BOUNTYGATE PENALTIES
 

BOUNTYGATE PENALTIES: Sean Payton suspended one year. Mickey Loomis 8 game and $500,000 fine. Saints fined $500,000 and a second round pick in 2012 and 2012. Gregg Williams is suspended indefinitely.
http://www.sportsnola.com/sports/sai...ws/582705.html

Payton suspended for the year without pay
 

Just came out of NFL Network

That is bull$hit against Payton!!

NFL is chicken#$@& for this. Way too much to suspend Payton for a year.

Goodell just dropped far in my book.

Joe Vitt suspended 6 games too...

Okay. No biggie. Time to move on now. Carmichael can handle the offense, as can Brees himself. Spags will improve the defense. As far as fines, who cares. Loomis' 8 games is fairly meaningless beyond his personal pay. It won't have any affect on the off-season.

wow, that is F'ed up.

MF

Suspensions effective April 1st! cripples our offseason

Missed this. Thanks.

I bet we lose brees now

Goodell you're a real Nazi a-hole. This is such :censored:!!!!!!!!!!!!!

with the Franchise tag, he can't go anywhere this year...

OH MY GOD!!!

I hope Payton fights this ruling. I expected 6 to 8 games. This is bullcrap.

Maybe they will let me interim until Payton gets back on his feet...
Just give me the laminated play sheet and we'll be fine.

I'm guessing Spaggs will be interim head coach/DC and Carmichael will handle the offense. OH MY GOD!!!

We'll be fine. We had a trial run last year with the leg. Drew knows the O, Carmicheal knows what he is doing and the team already has a contingency plan. Spags was a H/C so he can pick up some slack. Saints stay healthy and we go to the playoffs in spite of all this. Now, I really want us to win. That would be hilarious!

That’s insane.

That’s technically a longer suspension than Michael Vick got for federal gambling charges, Ben Roth got for 2 rape accusations, and Bellicheck got for ACTUALLY CHEATING.

Relax. No biggie. Time to move on.

I will be cancelling my NFL Sunday Ticket package today. I'm done. If I come around and decide to start watching, I'll hack the games on the internet or something. Sad...just sad...

I'm going to put a hit out on Goodell for doing this **** to us!!! this so much BullCrap!!!!!!

I hate to say it but I think the league has it out for us. They don't want us to be good. Roger Goodell, you can go $&@&$@$$@&$$@$$@& yourself!

the entire year is just insane

SHOCK AND AWE!

And we still have the players penalties to go at some point

and Loomis is not suspended until September so that's good...

Might as well dump Vilma now, he'll probably be suspended for the year as well

Only problem is with the leg is that he was still coaching. Was at the game in the booth, at practice, the locker room. I may be wrong but I don't think he can come anywhere near the team for a year.

Can it be appealed?

Roger godell is a b$#@t

Looks like he wanted to guarantee us NOT playing in our own city for the SB this year.

Will Payton be able to have any contact or what? Surely he will seeing he needs to be part of the off season signings

I think that this is something the team will rally around. The two 2nd round picks isn't bad, I was expecting worse. Losing Payton for a year is tough but Carmichael called the plays last year after Payton hurt his knee and Spags is more than capable of stepping into the interim HC/DC job. We'll be fine.

I do think that within the next week, the front office needs to make a strong push to get Drew signed to a long term deal so he can show his support for the team and Coach Payton.

It will make it all the more sweeter in the end when Goodell has to hand us the Lombardi trophy in New Orleans at the end of the season.

Let's hope it winds up in court just like the supplemental ban. Those guys played for a couple of years.

Definitely!

Payton is suspended April 1st, Loomis suspended September

Coach Brees what is your game plan?

I doubt Goodell will let Payton appeal...

Hope somehow we make it to the SB and we can get that commissioner ******* in Louisiana or Mississippi. Even if we don't get there he will not be welcome in this town after letting the Pat's off like he did for out and out cheating. Knew there was something to pay for what was going on but to me this is ridiculous. Every other team has been involved with this to some point so the punishment does not fit the crime. More motivation for the players to slap him back in his face. It will be all the sweeter to make it back despite these penalities

No.

Saints coach Sean Payton has been suspended without pay for one year effective April 1, executive vice president and general manager has been suspended without pay for eight regular-season games, and the club will lose two second-round draft picks and pay a $500,000 fine.

Saints Hammered By BountyGate Punishment Including Payton Suspended One-Year, Draft Picks Lost