Cole Evidence called into question: League revises its ledger leak
 

Cole initially reported that the ledger reveals that three $1,000 payments were made as a result of the Saints’ September 2009 game against the Bills. After PFT pointed out that four Bills were injured during the game and that three play defense, Cole’s report was revised to replace the game against the Bills with the November 8, 2009 game against Panthers.

League revises its ledger leak | ProFootballTalk

Which brings into the question can any players be punished for what happened before the 2011 CBA?

I say if that is the case and this goes to court someone on the NFL's side better have something dated 2011 of this gets over turned.

Apparently there was only one cart off in the Panthers game..


Stay tuned for a third leak... Interesting they are saying someone in the NFL misread the ledger... Must not be very clear who was paid for what on that "ledger"..

When I was watching NFLN last night, they had Cole on via phone and he said that the Bills game was not one of the two games that had an exclamation point accompanying the $1,000 payment, which they assume means that the in game cart off resulted in the player being carted off being put on IR. Cole said that he was still trying to figure out what games those were.

And he was just talking about games in 2009, nothing later than that. Also he did say that the ledger was handwritten and by an assisting coach under GW, but refused to say anything more detailed in order to protect the person who had written the ledger.

The video report Cole released yesterday has been removed.
Hand written, no author, and no one to corroborare it's use or existence..that is one spade tight piece of evidence.

I love how the league can't show the union or the players the evidence but information can get "Leaked". What a bunch of horse sh!t! Yeah cuz none of this looks funny..I am so over this crap!

Double Leak Required
 

This is becoming GAME OVER for the NFL. Their evidence is SO SHADY that they have to leak it Yahoo sports without announcing it or sharing it with the public, then they get the facts wrong and have to re-leak it to correct it.

The NFL cannot be trusted and their totalitarian practices, combined with the monopoly they hold in this profession, need to be looked at as criminal mischief and tampering.

Nothing the NFL has strategically leaked means anything. None of it would stand any scrutiny and it looks like this is just another attempt by the NFL to sway public opinion.

Why leak this stuff? Why refuse to show it to those 'convicted' already? Good questions and I think we all know the answer...

Saintfan hit it on the head!!! Without information they leak unreliable info so that the public will believe it. People are sheep and will listen to anybody without evidence and then make a decision on guilt.
Baaaaaa Baaaaaaa Baaaaaaa

Sue Cole.

Beat me to it. Add Cole to the list getting sued after Goodell loses

Alright, I'm on board with all of you conspiracy theorists!!! I was a holdout, thinking that surely there was no real reason the NFL would lie, but the more I see about this issue the more it's blatantly obvious that something stinks. A lot of shadiness around this whole thing.

Is it possible to sue Cole for defamation?

:popcorn:

He made sure not to mention any names in his report but I don't think that alone could clear him. He made a generalized statement about a specific aspect of the team during a specific game. Any of those players could say it was slander IMO.

LOL $1000 ? Really ? These guys make that for 1 minute of work. Thats like $1 to them,lol. I don't think a player would even spend the time to pick up that check.
Thats like trying to pay a professional hit man $5 to kill your wife,lol. Then claiming it on your tax return.

Who & why would the Saints keep a ledger. It doesn't make sense.

Exactly! The more this goes on, the worse it's looking for ol' Goodell & Co.

I don't see how any of this could stand up in a court of law unless they have a witness who either wrote the ledger or saw first hand what was going on. Either way, I saw the report from Vilma's lawyer that said the ledger awarded players for clean hits and punished for illegal ones.

Heck when they've patched up dem leaks and got the . cough..cough... evidence running, they have to publicise other stuff to account for the alleged continuing bounty program in 2010 /2011.

Gosh! we will be flooded with leaked . cough..cough... information!

The Biggest question of them all is, when does the NFL and Media stop the slander against the Saints. Damn you know their angry that we won the Superbowl. I guess we'll have to win it again this year. They all need to go truck themselves.

Jonathan's Texts
Jonathan Vilma (jonvilma51) on MogoTXT
Jonathan Vilma:
Not a pay for performance ledger, a bounty. A document that has an amount on a player I tried to injure.
Sent 4 hours 4 mins ago
Jonathan Vilma:
why doesnt he "leak" one single document that has a bounty on a player and the amount??? That would shut me up
Sent 4 hours 5 mins ago
Jonathan Vilma:
I've been asking the nfl for evidence for 2mos and got nothin but somehow a ledger gets "leaked"...and the leak was wrong! lol I love it
Sent 9:04:51 AM Sat Jun 2 '12

Vilma doesn't seemed very worried, does he?

Misinformation is all this is team needs to slam it down all these peoples throats and walk away with that trophy period.

Arrogance of Goodell and the NFL re: Vilma
 

Vilma isn't going to. Remember this case is strictly Vilma v. Goodell, not the NFL and their "Bountygate" in general.

The goal is for the defense to bring the NFL into the discussion so ALL the evidence can be discovered. This "leger leak" is exactly what the plantiff's (Vilma) attorney expected and wants.

It's like the NFL and commissioner are playing into the hands of Vilma and his legal team like a guard dog incapable of overlooking a ribeye steak thrown on the ground. Goodell's, and the NFL's, arrogance and reckless behavior are on trial in the court of public opinion and with each one of these "leaks" people are losing more and more faith in these nazi's.

At this point, there isn't a jury in America that has faith in Goodell and the NFL. This will work against them IN THE EXTREME.