Saints Defense maintained a Bounty Program

[Warner2BruceTD]

Bounties have been going on since the beginning of football, geeks.

And that makes it ok!

Alert Goodell!

[1ke]

Where are the facts that they did?

Surely, by now, someone has gone through all of their defensive plays and has collected data on how many players the Saints injured. They have something like 18,000 documents collected over the 3 year investigation. Hopefully that's one thing they've done otherwise I don't know what the hell they've been doing.

If it hasn't been released yet for some reason, and I'd love to see it, then we can only assume that they didn't injure more players than other teams because they are innocent until proven guilty.

If they released evidence that the Saints did in fact injure more players than any other team in the league and by a significant amount then I lose and you win and I was wrong and you were right.

I have no problem being wrong. I've never said a bounty program is right, I've just been saying that I don't think it really has an affect on a player's attitude and his desire to inflict pain on other players in the game.

Stats Inc. did a breakdown of what they called "dirty penalties". Detroit was number 1. NO was number 3.

[1ke]

I think you guys who are nonchalantly disregarding this because it already existed are off base in terms of how far the Saints went with it.

I have serious doubts that you will find $10k bounties on players on every NFL locker room, with upwards of 25 players involved with the coaching staffs and outside convicted felons.

Wasnt there a bounty story a year ago about the Ravens players having money on Mendenhall? I cant remember if there was a dollar amount in that story.

[Bear Pand]

I think you guys who are nonchalantly disregarding this because it already existed are off base in terms of how far the Saints went with it.

I have serious doubts that you will find $10k bounties on players on every NFL locker room, with upwards of 25 players involved with the coaching staffs and outside convicted felons.

Colts had a bounty system last year. 1K for any hit. Funded by some local meth dealer.

Total Amount Paid Out: 3K

[ZoneBlitz]

And that makes it ok!

Alert Goodell!

Makes all of you sensitive sissies look stupid for being so outraged by this. Hitting people hard is a part of football. As long as the hits are within the rules, its a non-issue.

[DSpydr84]

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/story/17595418

Saints took common practice of bounties to new, dangerous level

Everything bucky, Tailback and I have been saying for posts now, validated in one article.

Well done.

[Warner2BruceTD]

Makes all of you sensitive sissies look stupid for being so outraged by this. Hitting people hard is a part of football. As long as the hits are within the rules, its a non-issue.

Yes, because this is a toughness issue.

Why is this such a common knee jerk reaction? Does watching football make you feel more manly?

[EmpireWF]

Makes all of you sensitive sissies look stupid for being so outraged by this. Hitting people hard is a part of football. As long as the hits are within the rules, its a non-issue.

Who the hell are you debating against? :olhoss:

[Warner2BruceTD]

Everything bucky, Tailback and I have been saying for posts now, validated in one article.

Well done.

Interesting interpretation of that article.

Eye of the beholder, I suppose.

[EmpireWF]

This is the crux of this story and why the NFL is reacting so strongly. While bounties have long existed -- going back decades, most infamously associated with Buddy Ryan and the Philadelphia Eagles in the 1980s -- what the Saints did was institutionalize them.

One league official familiar with the NFL investigation put it this way: The Saints took a ragtag concept and turned it into a car assembly line. They made it efficient and vicious, with bounty tentacles reaching the head coach and general manager.

That really didn't validate anything tailback or bucky were spouting off about.

[Warner2BruceTD]

That really didn't validate anything tailback or bucky were spouting off about.

It actually validated the opposite.

[Rayman]

Stats Inc. did a breakdown of what they called "dirty penalties". Detroit was number 1. NO was number 3.

The Lions need to be made an example of.

[nwfisch]

The fuck went on in here?

Jesus Christ.

ZB, TBU, bucky, and Dspyder should be banned for a day for nothing more than stupidity.

It can be bannable if you want it to be :olhoss:

[EmpireWF]

Bounty Money earned by Saints defenders on the following play: $0

Marshawn Lynch (True Meaning of Determination) - YouTube

this shit is over, rooski wins the thread.

[ZoneBlitz]

Yes, because this is a toughness issue.

Every player ive heard has said bounties are no big deal, a part of the game, etc.

They are the ones who play the game. If they are fine with it, why wouldnt you be?