

And Vilma's teammates tried to collect the bounty. Favre's ankle and hamstring after the NFC championship game



I was at the game and you could see the excitement on the Saints sidelines each time took a cheap shot. You can't fault players for being excited when their team is doing well but obviously cheering on injuries to opposing players is pretty low class.

I bet you masturbate to those pictures you sick fuck. Your love for Favre is disturbing.

Here are highlights of the hits the Saints put on Favre:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJG7WtIn8f8"]New Orleans Saints put Brett Favre's Pants on the Ground (featuring American Idol's Larry Platt) - YouTube[/ame]

I don't know if that is all of them or not, but from those hits I see nothing that is clearly and undeniably cheap done by the Saints in any of those plays. Not only that, I could say that on some of the plays it looks like the Saints players are actually trying to do everything they can to make sure they aren't doing anything extra that would risk getting a penalty.

So they were probably cheering every time they sacked Favre, hit Favre, or put Favre on the ground then. How weird.

[RosettaStoned]

Hits on Favre and Warner were dirty as fuck. Not surprised there was a bounty, that defense played dirty through the playoffs.

Take draft pics, and make Brees have that growth removed from his face.

[ZoneBlitz]

That bounty is such a miniscule percentage of the players salary, its insignificant & didnt change play in any way.

The problem i see with a bounty (if the prize was substantial), is that it would encourage illegal hits.

However, if players are more encouraged to make hard hits and keep them within the rules, i see no problem at all.

Teams are always trying to knock the opposing QB out of the game, they dont need chump change to be motivated to do that.

[nwfisch]

What a surprise, ZoneBlitz misses the point as well.

He's OK with it as long as Williams used the Zone Blitz.

[Houston]

I bet you masturbate to those pictures you sick fuck. Your love for Favre is disturbing.

Here are highlights of the hits the Saints put on Favre:

New Orleans Saints put Brett Favre's Pants on the Ground (featuring American Idol's Larry Platt) - YouTube

I don't know if that is all of them or not, but from those hits I see nothing that is clearly and undeniably cheap done by the Saints in any of those plays. Not only that, I could say that on some of the plays it looks like the Saints players are actually trying to do everything they can to make sure they aren't doing anything extra that would risk getting a penalty.

So they were probably cheering every time they sacked Favre, hit Favre, or put Favre on the ground then. How weird.

Never liked the saying, but if I could groan this post 100 times I would.

[EmpireWF]

For the millionth time, it's not about penalties or trying to sack a QB cleanly. It's about trying to collect cash for injuring a player, no other reason.

[MrBill]

I bet you masturbate to those pictures you sick fuck. Your love for Favre is disturbing.

Don't get your roided up panties in such a twist there Lattimer. This isn't a discussion about where Favre sits on the GOAT list, this is about the Saints being guilty of illegal hits on QBs during the 2010 playoffs. The mention of Favre's name as a victim of said bounty program is germane to the conversation going on in this thread.

Here are highlights of the hits the Saints put on Favre:

New Orleans Saints put Brett Favre's Pants on the Ground (featuring American Idol's Larry Platt) - YouTube

I don't know if that is all of them or not, but from those hits I see nothing that is clearly and undeniably cheap done by the Saints in any of those plays. Not only that, I could say that on some of the plays it looks like the Saints players are actually trying to do everything they can to make sure they aren't doing anything extra that would risk getting a penalty.

It's a good thing you don't work for the NFLPA or the league office because there were $30,000 in fines in those hits that are in your clip. If you don't think the shots to the knee and ankle area that produced the injuries shown in the photo weren't dirty, then you are just trolling.

So they were probably cheering every time they sacked Favre, hit Favre, or put Favre on the ground then. How weird.

I know what I saw because I was at the game. They were cheering and high fiving each other when Favre took a dirty shot like the one where he was driven to the turf and the high low shot that knocked him out of the game. When that one happened and Favre was limping off of the field the reaction on the Saints sideline made it obvious something was going on. NFL sidelines do not normally cheer for injuries to opponents because it is bad karma.

[bucky]

For the millionth time, it's not about penalties or trying to sack a QB cleanly. It's about trying to collect cash for injuring a player, no other reason.

So, like warner, your just making style rants that end up changing nothing and poo-pooing the substance part of the issue? I asked Warner and he was too much of a woman to answer, so I'll ask you.

What's your end game here? What are you trying to accomplish? You just after style issues like NFL PR, and ethics, or do you really want solutions that make these illegal hit bounty's to injure go away?

Really Empire, what's your end game here? Or are you ranting just to rant?

I'm convinced that Warner's a woman, cause that's exactly what woman do.

So tell me Empire, what are you trying to accomplish? Do you want the NFL to do anything to stop these things? Cause apparently, Warner just wants to bitch about them.

[EmpireWF]

Endgame? Accomplish? The fuck are you talking about.

The Saints are going to be penalized like they had a one night stand with Mrs. Goodell. HARD.

So hard that coaches, GMs and other officials and people associated with teams are not going to pay bonus money to players TO INJURE ANYONE. And if they do, then ban their ass.

Now quit your psychobabble.

[killgod]

I gotta wonder how Goodell is going to handle this. Yes the Saints have been proven to do this, but players from other teams are openly admitting this too. How does that allow him to punish the Saints and only the Saints?

[bucky]

Endgame? Accomplish? The fuck are you talking about.

The Saints are going to be penalized like they had a one night stand with Mrs. Goodell. HARD.

So hard that coaches, GMs and other officials and people associated with teams are not going to pay bonus money to players TO INJURE ANYONE. And if they do, then ban their ass.

Now quit your psychobabble.

This may do something to deter it. But it goes further underground where wording makes it harder to prosecute the next time. You really think going after the Saints is really gonna change anything on the field? You seriously think this? I don't. Doesn't it make more sense to significantly increase the penalties for illegal hits? That at least does make game day changes. And you call that psycho babble?

SMH at you thinking that just going after the Saints will make illegal hits and hits to injure go away.

[bucky]

I gotta wonder how Goodell is going to handle this. Yes the Saints have been proven to do this, but players from other teams are openly admitting this too. How does that allow him to punish the Saints and only the Saints?

It opens a HUGE can of worms. Other players should have kept their mouths shut.

My guess, but it's just a guess, is the NFL doesn't pursue any others saying they have the evidence for the Saints but don't have the evidence against the other teams, and behind closed doors decide to not try and find evidence against the other teams.

[EmpireWF]

I gotta wonder how Goodell is going to handle this. Yes the Saints have been proven to do this, but players from other teams are openly admitting this too. How does that allow him to punish the Saints and only the Saints?

The league told the Saints to quit the program and not only did the organization lie, they continued doing it.

That's why the Saints are getting the book thrown at them.

[MrBill]

The league told the Saints to quit the program and not only did the organization lie, they continued doing it.

That's why the Saints are getting the book thrown at them.

Kind of like if the Patriots got caught taping games again

[Warner2BruceTD]

Well, well, well, looks like everybody is going down, just like I said they would.

You see Tailback, Zoneblitz, bucky, dspyder, in civilized society we don't accept concepts like bounties and blood money. Normal people think this is really fucked up and unethical, so Goodell is going to send a message to everybody else that if you bring that thug shit to the the shield, he is going to kick your ass out of his league.

It was never about "good, clean, hard, hits", as you mouth breathing morons continually (and still) miss the point. It's about rouge cash-for-injury operations taking place in locker rooms, and it can't be tolerated for reasons obvious to anybody who isn't mentally retarded.