New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton has been suspended for one year and the team will lose its second round pick in 2012 and ’13 and pay $500,000 as a result of the NFL’s bounty investigation, the league announced Wednesday.
Former defensive coordinator Gregg Williams, who orchestrated the program, has been suspended from the NFL indefinitely. Saints general manager Mickey Loomis also faces an eight-game suspension and a $500,000 fine.
And Tim Tebow?
Traded to the Jets. For a 4th (or maybe a 4th and a 6th) Where Sexy Rexy can presumably teach him to curse like a sailor, then show him how turning the other cheek is for pussies and Biblethumping Christians.
Oh, wait —
Ahh. So that would be the reason Rush just dedicated the next hour of his program to Mark Sanchez.
Sexy Rexy? The man must have a rep I’m guessing. Someone, a little help with context please?
I don’t understand this move by the Broncos’ front office.
Peyton Manning takes one nasty hit and his career is over. Why would you pile millions of dollars on the table for a quarterback who’s in the sunset of his career, as opposed to an exciting, young, healthy quarterback who you can build on?
The mind boggles.
Is there something about cornerbacks?
Talking with some pals and they all think that the saints organization got off easy. No problem with the individuals penalties- except for one who thinks they should be either banned for life or executed. Also , how will the suspensions be enforced? Bugging everyone’s phones?
As for Timmy, he was last seen dragging his bags into the airport mumbling, “God, why hast thou forsaken me ?”
The NY Jets could be seen as “God created the Jets to test the faithful”.
The Jets cornerbacks talk a great game, but they were at home watching Tebow win a playoff game last year…
“As for Timmy, he was last seen dragging his bags into the airport mumbling, “God, why hast thou forsaken me ?””
Highly doubtful. Tebow has never been about “me”, as far as I know.
I’m betting, on bended knee and clear voice, he thanked God for a new opportunity. New York City! Why, there’s a town what needs to be witnessed to!
The Saints deserve that, and more.
Callahan – every guy on the field is one play away from a career ending injury.
witnessing
In re cornerbacks, both Cromartie and Revis have gigantic egos and gigantic mouths. Its sort of amusing they are apparently content with Mark “Lazy” Sanchez. You can accuse Teebow of being many things (or not being many things) but lazy is not one of those things.
I’ve enjoyed watching the black commentators on ESPN bend over backwards to tell me that Teebow’s career is over. Several of them, like Bomani Jones, looked positively giddy when announcing Teebow’s pending demise. What is it with black commentators hating Teebow? I heard one say back when the season was going on that Teebow didn’t deserve to be a QB in the NFL, because he played like a black QB, and there were so many deserving black QBs who didn’t get gigs. Its bizarre.
Snag in the trade talks now. Tebow to St. Louis?
I think if Denver had kept Tebow to play backup he would have been humble enough to fit right into that role.
It would be a real shame if bad things happened to Saints coaches and management when they were driving from the airport to their hotel when visiting certain cities. I sure do hope no airport or travel personnel ever leak any information that would make such events possible…
ESPN just reported that Jacksonville is back in play.
Players next. Fines, suspensions or bans? Seems like every other player would refuse to play if they were in the game and I would expect lawsuits too, if not criminal charges.
Players next. Fines and suspensions. Don’t put any money on the Aints making the playoffs.
Are people going to pretend that this doesn’t happen in football all the time? Do you really think they don’t single out players for special treatment?
Perhaps there wasn’t money attached before, but the results are the same.
I have no doubt that on some level, this is not at all uncommon. It is incredibly stupid for the team to sanction it, and run it, and they deserve everything they got.
By that token, cranky, I suppose you’ll tell me that fighting back against the Progressives is silly. I mean, they’ve been eroding our rights for generations — why start fighting now?
The question the league needs to answer is not how thing are or were, but how things will be. If it were me, New Orleans would be out of the league altogether, and encouraged to start their own league for bloodthirsty sadists. What’s sad is that they’d probably enjoy a fair bit of success…
The primary requirements for an NFL cornerback are to have the balance and reflexes of a cat.
Unfortunately it seems the intelligence and attitude of a cat are part of the package.
Given the coming class action lawsuits over brain trauma, I was actually expecting a bit more.
Helmet to helmet hits this coming year? Might be a ticket out of the league.
Take away the pads and helmets. Fixed.
RG3 or Andrew Luck? I am beginning to think there is a legitimate chance that this is still an option.
No, Squid, I think a lot of the breathlessness I see on this issue is ridiculous is all. You would likely have to punish every team to be equitable.
So, instead, the Saints will be the scapegoats for a policy every team follows, though perhaps not as brazenly.
It’s the righteous indignation that bothers me, nothing else. Punish away.
I agree, cranky. I’m sure this is more widespread than just N.O., but they were unfortunately the ones who got caught first. Which means the message to the rest of the league is “stop all of this right now, lest you end up with the same.”
Any and all players, coaches, staff, etc., the message is clear: the league does not want to hear another allegation about something like this, ever again. It may not be fair to the Saints, but it helps the league keep its image. Something MLB never has, and apparently never will learn… at least as long as Bud the Chud is in charge.
Paying blood money ain’t right, but I gotta ask, as long as it was a legal hit on the field, is it a crime to reward the player for taking out an opponent? We want them to hit hard, hell, there’s usually high fives and cheers from the fans when a guy is leveled with a devastating hit.
I just hope we don’t end up with a National Flag Football League one of these first days.
Actually, my worry there is more due to half the players wearing pink, but still, there seems to be more and more pressure from the league to protect the players . These gentle giants, making millions playing a violent game, must have a safe workplace.
Don’t yell at me, like I said, blood money is wrong. If the players were encouraged to play dirty, all who participated should be banned from the league forever. Are there instances were players were paid a bounty for a play that earned a penalty on the field? I don’t know, but that would be reason for criminal charges IMO…
It’s about the p.r. first, and protecting players from cheap shots second.
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After the second incident, Steeler’s coach Chuck Noll referred to Atkinson as part of the “criminal element” in football
It’s not called the National Felons League for nothing.
Which kinda goes toward the unreasoning hatred of Tim Tebow.
Seems I’ve read somewhere that knee injuries are up because everyone is tackling low now.
It’s more because of the political markers laid down by the LGBT, Atheist, and pro-abortion progressive identity groups. He hits them all. Tebow the human hat trick.
Shoot, forgot a link.
They’re not all felons. The felons get all of the press and rightfully so. For the rest of the league, it’s just their job.
My boys have met most of the guys who are the starters for the Steelers at spring training camp. I have a bunch of pictures of them with Heinz Ward and Troy Palumulu.
Maybe Tim can go to Jacksonville after all.
OT @ Darleen @ leigh…
Brand new grandson welcomed into the world this afternoon.
Mom and baby are doing well. Husband is burning up the phone lines to his side of the family.
This would be grandson #3.
Grandpa gleefully rubs his hands together with anticipation of buying toys for boys…bwahahaha
/OT
Congratulations, Blake! It’s never too early to buy the little one sporting goods.
My dad brought my eldest a tiny baseball mitt on his first visit to the hospital.
There’s something about Seminole cornerbacks, at least.
Wikipedia has this to say about Cromartie:
It’s arguable which of his heads has fewer brains.
Nothing quite like watching your 4 month old grandson laugh at his own farts.
Congratulations Blake!!
Not just sporting goods, but remember the musical instruments, too. :-)
Thanks, Darleen and Leigh.
My two oldest grandsons are at the age where DIY kit toys are really cool.
/end threadjack. And I mean it this time. ;)
i sense a grandpa exemption like the southern keystone pipeline
Hey, congrats, Blake. That’s great.
Apparently, it’s done. Tebow is a Jet. Sorry about that, Tim.
Congrats, Blake!
When you’re a Jet, you’re a Jet all the way….
No Superbowl since 1969? That’s a big hill to climb.
Thanks again, all.
I really don’t get the Jets taking Tebow, though.
I forget what they called it, but the Jets had/have the ex-Missouri QB who would line up in a college type formation at times. If they want to plug Tebow into that role, I could see it. And he’s supposed to spur Sanchez into being… whatever it is he isn’t. Not a playoff caliber QB, for one thing.
I see how it works for the Jets, for Tebow, not so much. Honestly though, he’s a mediocre player. Seems like a first rate human being, but may have already peaked as a pro QB.
Yep, he played one year and has already peaked.
Congrats, Blake. I still laugh at my own farts.
Huzzahs to a new one Blake! Shares his birthday with a man among men, he does.
I keep hearing Tebow took the Broncos to their first playoff game since 2005.
When was the last time the Broncos WON a playoff game?
Peaked? Uh huh, sure…
Sarah Shahi
That is all.
Oh, I see that was 2005, after a first round bye. Still, no Bronco team has done better than one playoff win since 1998.
They went to the AFC Championship game that year, Lee. Took the Pats out in the second round. Brady’s first postseason loss.
The history of the NFL is littered with QBs who showed flashes of brilliance early in their careers, then quickly faded into mediocrity, then out of the league. Tebow seems to have started his career in mediocrity.
Could he get better? Sure, but there are many people who believed he had no business being in the league in the first place. I’m rooting for the guy, but it’s very possible his win against the Steelers was a fluke, and very possibly the high tide of his career. We’ll see.