re: Player suspensions

Smith and Vilma being suspended does not concern me nearly as much as a saftey or CB. Harper would be one thing. Jenkins is devastating IMO

Well are they just going to let porter skate? Im sure he got a big check for that int against manning. If they going to dish out suspensions they need to be fricking fair. But this arse hat will never do that.

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who knows, Porter is still denying bounties existed to this day.

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Not on our team, who cares.

Losing Greer or Jenkins would be devastating.

just don't forget about this guy he will be a factor...42

Abdul-Quddus , Isa
Safety
he played very well.....

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Vilma: 8 weeks or the season.

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Trade him or get rid of him - too much money against the cap and too much negative attention. Give the job to Dunbar

I think Goodell's gonna hammer Will Smith. Doesn't matter so much what he may have actually done.

Remember, they were after him for the StarCaps thing. I get the sense that Roger's a vindictive little cuss, and this will be the chance for him to tack on a few extra games, just for spite.

I thought the same at first, but the more I think about it, I doubt there are going to be many suspensions at all.

I do think Vilma will get hit because he's been specifically implicated for the bounty on Favre, but I won't be the whole season or 8 games. I'm thinking more like 4-6 games.

There is a reason that Goodell didn't involve the NFLPA in this whole investigation process. Wouldn't you think Goodell would want their input on an issue he claims is about player safety??

He didn't include them because he knew the union would not have backed such harsh sanctions because so many of the members are involved in similar systems on other teams, or at least know the real motivation was not to injure, but merely promote aggressive play.

If Goodell slams Vilma the way he did Payton, he will have the entire union coming out and defending Vilma and attacking the investigation throughout a lengthy appeal process.

Goodell doesn't want that kind of backlash.

That's why he hammered Payton right off the bat and is waiting for the player suspensions. He wanted to keep the players quiet out of fear of suspension while the media pushes his "player safety" agenda without a response by players.

He knew that with Payton, he can get his point across and doesn't have to fight a union, but just pick off a lone target.

The lack of or very minor player suspensions that will come out will just go to show what a pussy Goodell was in this whole situation and show that it truly wasn't about player safety.

The player suspensions will not be announced until the week leading up to the draft, once the interest in the story has died down and so that they will quickly be brushed aside for draft coverage.

Vilma will be the one serious hit, and it will likely be 4-6 games because Goodell will hope that will be acceptable in light of Payton's suspension and may not even be appealed. Vilma will probably apply for a reduction which will be granted after 3 weeks or so.

IMO FWIW FTW

I'm a homer but UL cornerback Dwight Bentley may be available around the third round. I think that would be a good pick if we're looking to draft a DB there.