The same reason that the Bounty thing got twisted from "pay for performance" to "pay to injure" without any real PROOF, except an uncorroborated story about Vilma, that other people who were in the room say never happened that way. It could be the same reason that Darren Sharper said from the very beginning -- it was an employee who got terminated, and has a vendetta against the Saints organization.

Disgruntled employee gets terminated, has a grudge against the Saints, against Payton and Loomis. Then he waits until the bounties thing has Loomis on the ropes, before he drops a dime on him. Why else would this "source" who is supposedly "familiar with game day operations" wait 8 years to bring this up? You would think they would bring it up either right after it happened, or right after the Super Bowl win. But the "source" waited. It almost has to be someone who was in the organization and was terminated.

This smells to me like somebody is trying to take down Mickey Loomis. It hurts him regardless of whether it is factual or not. I would not be at all surprised if the origin of this story was the same exact person who was the origin of the "bounty" story.

Now if Jim Letten comes out and says he finds something there, then I will absolutely be the first one to throw Loomis under the bus and call for him to be burned in effigy. I trust Jim Letten, but I don't trust an unnamed "source" talking to ESPN.

LOL!

Watching the NFL SportsCenter Special right now. Bill Polian, Hugh Douglas, and Marcelus Wiley (I think) are all being pretty supportive. They're basically saying that even if this is true, the information would be essentially worthless. If Loomis heard all the calls, he'd almost have to be some sort of savant to decipher what they mean before the play got off, nevermind communicate them to someone on the coaching staff.

Well the things is, regardless of whether or not he communicated the info (assuming it is true for what I'm saying), it is a violation of NFL rules and a federal law

But that's the point, right? Why would he risk going to the jail, monetary fines, loss of his job, and punishments for his team to gain no competitive advantage? I mean, I guess it could be some weird voyeuristic fetish thing...

Furthermore, if it's so easy to "re-wire" some crap and listen to opposing teams, then Loomis was the first to figure it out?! Lol, this story is such a freaking joke. Nevermind the fact that the NFL has people in place to monitor those frequencies already. My god, how this story has any legs is beyond me because it's absolutely absurd.

It only has legs because ESPN has become the Weekly World News when it comes to sports and they broke this false story, I can not wait for the season to start so they have to talk about football not the BS behind the sences

In '02, '03, '04 we didn't even make the playoffs; apparently Loomis was listening to the wrong people... :doh: :whatever:

Well I'm sure he thought it fine since he wasn't relaying the information per-se. Just a better way to enjoy the game. (Again, for what I am saying we are assuming it is true)

No need to wait for the season, the draft is less than 3 days away