The NFL has nailed the Saints after learning that they had a bounty system and now they are going to have a different head coach for the next season as their head coach for the past 6 seasons has been kicked out of the NFL for the 2012 season. So Payton is in trouble because their defense had a bounty program that awarded their players for injuring or knocking a player out of a game and they received money as their award. Sean Payton will probably continue to be the head coach of the Saints after the one season exile and it will be very interesting to see what will happen to Drew Brees who will be an unrestricted free agent at the end of the 2012 season after having the franchise tag put on him going into this off season which means he will not be franchised next season and he may want to get out of town and find a fresh start somewhere else. As it was a defensive bounty system so the person that has been hit the hardest is the new head coach of the Rams and former defensive coordinator of the Saints Greg Williams who brought the program in with him as he used it as the head coach of the Buffalo Bills and he will not be allowed to be apart of the NFL for an indefinite period of time and maybe not allowed back for a few seasons and now at the last second the Rams have been snowballed and will need to find a new head coach almost immediately. The Saints GM Mickey Loomis has been suspended for the first half of the 2012 season and also he will have to dip into his pocket and give the league a half a million dollars while assistant head coach Joe Vitt has been suspended for the first 6 games of the season so it will be a messy messy season in New Orleans maybe not like the 2011 Colts but everybody will be gunning for them because they have been embarrassing teams or the last few seasons.
The Saints were hit very hard for being caught for head hunting and lost their second round draft picks in 2012 and 2013 while Roger Goodell has sent e-mails to the other 31 teams in the league and has told them that if they are using a bounty system they will have to stop immediately. Then U look @ what happened or lack there of to the New England Patriots who were caught red handed by the league for stealing the other teams play calls and even did it on the biggest stage of all the Superbowl and they did not loss anything really except that since the league stepped in they have not won a Superbowl as they lost both to the New York Giants.
The NFL feels a lot stronger towards head hunting than stealing opponents' play calls
Tom Mehegan
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