WhoDat!656

The whistleblower or "snitch" in the Saints Bountygate scandal has allegedly been revealed. According to local New Orleans author Alan Donnes in a Tuesday interview with America's News Radio Network, it was Saints defensive quality control Coach Mike Cerullo who first alerted the league about Gregg Williams' bounty program.

But the other equally interesting tidbit from Donnes' radio interview that seems to have fallen through the cracks is the fact that some of the evidence supplied by Cerullo to the NFL may not have even been real, an hypothesis many Saints fans have posited since news of the scandal first surfaced:


From a source, in the situation, some of the materials - printed materials - that the whistleblower turned in were suspect and may not have actually been real. And I think Roger Goodell overreacted and now he can't get out of it. And look, the Saints aren't, y'know, virgins here, but they're not the evil guys they're being made out to be.

If true, this may very well explain why NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and the league have been so tight-lipped about the 10,000 documents and 50,000 pages of evidence they claim to possess. This theory that Cerullo forged evidence would also seem plausible if it's true that, as Donnes revealed, "he believed that it was Gregg Williams and Sean Payton and others in the Saints organization blocking him from getting other work." That would be a potentially legitimate motive.

And it really doesn't matter how much evidence may actually be bogus, because even if it's just a single page it opens a Pandora's Box of questions as to the validity of the entire Bountygate accusations. What other evidence might be phony? Who is checking and looking over this evidence? Everything can and should now be questioned.


Bountygate Evidence May Have Been Fake - Canal Street Chronicles

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RaginCajun83

My opinion since day one .... I knew the NFL and Goddell were full of bull, Goddell has to look like he is all about player safety because of the lawsuits that are about to happen by the ex players due to their health problems after football and he had the perfect sacrificial lamb in the Saints. I just don't understand why Payton and Loomis took it on the chin like they did but sometimes your job gets in the way of your morals and I can't say I blame either one for falling on the sword to get their jobs next year going foward

WhoDat!656

And all the usual suspects will be running stories of how Goodell and the league mis-treated the Saints when this comes out!

AsylumGuido

Very interested. Listen to the whole audio. Very telling.

iceshack149

Those dang sissy Vikings.

saintfan

Sent the link to Yasinskas. LOL

Rugby Saint II

Everybody calling for our head may be calling for God-alls head when everything is out in the open.. NFLPA do your job and get a copy of the 10,000 page documents and let us know what is going on.
I wonder, if God-all finds out some info was bogus would he try to hide it from the public? I smell a cover up!! Do as I say not as I do.

TheOak

Those calling for our heads will continue to do so, their argument will forever fall back on GW's audio which wasn't fake.

I hope mic's and cameras are never allowed in the locker room again. The public's obsession with "knowing everything" is absurd.

saintfan

No, the audio wasn't fake, but it WAS edited. The part at the end where he essentially said to play aggressive but by the rules was conveniently not presented.

burningmetal

Precisely, saintfan