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06-18-2012, 06:16 PM | #1652 | |
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Given that the released evidence last Friday included a blog post and newspaper article written months after the investigation concluded, I'm not sure I'd believe Goodell if he said the sky was blue. Apparently those billions the NFL is making is being used for time travel. I hope it goes to court just so he has to release what he has and this wasn't him picking an object lesson to make it look like he gives two shits about player safety with a giant class action lawsuit over his head. Last edited by bronconick : 06-18-2012 at 06:18 PM. |
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06-18-2012, 06:28 PM | #1653 | |
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06-18-2012, 06:39 PM | #1654 | |
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I fucking hate Goodell. The QB on my team was suspended for 6 games (originally) based on an accusation with not even enough evidence for probable cause whereas other players drive drunk, kill people and don't get as many games. My team had the first player suspended for an action during the play in the last 20 years. It's ok if a Patriots player uses his head purposely like a torpedo, but shit if our guy doesn't sit for a week on a bang-bang play where the hit he put on the QB was legal 1/2 of a second earlier. Goodell is a fuck who I believe doesn't give two shits about the players and is absolutely making a big stink about the bounties to try to sway public opinion in advance of the concussion lawsuits. That being said, the players haven't cooperated in the least. We know they lied. We know they refused to come to the NFL even after being asked before the punishment was handed down. We know the Saints players ratified the CBA. Now they're walking out of the appeals process less than an hour into the meeting. There hasn't been a Saints player yet who has categorically denied being part of the bounty program. Every denial has been along the lines of "prove that someone got hurt", "prove that someone got paid for injuring someone else", "prove that I put money in the system to get someone hurt", "we were just doing what the coaches told us to do" and so forth. It's all been a semantic dance and a whole lot of bullshit. Fuck them for making me defend Goodell, but he's in the right here. The NFL doesn't want to reveal all of the evidence because that could hinder cooperation in future investigations. The players know this and that's why they're doing what they're doing rather than going through the system. They regret giving Goodell the power and they want to destroy the system. That's why there's all this semantic bullshit going on. They hope to change the appeals process in the CBA even after signing on to it. My opinion is that if Vilma does go to court and the NFL has to reveal everything (and I believe they have enough on him), they should ban that fucker for life. Last edited by Blackadar : 06-18-2012 at 06:41 PM. |
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06-18-2012, 06:52 PM | #1655 |
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Sorry RKG, I'm just getting rather annoyed with the semantic games these players are playing. If/when they decide to go to court, guys like Loomis, Payton and Williams are going to bury them (never mind the written proof which I believe exists). That's the showdown the NFL is trying to avoid, because if Vitt/Loomis/Payton/Williams have to testify, it will end their careers as no player would play for those guys again. But if they lie, they're out of the league. The NFL doesn't want to totally destroy the careers of these guys (though Williams is probably done in the NFL - expect to see him in college in a couple of years), but that's what is going to happen. Because the players don't care and so that's the course of action they're undertaking. They believe that the NFL won't bring this to a head and ruin those careers, so they're playing chicken with Goodell on this. I bet if they had shut up and followed the process, all of their suspensions would have been cut in half. But no, they're willing to jeopardize the careers of their current and former bosses on a hunch the NFL will blink first. But the NFL won't - they never have and never will because there's too much money and power at stake. That's why I'm so annoyed. I don't believe they're not guilty for one second and I firmly believe that they're trying to make this a power play. If someone was innocent, don't you think they'd have flown to NYC when Goodell was working on this to talk about it? Even just to say, "Hey, Roger, I wasn't involved in anything that rewarded injuries"? No, their tactic all along has been to stonewall and obfuscate - which is a dead giveaway regarding their involvement. Last edited by Blackadar : 06-18-2012 at 07:19 PM. |
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After watching Fujita work real hard to remember the script when he talked with the media, I tend to agree on his guilt.
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I also pretty heartily disagree that this is going to cost these guys much in the way of future job opportunities or their ability to provide for their families. What is going to cost them is their being seen as litigious liars.
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06-18-2012, 08:18 PM | #1659 | |
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06-18-2012, 08:44 PM | #1660 |
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I still have a problem with a system that finds its way to give an equal punishment to the most culpable player and the head coach. How Vilma is getting twice as much time as the GM also bothers me.
This like in "A Few Good Men" if the two enlisted guys wound up with the same punishment as Jack Nicholson and Kiefer Sutherland. |
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He's getting the same time as the coach and less time than the assistant coach. So your beef is that Loomis didn't get the same amount of time as all of those guys? |
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06-19-2012, 07:10 AM | #1663 | |
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Now does anyone believe the statement I've bolded? That Sean Payton, Joe Vitt, Micky Loomis, Tom Benson and Gregg Williams would just take their punishments without issue if there "was no bounty system". It's beyond belief. Last edited by Blackadar : 06-19-2012 at 07:12 AM. |
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06-19-2012, 07:16 AM | #1664 |
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Gregg Williams said the bounty program existed did he not? That's what bugs me about these players trying to deny it even existed when the guy who created it said it did exist.
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Yep. And the guy took a possible lifetime suspension for it. He wouldn't do that if there was no bounty system. |
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06-19-2012, 09:39 AM | #1666 |
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Yeah, the playrs are hoping to create a public outcry to get someone in to be an appeal from Goodell, but they have backed a losing horse here
Lord knows that I was on the players side during the strike, but man, you're denying the sky is blue here guys,. You've lost. Move on.
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06-19-2012, 09:51 AM | #1667 | |
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That's some smoking-gun style evidence right there. Fuck all these players/coaches/executives. Kick them out for good.
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06-19-2012, 09:52 AM | #1668 |
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Sometimes you can win and trick everyone into thinking you're innocent just by attacking the process. I think that's the strategy here.
So few people are willing to just accept responsibility for mistakes, despite how much everyone respects them when they do. Even if you have a viable defense strategy, even if you have the lawyers, if even if you CAN fight it, for god's sake you don't always have to. Be a man. Last edited by molson : 06-19-2012 at 09:54 AM. |
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Hmmm. There was a time when I had respect for professional athletes (at least some of them). I actually believed that Drew Brees was intelligent. But after this ridiculous statement, I have my doubts.
Yes, getting paid to hurt other players is most definitely similar to finding nuclear weapons in a 3rd world country. Why can't these guys just shut the fuck up already. Drew Brees, you sir are an idiot.
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What you don't remember when Saddam and baghdad bob all admitted to there being WMDs?
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And then the top Iraqi suicide bombers involved all got suspended between 3 weeks and a year without bombs?
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Yep, although I would guess Bin Laden got the worse end of the deal in that suspension train...
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I would have thought the top suicide bombers couldn't have been suspended, only the rubbish ones?
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Nah, those weren't my lips that were moving! NFL Videos: NFL reveals video evidence of Saints' 'bounty' program |
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Hargrove ain't exactly known as a brain surgeon
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Actually.... School of Medicine at New Orleans Foreground from left to right: Eric Knott, Zevie Davis, Anthony Hargrove, Monica Ertel and Kris Sheets
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06-19-2012, 04:29 PM | #1679 | |
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No. My problem is that any of the coaches/executives knew about the program, that their punishments should me more severe. The most severe punishments have to be at the top of the food chain. Either Payton or Loomis could have stopped the bounty system with a few words. Any player has to go against his coach, his organization and probably damage his teammates to stop it. He should have the courage to do it anyway. But you're asking a hell of a lot more from him. There is also the secondary point that a top coach has a 30-40 year career in football. A top player has a 10-15 year career. A year for Payton is like two or three for Vilma. |
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I can only assume he's there visiting friends (having been AI at Tech after one good season & then heading off to the NFL).
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Unless they go into coaching...
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That's a totally different career. I see this as something akin to being given an unlawful order in the military. The soldier has the right and duty to refuse. If he's caught, he gets punished. However, modern societies have realized that the lion's share of the blame for soldiers carrying out unlawful orders lies with the superior that gave those instructions. One could see Vilma as the sergeant in this scenario. He has more responsibility than the players beneath him. But he received those orders from those who bear more responsibility still. I suppose one could make the argument that Loomis is so far removed that even though he's ultimately responsible for the team, he had no intimate knowledge of what was going on. But Payton had have known. There's no way any player that participated should get more severe sanctions, or even as severe. |
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Im on my phone right now so i cant source this, but i recall Brees saying something in the past that had me questioning his intelligence. I could be wrong though. I think he is fairly conservative so it may have just been a personal belief that i disagreed with. |
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06-20-2012, 08:04 AM | #1687 | |
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I think Vilma is a bit of a special case. His "I'll give $10K to whoever knocks Favre out" bit is like the Lieutenant saying "clear that village, I know there are civilians in there" and then the Sergeant (Vilma in your case) saying "let's just frag the whole place". That immediately ups his culpability in the whole thing. And let's not forget that the primary driver, Williams, did in fact get a higher punishment. Vilma is being punished like the Captain who refused to stop the Lieutenant, not the Lieutenant in your analogy.
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06-20-2012, 11:14 AM | #1688 | |
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Interesting blog on ESPN.com about the Hargrove situation:
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The video is here: NFL Videos: NFL reveals video evidence of Saints' 'bounty' program The clip in question is at the 4:30 mark. Seifert makes an interesting point. If you look at the context, it could very well be that Hargrove talking to Bobby McCray in a different conversation. But the "pay me my money" is actually coming from Remi Ayodele to Will Smith. This makes a little more sense as Hargrove wasn't even involved in the hit that hurt Favre - Ayodele was. It would be weird for a guy not involved in the play to come off the field and say "Pay me my money" right after it. We'll see how the league responds, but it seems like Ayodele should be the one suspended for this comment and not Hargrove if you look at the context. Last edited by Arles : 06-20-2012 at 11:16 AM. |
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Percy Harvin is asking to be traded, sadly I can't say I blame him.
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Cleveland and St. Louis have to be very interested in that.
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Yep - we were already lauding him over in the "thread for athletes who do nice things" thread. Class move by Jacobs.
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Isn't Owens completely broke?
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I don't know. While I don't recall everything from it, his interview in GQ a few months back was pretty sad. |
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It's pretty crazy how you can more or less equate professional athletes with lottery winners in regards to being broke.
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Yeah, it seems a little crazy how easy it sounds to not fall into that trap. You get a big ass signing bonus on your most recent deal, so why not get yourself a nice home to live in in a place you wouldn't mind being for the long term, then putting a big chunk of the remaining funds somewhere safe where it can grow? Use the rest to rent a nice house in the current city you play for, and that's that.
But then, I guess thinking about the situation and actually being in it might be a different story all together. I don't know how I would react to having a shit ton of money dumped in my lap, but I do know how I would like to react.
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