Saints: Sean Payton suspended for 1 year.

[Turbine]

Good thing he didn't film the opponents practices -to steal signals- he might have been banned for life.

No better way to hurt a player than knowing where they will be, before they know themseves.

[RaginCajun77]

Good thing he didn't film the opponents practices -to steal signals- he might have been banned for life.

No better way to hurt a player than knowing where they will be, before they know themseves.

This.

[I_Bleed_RED]

It was part of the Super Bowl run...whether you want to believe it or not.

If they didn't have the bounty, I think they still would've won it. A couple of thousand dollars is nothing for NFL players. It's not like the money provided that much extra motivation. Because the reward was pretty small. Now would we have won without GW who brought the bounty system with him. I doubt it.

[cajunhawk]

If they didn't have the bounty, I think they still would've won it. A couple of thousand dollars is nothing for NFL players. It's not like the money provided that much extra motivation. Because the reward was pretty small. Now would we have won without GW who brought the bounty system with him. I doubt it.

You may be right...but we will never know.

[Boomer]

And this just in-----the new coach for the Saints in the 2012 season is ????????????? Do they go inside or actually get a new head man???? Very interesting---I guess the staff hopes all stays INSIDE with an intra-staff promotion for the season !!!!

[Crawfish]

Louis Cook?

[NewsCopy]

The NFL commissioner, noting, “I don’t think you can be too hard on people that put at risk our players’ health and safety,” delivered a hit that has sent shivers down the spine of the Saints’ franchise. Goodell’s biggest thunderbolt ...

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[NewsCopy]

New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton was suspended without pay for the 2012 season by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, and former Saints defensive coordinator Gregg Williams was banned indefinitely on Wednesday because the team's players ...

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[I_Bleed_RED]

It's going to be Pete Carmichael

[The Floridian]

Jerry Baldwin and his toothpick?

[CrazyCajun]

I guess we would never know if the patriots would have won 3 superbowls without actually cheating, or if anybody else could have won superbowls with pay for performance since every team has done it for 50 years

[CajunT]

This goes on on every team, every game. It's part of football. Payton was suspended to make the commisioner look good and I have to agree with another post ...to cover his butt and make it seem like he actually cares about players after they have left the NFL. Which they don't.

Regardless of wherther someone agrees with the punishment or not, Goodell would have never pulled this off against a Jerry Jones or Bob Kraft owned franchised. Neither owner would have laid down and taken these penalties like Benson.