Question for the Forum
 

Is there a chance that Payton is so upset over his suspension that he resigns?

No.

He will probably make the most out of his mandated vacation and enjoy some extra time with his family while game planning for the 2013 season.

I would've said that maybe when hell freezes over, but I guess that has already happened...



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Definitely NO! He's so competitive that there will be a burning desire to take control again & show the NFL what they missed out on in the 2012 season. And he will take no prisoners!

It has crossed my mind that he might freak out and eat lots of vicodin.

Seriously. Who knows?

Then he'd be the second Saint to ever walk away from the game because he rather smoke weed in stead of make millions of cash playing football.

Yea...in 2009. ;)

I mentioned something to this effect in another thread. I hope he is so pissed that when he and others return next year that he tells the offense to score at will and don't stop until the final whistle sounds.

... yeah, happens every year ... Hell, Michigan 48169 ... quaint little town, about an hour or so west of Detroit ... not bad fishing. I've been to Hell and back, :mrgreen: ... latitude 42.434N/longitude -83.985W, elevation suprisingly 889ft, not way down somewhere as previously thought. Keep those coordinates in my handheld GPS, just in case somebody needs to know where Hell is or how to get there ...

... and "no", Payton isn't resigning ... if anything, he's coming back with a vengeance, like a man who has been to hell & back.

Maybe he'll do some investigative reporting/photography on Goodell!

Or just stay home and mow the yard of that new mansion with a Goodell Sucks T-shirt on...

He's a fighter. He will not resign & neither will the team!

Uh, I think his personality would be one to sit out and take the entire year plotting his revenge!

No. He will not and should not resign.
I am starting to believe maybe, being maybe too hopeful here, after owners' meeting, lawyers talk, maybe that absurd and most severe punishment will be reduced to 8 games.
Goodell would then have to back track. He, personally , would not want to do that.
NFL is a company owned by private companies/people. Goodell is who they hired. It is tricky as I see it because he was hired to sort of be CEO/Pres of their compnay. He works for them. Benson is an NFL owner, but still, he is not Kraft or Jerry or Deceased Al Davis who moved his team back and forth so much, or Irsay.
Mara. Bigger names. Older names in the NFL and with way more money , clout.
I really think this was way too severe.
I do not, not support a bounty and crippling opponents.
There needed to be punishment but it is now going to the absurd. Congress wants to investigate? Investigate what?
There is nothing else the NFL should do in terms of punishment.
It is over and done, last week's news.

:bng:

Here's a good link on the Congress getting involved ... it's such a stupid move I didn't figure it rated it's own thread ... and it's a NOLA link too, :wink:.

New Orleans Saints' bounty situation has U.S. Senate's attention | NOLA.com

He should look at like this. I have a year long vacation. Go hang out with the wife and kids. Sit back relax watch some football. Then come back and KICK SOME A$$

He will not resign, but the possibility of him being severed by Benson at some point in the future is still kinda real, but let's not talk or think about it right now -- neither scenario is happening short term in the here and now, so we shouldn't worry too much about it. I mean a piece of space junk might re-enter the atmosphere and fall on Sean Payton during the off season, too, I'm just as worried about that scenario as I am about him quitting the Saints.