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Monday, May 21st, 2012
Jonathan Vilma hopes his lawsuit filed against NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell will lead to a lessening of his penalty, which currently sits at a one-year suspension, for his role in the New Orleans Saints' bounty program. But plenty of other players will be keeping an eye on the case, at ...
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Monday, May 21st, 2012
The nightmare that is the New Orleans Saints offseason continues. First the bounty scandal that rocked the NFL world shook out, and now it's the slow movement of Drew Brees's contract negotiations. Let's not forget Jonathan Vilma filing a defamation suit against NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell for 'false' statements in ...
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Thursday, May 17th, 2012
NFL training camps begin in just over two months and Drew Brees is still unsigned. Realistically, the All-Pro quarterback has exactly two months to come to an agreement with the Saints, because once July 16 arrives he'll be forced to either sign long term, sign his $16.4-million franchise tender or ...
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Wednesday, April 25th, 2012
To nobody's surprise, New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton has been extremely quiet since the bounty scandal excrement hit the fan nearly eight weeks ago. Payton made an appearance at the owners meetings in March, but he's now suspended for 2012 and no longer able to discuss football with ...
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Wednesday, April 18th, 2012
In regard to the New Orleans bounty scandal, no game is referenced as often as the 2009 NFC championship tilt between the Saints and Vikings. You know, the one in which Brett Favre was nearly decapitated by super-aggressive Saints defenders. Jared Allen had a sideline view of the barrage of hits ...
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Tuesday, April 17th, 2012
At this time last year, there was plenty of hoopla around what NFL teams were going to be doing since they couldn't be working out at NFL facilities or with coaches due to the lockout. Some teams weren't getting together at all. Some teams had voluntary groups of players getting ...
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Thursday, April 12th, 2012
The New Orleans Saints are now in the process of moving on from the bounty gate scandal as the NFL’s league office has upheld the decision to suspend Sean Payton, Gregg Williams and Mickey Loomis. Here at SRI we've brought you commentary from every angle, including from former players and ...
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Tuesday, April 10th, 2012
The NFL's league office has yet to rule on any penalties regarding current players who were involved in the New Orleans Saints bounty scandal. Darren Sharper, a key defender, on the Saints’ 2009 Super Bowl championship team was angry that someone leaked word of a bounty program. The playmaking safety then ...
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Monday, April 9th, 2012
Hollis Thomas left the New Orleans Saints in the same offseason Gregg Williams arrived, and so Thomas can't give us a first-person account of the bounty scandal that has rocked the Saints and the New Orleans football community. That said, Thomas did play under Sean Payton and with several of ...
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Monday, April 9th, 2012
Steve Breaston doesn't quite know what to make of the situation in New Orleans with the bounty investigation. That's because he said well before the situation developed that he believes it's a defender's job to dish out hard hits on players like him who are going across the middle and ...
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