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Gray told Jim Wyatt of the Tennesseean he wanted his guys to play without regards to possible fines.

“If you are worrying about that, you are not going to go out and try and blow the guy up,” Gray said. “Great football players have to put that out of their mind. You have to say, ‘This is my territory between the numbers, and if you throw the football you better bring the Gator truck.’

“And that’s how you have to play. You can’t play timid in the NFL.”

The Gator is the green tractor/cart teams use to haul off injured players.


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"A Veteran is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to "The United States of America" for an amount of "up to and including my life."

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Titans are in a small market= Expect some form of official censure

All pigs are equal but Some pigs are more equal than others

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Appeals Panel reaffirms Roger Goodell's authority to levy sanctions in New Orleans Saints bounty scandal
10/05/12 10:54AM
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Larry Holder, The Times-Picayune

The final opinion of NFL's CBA Appeals Panel reaffirmed Commissioner Roger Goodell's authority to impose punishments on those players connected to the New Orleans Saints alleged bounty program in the panel's final decision dated on Thursday.

The three-person panel vacated the suspensions of Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma and defensive end Will Smith, along with former Saints defenders Scott Fujita and Anthony Hargrove four weeks ago. The panel stated then that Goodell didn't have the authority to punish those players for potential salary cap violations involving illegal bonuses connected to the alleged bounty program.

"Provided that the Commissioner does not impose discipline in whole or in part for the undisclosed compensation aspects of that program, the decision whether to issue 'conduct detrimental' discipline and the selection of the appropriate sanctions falls squarely within his (Goodell) exclusive jurisdiction," Richard Holwell wrote on behalf of the unanimous panel.

The opinion also stated a player's individual conduct on the field isn't directly implicated in the case, rather it's the players' participation in a program that sought to injure opposing players is why it falls into Goodell's jurisdiction whether or not any unsportsmanlike conduct actually occurred on the field.

Thursday's opinion stands pat with what the panel expressed when it originally vacated the suspensions.

"Nothing in today's decision contradicts any of the facts found in the investigation into this matter, or absolves any player of responsibility for conduct detrimental, nor does the decision in any way suggest what discipline would be appropriate for conduct that lies within the authority of the Commissioner," the panel stated four weeks ago. "Per the panel's direction, the Commissioner will promptly reconsider the matter and make a determination of the appropriate discipline consistent with the standards set forth in today's decision. All clubs will be advised when that decision is made."

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