Gronk! wrote:
Saints being investigated for paying players to injure opposition players, Warner & Favre are 2 known targets.
Peter King says the punishment is likely to be more than that given out for Spygate.
Deservedly so. This is much worse than Spygate. Injuries are a part of the game but deliberately trying to injure opposition players just isn't on.
There are a lot of allegations/statements out there about it at the minute so it largely depends on which can be proven to be true before the punishments can be determied, I expect Goodell to go hard on them though.
Gregg Williams is seemingly the main guy (from the coaching staff) and i'd expect him to be banned from the league for X number of years, if the allegations that he ran/knew about/condoned the bounty system, especially since the allegations are it was also present in Washington. Apparently the owner also told the GM to get it stopped, which he failed to do (although i don't know why he wouldn't just sack him when he refused/didn't) so I expect he'll be gone too. Monster fine is on its way for Sean Payton too IMO and I wouldn't be suprised if they are banned from the postseason for X number of years.
I expect some of the key players to also receive lengthy bans. The main one that i've read is that allegedly Vilma put up $10,000 for Favre. Now if that is true then he should be banned for the entire year if not longer.
There is a long way to go yet in this story but I think they are seriously going to get hammered if some of this stuff is true.