Loomis says Saints won't ditch Vilma for Lofton

SaintsBro · 03-26-2012, 01:37 PM

After seeing the punishments given out to Payton and Loomis, I get the feeling that Vilma will get a hefty suspension and now that their eyes are opened, the Saints know it is coming. I see Vilma's suspension working kinda like Sean Payton's year-long suspension, which was intended to make the Saints want to fire him....although it didn't work (yet), that was clearly the intent of his and Williams' suspensions, to try and "get rid of them" by making their positions untenable with their respective teams. Vilma's will be even more so, because as far as the league is concerned, he is the poster boy for the whole bounty thing, they leaked his name on purpose.

I predict that all of these "bounty" players, the league wants to wash their hands of it and be rid of them ALL, for the lawsuit protection...to be able to tell the future jury, "see, when we heard about this, we took action and kicked them out of the league." Vilma's suspension will not be enough to officially "kill" him, it will be "just enough" to make him kryptonite to any team that wants to keep him on their roster, harsh enough to effectively finish him off as a player, without actually banning him per se. The league will "help" to get him out of football quicker, to the point where his age, uncertain physical status, and HUGE @$$ suspension will all factor in to making him unable to find work, as a player for the Saints or any other team.

I fear that the Saints will just end up having to take a lot of cap hits for defensive players who will not be playing most of the year, or at all, and they will HAVE to let those players go with the cap hits, simply in order to have enough bodies to have 11 men on the field on defense all season...forcing the Saints to move on to cheaper, lesser known players in a lot of positions. The cap hits from lost players are going to be the real teeth of the punishment for the team.

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03-26-2012, 01:37 PM	#16
SaintsBro Site Donor Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: in line with my ridiculous CLEAR PLASTIC BAG Posts: 3,650 Blog Entries: 3	After seeing the punishments given out to Payton and Loomis, I get the feeling that Vilma will get a hefty suspension and now that their eyes are opened, the Saints know it is coming. I see Vilma's suspension working kinda like Sean Payton's year-long suspension, which was intended to make the Saints want to fire him....although it didn't work (yet), that was clearly the intent of his and Williams' suspensions, to try and "get rid of them" by making their positions untenable with their respective teams. Vilma's will be even more so, because as far as the league is concerned, he is the poster boy for the whole bounty thing, they leaked his name on purpose. I predict that all of these "bounty" players, the league wants to wash their hands of it and be rid of them ALL, for the lawsuit protection...to be able to tell the future jury, "see, when we heard about this, we took action and kicked them out of the league." Vilma's suspension will not be enough to officially "kill" him, it will be "just enough" to make him kryptonite to any team that wants to keep him on their roster, harsh enough to effectively finish him off as a player, without actually banning him per se. The league will "help" to get him out of football quicker, to the point where his age, uncertain physical status, and HUGE @$$ suspension will all factor in to making him unable to find work, as a player for the Saints or any other team. I fear that the Saints will just end up having to take a lot of cap hits for defensive players who will not be playing most of the year, or at all, and they will HAVE to let those players go with the cap hits, simply in order to have enough bodies to have 11 men on the field on defense all season...forcing the Saints to move on to cheaper, lesser known players in a lot of positions. The cap hits from lost players are going to be the real teeth of the punishment for the team.