I'm not sure if this is from the affidavit, but:

Gabe Feldman ?@SportsLawGuy
Williams-"The purpose of the pool as I designed it was to reward plays that helped achieve what the team was trying to achieve"

Gabe Feldman ?@SportsLawGuy
Williams-"I now understand it's possible that [the pool] could encourage players to injure other players...& should not be part of the game"

Gabe Feldman ?@SportsLawGuy
Williams-"it was my view and my intention that we were only encouraging clean, aggressive hits w/in the rules of the NFL"

Unfreaking real.

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Posted by motorbreath

New Orleans Saints fan

Member since Jun 2004

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Posted on 9/17/12 at 7:01 pm to Patrick O Rly

quote:
"I now understand it's possible that [the pool] could encourage players to injure other players...& should not be part of the game"

Wow if that's not GW placating goodell, I don't know what is.

Goodell reading the first draft: "I strongly urge you to add the word 'injure' in there somewhere"

This post was edited on 9/17/12 at 7:04 pm

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Posted by eyeran

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Member since Dec 2007

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Posted on 9/17/12 at 7:04 pm to Patrick O Rly

quote:
Gabe Feldman ?@SportsLawGuy
Williams-"I now understand it's possible that [the pool] could encourage players to injure other players...& should not be part of the game"

"...its possible that [the pool] could encourage players to injure other players."

So they're punishing the Saints for "possibilities" that never actually came true?

GW seems to agree with the players that there wasn't an intent to injure, but its possible that guys could have potentially gotten injured b/c of what the Saints were doing; tackling. Isn't that just football?

Thats a lot different than setting up a pool specifically to pay guys for injuring people.

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