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Offline dixierose

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Saint's Payton suspended for entire 2012 season...
« on: March 21, 2012, 01:43:10 PM »
http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/saints-bountygate-punishment-032112

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The NFL on Wednesday levied one of the harshest penalties in league history in punishing the New Orleans Saints for running an illegal bounty system targeting opposing offense players.

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. Williams was suspended indefinitely. Saints head coach Sean Payton was suspended for the entire 2012 season. General manager Mickey Loomis is suspended for the first eight games and linebackers/assistant head coach Joe Vitt for the first six.

In addition, the Saints were fined $500,000 and stripped of second-round draft choices in the 2012 and 2013 drafts.

The entire article can be read at the link posted above.

I'd like thoughts on this. Are the penalties too harsh or not? How do y'all think this will affect the 2012 season if at all? I'm a Falcons fan, so I have an obvious bias against the Saints. I believe the penalties are warranted.

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Re: Saint's Payton suspended for entire 2012 season...
« Reply #1 on: March 21, 2012, 01:46:51 PM »
From what I heard about it, it's not harsh enough.  Kick him out of the league.
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Re: Saint's Payton suspended for entire 2012 season...
« Reply #2 on: March 21, 2012, 01:49:21 PM »
Concur--you threaten someone's livelihood, yours should be threatened as well.
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Re: Saint's Payton suspended for entire 2012 season...
« Reply #3 on: March 21, 2012, 01:55:29 PM »
Quote from: NHSparky on March 21, 2012, 01:49:21 PM
Concur--you threaten someone's livelihood, yours should be threatened as well.

Make that a third for me.
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Re: Saint's Payton suspended for entire 2012 season...
« Reply #4 on: March 21, 2012, 03:17:49 PM »
****!!!!   :mad:
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Re: Saint's Payton suspended for entire 2012 season...
« Reply #5 on: March 21, 2012, 03:19:17 PM »
Quote from: chris_ on March 21, 2012, 01:46:51 PM
From what I heard about it, it's not harsh enough.  Kick him out of the league.

I seriously doubt Payton knew a damn thing about it. Gregg Williams, however.... and he's no longer with the Saints.
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