Sean Peyton suspended for a year

[DrumNFeather]

Sean Payton has been suspended for the entire 2012 season for his role in bounty gate. Apparently they will also lose 2 second round picks.

[Donuthole]

Peyton Manning. Gary Payton. Sean Payton.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

Wow, that is insane. So the standard has now been set right? Next team with a bounty coach automatically gets a year. Or does the NFL get to go NCAA now and say case-by-case?

Seems like an overreaction to me.

[The_Tick]

Peyton out 1 year

GM Mickey Loomis out 8 games

Greg Williams (old DC in NO, current DC in St. L) suspended from the NFL indefinatly.

Lose 2nd round pick this year and next year.

Saints get a 500k fine.

NFL looking into sanctions against individual players. (Scott Fujita and Jonothan Vilma first.)

Yikes.

Plenty of NFL teams pounding out memo's as we speak.

[dabrockster]

Can't wait to hear Mike Gollic go ballistic tomorrow.. Maybe I should see if he has a twitter account.

[Drunk Tank]

Payton was suspended without pay. He stands to lose about 8 million dollars. Question is, does he stick around, does he get fired, or does he cut his losses and look for new employment? I am sure there will be an appeal, but does anyone ever win them in the NFL?

[Northwestcoug]

I'd expect a Belichik-like reaction. He's a winning coach, why would they gamble with another one?

[Color Me Badd Fan]

On top of that they haven't signed Drew Bree's to a long term deal. They franchised him, but he can just refuse to sign the franchise tender through July 16 and then sign a one year deal with another team. Drew Brees was trying to get himself a special exception from the franchise tag during the lockout last year. Brees was obviously livid when they placed the tag on him earlier this month.

Now without Payton and a GM, there's a real possibility that Brees will follow through on not signing a tender. What I wonder about is whether teams can restructure contracts and all that as late as July 16. Additionally, and I may be getting this mixed up with the NBA, but teams actually can't be too much under the cap at the beginning of the season -- I could be wrong though. If it were possible for teams to get $20 million under the cap, I would imagine there would be a dozen teams trying to get Brees on a one year deal.

[woot]

On top of that they haven't signed Drew Bree's to a long term deal. They franchised him, but he can just refuse to sign the franchise tender through July 16 and then sign a one year deal with another team. Drew Brees was trying to get himself a special exception from the franchise tag during the lockout last year. Brees was obviously livid when they placed the tag on him earlier this month.

Now without Payton and a GM, there's a real possibility that Brees will follow through on not signing a tender. What I wonder about is whether teams can restructure contracts and all that as late as July 16. Additionally, and I may be getting this mixed up with the NBA, but teams actually can't be too much under the cap at the beginning of the season -- I could be wrong though. If it were possible for teams to get $20 million under the cap, I would imagine there would be a dozen teams trying to get Brees on a one year deal.

That's a new one.

But seriously, it seems that the NFL is willing to enforce decency a lot more so than is the NCAA. Good for them.

[oxcoug]

If I'm Payton I'm putting a bounty on whoever suspended me.

[Tim]

I think the whole thing is bullshit. Punishing the Saints for something every team does, at least according to the former players I've seen and heard on ESPN, is a poor choice by Goodell.

[Pheidippides]

I think the whole thing is bullshit. Punishing the Saints for something every team does, at least according to the former players I've seen and heard on ESPN, is a poor choice by Goodell.

The Saints are the NFL's Hester Prynne.

[dabrockster]

I think the whole thing is bullshit. Punishing the Saints for something every team does, at least according to the former players I've seen and heard on ESPN, is a poor choice by Goodell.

I agree. These penalties are really heavy handed (Could be similar to the SMU punishment if you ask me).. From what I was able to hear on espn. Most of these bounty's were related to number of tackles for loss, interceptions, etc.. Not about actually hurting a player intentionally..

This is stupid and Goodell is worried more about image and it shows in his penalties to NOLA..

I have lost a lot of respect for Goodell on this one.. It wreaks to high heaven.

[oxcoug]

I agree. These penalties are really heavy handed (Could be similar to the SMU punishment if you ask me).. From what I was able to hear on espn. Most of these bounty's were related to number of tackles for loss, interceptions, etc.. Not about actually hurting a player intentionally..

This is stupid and Goodell is worried more about image and it shows in his penalties to NOLA..

I have lost a lot of respect for Goodell on this one.. It wreaks to high heaven.

I haven't seen evidence that organized, coach-sanctioned bounty programs were widespread - players on other teams talk about player instituted performance incentive systems. The Saints system seems to have been egregious compared to some of the others.

[beefytee]

I think with stuff like this, you can't say that the NFL is being heavy handed.

If they come off as being too soft on this, they are opening themselves up to some serious litigation.