Sean Payton told to call if he talks

SaintsBro · 04-18-2012, 12:44 PM

I hate to go all Tin Foil Hat with this, but if you ask me, I feel like this is all a SET UP so they can BUST Payton for some other infraction, and tack on EXTRA to his suspension...

He can't have contact with the team, okay -- what about a phone call congratulating Drew Brees on beating Johnny Unitas' record when that happens, for instance. Is that allowed? Do they then cross reference the call by dragging in Drew to the league offices and interviewing him, asking if Payton talked about game plans or anything else? What if someone like Jeremy Shockey calls him out of the blue? He can't pick up? It's just crazy.

This whole thing is designed to set up an untenable, unsustainable position for Payton, with such ticky-tacky enforcement that it can't help but be broken. They are playing GOTCHA with him.

I mean fer crying out loud, Payton's got a beach house just down the beach from Loomis in Florida... is he not allowed to go jogging there, while they're both suspended, in case he sees Loomis on his porch and waves at him? OF COURSE they're going to go to dinner together, get together and talk, watch a game together, or do something, and IT'S A TRAP!

And the Commissioner will nail Payton on something vague and unspecified, like that, and say he "broke his suspension" with "unauthorized contact," and then Goodell will not want to reinstate Payton after the year is up.

That's why they mysteriously changed Payton's suspension from a originally a finite year to "he can reapply in a year to maybe be reinstated."

I'm in tin foil hat agony over this, I don't like being this way, but it is REALLY starting to look to me, like a personal vendetta by Goodell against Sean Payton, and a whip-cracking, "when I say jump, you say how high" taskmaster type of thing. To try and get rid of him.

ChrisXVI · 04-18-2012, 07:29 PM

How is this punishment even Constitutional?! Payton's pretty much put on house arrest and denied the ability to talk to any of his friends without getting Herr Goodell's consent. I'm sorry, but this is practically a criminal punishment by our legal system... how the hell does Goodell have this kind of power?! Giving one man all of the power over the NFL has to change.

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SaintsBro Site Donor Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: in line with my ridiculous CLEAR PLASTIC BAG Posts: 3,650 Blog Entries: 3	I hate to go all Tin Foil Hat with this, but if you ask me, I feel like this is all a SET UP so they can BUST Payton for some other infraction, and tack on EXTRA to his suspension... He can't have contact with the team, okay -- what about a phone call congratulating Drew Brees on beating Johnny Unitas' record when that happens, for instance. Is that allowed? Do they then cross reference the call by dragging in Drew to the league offices and interviewing him, asking if Payton talked about game plans or anything else? What if someone like Jeremy Shockey calls him out of the blue? He can't pick up? It's just crazy. This whole thing is designed to set up an untenable, unsustainable position for Payton, with such ticky-tacky enforcement that it can't help but be broken. They are playing GOTCHA with him. I mean fer crying out loud, Payton's got a beach house just down the beach from Loomis in Florida... is he not allowed to go jogging there, while they're both suspended, in case he sees Loomis on his porch and waves at him? OF COURSE they're going to go to dinner together, get together and talk, watch a game together, or do something, and IT'S A TRAP! And the Commissioner will nail Payton on something vague and unspecified, like that, and say he "broke his suspension" with "unauthorized contact," and then Goodell will not want to reinstate Payton after the year is up. That's why they mysteriously changed Payton's suspension from a originally a finite year to "he can reapply in a year to maybe be reinstated." I'm in tin foil hat agony over this, I don't like being this way, but it is REALLY starting to look to me, like a personal vendetta by Goodell against Sean Payton, and a whip-cracking, "when I say jump, you say how high" taskmaster type of thing. To try and get rid of him.

04-18-2012, 07:29 PM	#2
ChrisXVI 10000 POST CLUB Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Madison, WI Posts: 11,482	How is this punishment even Constitutional?! Payton's pretty much put on house arrest and denied the ability to talk to any of his friends without getting Herr Goodell's consent. I'm sorry, but this is practically a criminal punishment by our legal system... how the hell does Goodell have this kind of power?! Giving one man all of the power over the NFL has to change.