I thought the (bounty)ruling would happen this week?
 

No bounty punishment, yet | ProFootballTalk

Two weeks ago, when the league dropped a bounty bomb late Friday afternoon, the release identified the crime without specifying the punishment.

Within a day, multiple reports indicated that discipline would come within one or two weeks. Last weekend, multiple reports indicated that the sanctions would be imposed by the end of this week.

It’s now the end of this week — the second week since the situation arose — and there has been nothing yet.

Don Banks of SI.com reports that the ruling is expected in the coming week. He’s probably right, because on March 25 owners will begin to gather in Palm Beach. All along, it has been treated as a given that the punishment would be announced before the NFL’s annual March get-together, given that the situation will be even more of a distraction if the decision is still pending.

But what would create the bigger distraction, the absence of a decision on punishment or an announcement of extensive and unprecedented penalties only a couple days before the meetings convene?

At this point, it may be better to let it ride.

Or maybe the best approach would be for Commissioner Roger Goodell to announce the discipline at a press conference to conclude the meetings? This approach would limit the media’s opportunity to formulate the most meaningful questions possible, and it wouldn’t put a dark cloud over the meetings because the meetings would be over.

Even if the Commissioner announces the penalties in this fashion without notice to the media, the media would at least have an opportunity to ask questions — and Goodell would have a chance to hammer his message home by explaining himself not through a release that pops up on a slow Friday afternoon but by saying in his own words why strong measures were needed, and how important it is that this kind of behavior never happen again.

It's always been projected to come after March 25-28th meetings. All the punishment being handed before hand was speculation. I tend to not listen to that.

Hey, but Adam Schefter said blah blah blah, so it must be true. He get his news before it happen most times right!!!!

F**K Adam Schefter - I ever see that guy I'll lead in with a triple jump just before kicking him in the jewels...

Same goes for Peter King and his sidekick Florio the Circus Boy...if any of 'em have a pair...

The evil Doctor Skippy and that latent cissy Tedy Bruschi...no soup or gumbo for them!

Yeah, I'm puttin there names in me book - Happy St. Pat's Day

Oh, by the way, the players union had also asked the league delay the damage until they could do their own investigation...

http://give-me-a-break.com/wp-conten...estigation.jpg

Yeah, and that request was denied by the league.

So I wonder what Benson and Payton had to say to Goodell?

Sounds like there was a whole bunch of over-reacting to the story and Goodell realizes that it will be kind of hard to punish the Saints when most of the guilty culprits (with the exception of Vilma) are not on the team anymore. Go ahead, suspend our head coach... he turned over play calling duties to Carmichael last year anyways. Even if they take away draft picks, the Saints don't rebuild through the draft like other teams (Tampa, I'm talking about you.)

Tampas doing a hell of a job rebuilding through Free Agency this year...

Not really. Vincent Jackson has never had a badass season with a semi-elite QB throwing to him in Rivers... you think Freeman and Jackson are going to light it up??? They signed Nicks... but since when has a mediocre team been immediately made better by a left guard? Then we come to Eric Wright... one of the worst cornerbacks in the league. We lit him up twice last season so that's a fact. Let's not forget, the Bucs have a completely new coaching staff and this isn't the Big East it's the NFL and they don't have to beat Syracuse anymore... they have to beat the greatest quarterback in the league twice a year lol!

Their O-line was already pretty good without Nicks, so I think they'll be even better next season with him added to the mix.

But the rest I can digest without an argument. ;-)

This is why you shouldn't listen to anyone really, especially media.

I also think the delay is in part because they didn't realize how bad this INCENTIVE PROGRAM that players run is embedded in every fiber of every team.

They could call the first ever press conference in Prime Time. They can call it the Commissioners State of the Union. Pay Per View here we come!

I'm really hoping they take away our first rounders......
when was the last time we selected someone in the 1st who actually earned their pay.......?

"crickets, crickets"

id trade our 1st every year for extra picks in 4, 5 and 6....lol

I hope we don't lose any draft picks at all and it's just fines and suspensions...

Well, I know it's subjective to some extent, but I do think the Saints have done a pretty decent job with their 1st round picks in recent years:

2004: Will Smith
2005: Jammal Brown
2006: Reggie Bush
2007: Robert Meachem
2008: Sedrick Ellis
2009: Malcolm Jenkins
2010: Patrick Robinson
2011: Cameron Jordan
2011: Mark Ingram

All of these guys earned the pay with maybe the exception of Ellis, who hasn't performed to the level at which a 1st rounder in expected to, but nevertheless, that is some very solid drafting since there are no real busts among them.

I think that list is favorably comparable to most other teams' 1st round draft picks during the same time span.

It's going to happen sometime this week.

Got a feeling they going to let the Manning hysteria cool down before they dish out the Saints punishment ..... any day from now to Friday