No, I will bring up Gregg Williams and the Saints every time there is new evidence of head injuries being a terrible, terrible thing, because there are people here who downplayed what the Saints were doing based on macho bullshit, and some antiquated 1960's vision of football being MURDER DEATH KILL at all costs.
New evidence of head injuries being terrible? First of all, this isn't new evidence. Everyone already knew that head injuries are terrible. There've been plenty of cases already that have linked repeated head trauma to severe consequences, if you want to call it more evidence that's fine by me but it's not new evidence.
There were people here (and elsewhere) who listened to Gregg Williams on tape telling his players to go for KILL SHOTS TO THE HEAD (for money!), and concluded this was perfectly fine behavior, because hey, "it's an NFL locker room, and it's a man's game".
That has nothing to do with Seau at all. I don't recall anyone here saying his comments were perfectly fine, people were arguing that getting rid of the bounty program isn't going to decrease the aggressive nature of the game and therefore it won't improve player safety.
If anything, Seau (and Duerson, and others) is actually evidence that the game itself is too violent and that bounties have nothing to do with it, people are getting hurt because of the way that football is played these days. It has nothing to do with Greg Williams or bounties, dude.
How many players need to blow holes through their chests like Dave Duerson and Junior Seau did before we wake up and stop complaining about stuff like "pussified rules changes"? It's like I said when the Saints story broke, Williams & Payton should never coach again. Goodell got it half right.
You're talking about two separate things here. The "pussified rule changes" and the bounty program are two completely separate topics. The rules have already changed to improve player safety, and nobody cares if Williams/Payton never coach in the NFL again, but I guess you get off on constantly bringing it up over and over again like a 5 year old who brags about predicting the ending of a cartoon right, "I told you so!"
You're acting like the Saints bounty program is the main reason why Seau killed himself. That shit had nothing to do with Seau. He killed himself because the game is brutally violent - even without bounty programs - just like "I told you so!"
I understand what you are getting at, the bounty programs are a huge deal and should be banned and everyone involved should be punished because of what they can lead to. My point is that guys are getting CTE and killing themselves with or without the bounty programs, the player safety issue is much larger than the bounty program. Getting rid of the bounty program isn't going to get rid of concussions, even though it is a step in the right direction and absolutely necessary.
