Bountygate

The New Orleans Saints finally got busted for posting bounties on opposing players. The only real surprise here is that it took this long. Idiot defensive coordinator Gregg Williams only said that his minions were looking to take out Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre before the 2009 NFC Championship game. It was no secret. It was the only defense that the idiot could come up with. I was surprised that the Saints weren't punished in some way simply for talking about taking out players. It shouldn't have mattered whether there was money on the table for the hits. Idiot Williams spoke of taking out players several times over the past few years. There are now reports that he did this when he coached for the Washington Redskins. Idiots never learn. The Saints efforts on the field simply confirmed things. Just this past season Vikings running back Adrian Peterson spoke of Saints defensive back Jabari Greer executing some "after the play is dead" extracurriculars upon his ankle. Twisting it, and such. Anything to get a player that the Saints couldn't otherwise stop out of the game. Just sad, coward football.

These efforts by the Saints should have brought about a punishment even before this bounty news. Speaking of injuring players and trying to injure players is deserving of penalties. Now that it's known that the Saints paid players for taking out opponents they have to be punished. This is a worse offense than the Spygate situation of the New England Patriots. They were fined heavily and lost a first round draft pick. The Saints should receive an even more harsh punishment. It's unforunate that idiot Williams has taken his stunts to St. Louis. It's not right to punish the Rams for something that the idiot did with the Saints.

Beyond the player safety issues, the bounties violate salary cap rules. Whatever punishment is dropped on the Saints should reflect that. When Saints owner Tom Benson caught wind of this he instructed his employees to stop. General manager Mickey Loomis and head coach Sean Payton knew and still did nothing except ignore their boss.

When the Vikings signed former Saints defensive tackle last summer I wondered if the truth would follow. I wonder if Ayodele and the Vikings were the whistle blowers. It's sad if it took something like that for the NFL to investigate. The comments by the idiot over the past few years should have been enough.