So I just saw a report that Williams' Bills had this as well. Hopefully all these teams lose their first round picks.
How are you going to end it? Assign a hall monitor to follow Gregg Williams everywhere he goes? You can't regulate everything that happens in the locker room. I assume that the bounties won't stop; coaches and players will just refrain from writing any of it down.
Nicks was good as gone soon as they used the Franchise tag on Brees. The question is can we afford him, and the answer is probably no.
Lions coach Jim Schwartz ran the same bountry program while he was at Tennessee which makes Bart Scott's comments from the 2010 Lions game a little more sense.
They won't be looking the other way any more. Injuries have suddenly become the main thing standing between the NFL and continued prosperity, specifically the type that cripple players after retirement and cut 15 years off of their life expectancy.
Thanks, and looking now and the problems people have with Schwartz and Suh his comments make a lot of sense. I think the NFL is going to come down hard on Williams and the Saints. I understand players on defense are going to look to injure because of the sport, but through money/dirty hits is unacceptable.
I don't know, it's easy to say that because Fuck the Patriots but we're talking about potentially life-threatening, and most certainly career-threatening, injuries in a time when the life after a NFL career is in the spotlight. Players are going through hell physically and are having a tough time affording the medical attention they need. I know this shit has been happening for as long as football has existed but players are bigger, stronger, and more physical than ever and they are killing each other on the field with serious intent can lead to serious consequences. This is a story.
Agreed. The NFL views concussions and head injuries as a serious threat to the game. A bounty system encourages the knock out blow. That is not something that the league takes lightly anymore. Teams may have gotten away with it in the past, but the Saints are going to get smacked pretty hard for this.
I've got news for you: the Saints bounty program doesn't encourage knock out blows. The sport of football encourages knock out blows. It's an inherently vicious sport where you're taught to violently attack opponents from Pop Warner on up. Now I'm not saying that the Saints bounties are a good or tasteful thing, but if anyone thinks that getting rid of them will change a damn thing about the way that the game is played, they have another thing coming.
At first your like Greg Williams can't be a bad guy everyone does it. The more I think about it the more I wonder if this Bounty System took out Favre's last leg in Minnesota, Ended Warner's career and while with Washington started the whole Manning neck problems with this hit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nBxHse5s74 and then the recent interview with Tony Dungy this is very serious.
