nfl offseason transactions, fired coaches, general nonsense 2012

browns will not franchise hillis, will become an ufa, wtf?

that seems smart to me?

he had one good season and seemed like a total d bag last year

Yeah, Hillis was the Browns equivalent of a Samkon Gado.

madden curse strikes again

I know, I know. It probably is the right move. I'm just pissed. It'll be sad when fantasy football comes around and you'll see all these lists of player after player and not a single Brown will represent. RIP my Peyton Hillis "White Rhino" shirt.

Browns would be wise to make a run at Michael Bush or Mike Tolbert

Jason La Canfora ‏ @JasonLaCanfora
NFL announces a comprehensive investigation find Saints defense and coaches guilty of violating NFL rules by having bounties on opponents...

Jason La Canfora ‏ @JasonLaCanfora
According to the NFL, the bounty pool totaled upwards of $50K at times w/ payments for "knock-out hits" w/ players and coaches contributing

Jason La Canfora ‏ @JasonLaCanfora
League has yet to decide discipline on Saints or any individuals for the bounty violations. It will be discussed at the March league meeting

that's not good

Jason La Canfora ‏ @JasonLaCanfora
NFL investigation says Saints coaches and GM Mickey Loomis did not intervene to stop bounties when owner Tom Benson instructed them to

this is pretty grizzly

they better go down harder than the pats did for spygate

best believe d'benson

as gregg williams was DC, st louis should be banned from fielding a defense this season

i find this wing-clipping p strange

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/09000d5d8275448d/article/saints-gm-reportedly-calls-brees-very-good-but-not-great?module=HP11_headline_stack

as gregg williams was DC, st louis should be banned from fielding a defense this season

― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, March 2, 2012 3:24 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

eh who would really notice the difference

boom!

they better go down harder than the pats did for spygate

― call all destroyer, Friday, March 2, 2012 8:22 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark

well hopefully the nfl won't take away their 1st round pick...

hines ward released apparently

farrior too

old steelers are old

that very good not great article is insane
he just had arguably among the top three seasons by a pro quarterback ever!

just playing a little contract hardball, nbd

it's just demonstrably untrue!

doesnt it alienate their fans for him to be subtly demeaning local hero etc brees

i mean omelettes etc but still

nah everyone forgets abt this stuff once the contract is done

anyway, the saints had a good run as a likable franchise, onto the panthers bandwagon imo.

odds that dan snyder texted brees when that GM comment came out?

i would!

Peter King ‏ @SI_PeterKing
In my opinion, the penalties on this will be worse, and maybe significantly worse, than Spygate.

probably not a good idea to institutionalize the idea of pay to maim in a professional sport, huh

oh so *that* is where the nfl draws the line

well they won't allow shotguns so

Adam Schefter ‏ @AdamSchefter Reply Retweet Favorite · Open
Investigation reviewed 18.000 documents totaling more than 50,000 pages. Commissioner Goodell will determine the discipline.

how could there possibly be 50000 pages? just like a billion printed out text msg exchanges & emails or.. i honestly cant think of one thing anyone involved would put in written form

"Dear Diary..."

my guess would be email printouts where the entire email thread gets copied on every new message.

also transcribed interviews

phil simms just said in an interview he thinks peyty goes to washington

not that he knows anything im sure

he's headed to politics already?

Peyty could definitely be a Senator from Indiana.

it does seem like he could slot into any job in america, football or non-football. there was some rumor i heard that espn took jaws out of the mnf booth so they could easily get him in there if he retires. if i had 2 go in 4 some medical procedure next week and peyty was the head surgeon would i be surprised?

just saw the clip of the maybe cheap shot-ish hit? on kurt warner from the '10 playoff game after an int

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC1T1tAbA4s

be very interested in what comes down on sean payton...goodell specifically said he wasn't "directly" involved but that he knew and did nothing to stop it...and my feeling is that, as a head coach, that's pretty much a meaningless distinction in my mind

also, i feel like the league is pretty much petrified behind the scenes about possible class action lawsuits by former players regarding concussions and how does that factor into the nfl's response?

well they won't allow shotguns so

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl)

billy cole went around this by using a .45 iirc

so which sportswriter is the first to take the time to go through all the film of the season and see how many guys got injured vs the saints defense and which ones were cheap shots...

http://mike-freeman.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/6264363/35066335

Funds for the Saints bounty system, the memo states, weren't solely contributed by players. People close to the Saints team contributed as well. One was a felon: Michael Ornstein.
[..] The NFL memo to teams state that then Ornstein pledged $10,000 towards the quarterback bounty in 2009.

Then, on at least two occasions in 2011, Ornstein again contributed to a bounty fund on an opposing quarterback.

The NFL memo also states there was a bounty paper trail. Ornstein put details of the bounty system in an e-mail to Payton, according to the NFL memo. In that e-mail, Ornstein committed $5,000 towards yet another bounty.

holy shit seriously?

also whoever on the saints talked to NFL during the first investigation (before evidence turned up) lied about it. per bedard @ boston globe who is a solid reporter so..

i wonder about those years when williams was DC on the redskins.

fuuuuucking hell

a-ha. well, here you go:

Washington Redskins, New Orleans Saints had bounty systems that paid for big hits

the next thing i thought after "did williams do this with the redskins?" was "sean taylor (rip) would definitely hit somebody"