Nfl Suspends 4 Saints For Bountygate: Vilma Gone For The Season!

[CRA]

Meh. Appeals and legal battles may allow them to play. They already have covered for Vilma. Smith will be a minor issue if it sticks. Peyton will be coaching behing the scenes. So it all boils down to Brees. If he signs, the Aints will be contenders. If he doesn't, they won't be. Simple as that. :waits:

Goodell will squash any appeal unless they can provide new evidence and do it quickly if going off based actions.

Legal stuff is a separate issue.

Payton is arguably best HC play caller in the NFL. Brees isn't Peyton Manning until he proves to be

[pOpCoRnPoPpEr]

With P. Manning we've seen how one man can change the fortunes of a franchise. One can hope the Brees pulls a Palmer...

[csx]

I'd say all in all it's a pretty harsh punishment. If they weren't so conceited about it I doubt much of anything would have happened to them.

[Catalyst]

Meh, whatever. We almost beat them last year in Charlotte with one of the worst defenses in the league. We should take care of them easily week 2 this year. Not so sure about the regular season finale in the dome.

[pOpCoRnPoPpEr]

Losing the coaches hurts them a lot more than the suspensions.

[csx]

Losing the coaches hurts them a lot more than the suspensions.

obviously

[Toolbox]

lofton is a two down linebacker who can't cover the pass.

man i sure wish we had tight ends that could exploit that.

[GotSwag?]

No Roman Harper?

They whole defense should have gotten suspended for a year

[CRA]

Losing the coaches hurts them a lot more than the suspensions.

Losing Payton hurts big. Will Smith being gone is a hurdle they will have to deal with....the rest is just fun stuff

[Fiz]

It's frankly pitiful how much some of you enjoy this.

[Gallagher]

I can't say that I'm not happy (Because seriously, fug the Saints*) but, i must admit that I was hoping for a bit more than this based off the initial report that cited 22 to 27 players.

Coaches and draft picks hurt but, in the end this is a game that is fought and won by the players. I guess I was hoping more than 2 dirty Aints* would ge their comeuppance.

Whatever though, the NFC South still goes through us.

[The Special One]

Oh snap!

[CatMan72]

Awesome, now where are our resident Taints fans who were telling us it would be no big deal?

I'm shocked Harper is not included, but maybe another wave is coming?

IMO, Fujita is the biggest scumbag of all time because he was one of the union reps arguing about how the players needed better health benefits, etc.

[CatMan72]

It's frankly pitiful how much some of you enjoy this.

I don't enjoy it, I F*CKING LOVE IT!