saintfan

How is the league going to manage to punish players for this pay-for-play thing? What 'evidence' do they have?

I mean, the league fines players regularly (and excessively IMO) for hits and such on the field - fines for which they have evidence, even if it's questionable in some cases.

But with this pay-for-play thing, is simply being mentioned in an email enough? If somebody (the snitch I guess?) SAYS that so-and-so player was paid such-and-such for "x", "y", or "z" hit, is that enough?

Consider the league has already indicated through it's actions that a player SAYING their team had similar pay-for-play programs, whether formal or not, is not enough to pursue sanctions against a given team or player. If that's the case, then what kind of 'evidence' can the league POSSIBLY point to as justification for actions against players?

That the program was going on at all and that they have even some shred of proof like emails and the like - I mean I can see where that could be enough to punish the leaders of an organization, I'm just not sure how they are going to have anything to point to other than some reference in an email to a payout, and do they even have that?

I guess what I'm saying is the NFL can't really prove anybody took any money. And if not, I'm wondering how they can ding a single player. I guess the NFLPA is going to ask the same questions?

C'mon Man...