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Goodell speaks on Saints cover up/damage control:
Posted on 2/3/25 at 3:54 pm
Posted on 2/3/25 at 3:54 pm
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Posted on 2/3/25 at 4:00 pm to lsufan0582
Was it really a “cover up?” I thought they were offering PR assistance on claims that were out there and known. This isn’t a Penn State situation as far as I know.
I don’t agree with the team doing this at all. Gayle just has terrible judgment.
I don’t agree with the team doing this at all. Gayle just has terrible judgment.
Posted on 2/3/25 at 4:00 pm to lsufan0582
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transparents
leave the LGBTQ alone
Posted on 2/3/25 at 4:01 pm to SloaneRanger
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I thought they were offering PR assistance on claims that were out there and known. This isn’t a Penn State situation as far as I know.
I don’t agree with the team doing this at all. Gayle just has terrible judgment.
Right on all counts.
Posted on 2/3/25 at 4:03 pm to mdomingue
False
Saints executives were so involved in the church's damage control that a team spokesman briefed his boss on a 2018 call with the city's top prosecutor hours before the church released a list of clergymen accused of abuse. The call, the spokesman said, "allowed us to take certain people off" the list.
• Team officials were among the first people outside the church to view that list, a carefully curated, yet undercounted roster of suspected pedophiles. The disclosure of those names invited civil claims against the church and drew attention from federal and state law enforcement.
• The team's president, Dennis Lauscha, drafted more than a dozen questions that Archbishop Gregory Aymond should be prepared to answer as he faced reporters.
• The Saints' senior vice president of communications, Greg Bensel, provided fly-on-the-wall updates to Lauscha about local media interviews, suggesting church and team leaders were all on the same team. "He is doing well," Bensel wrote as the archbishop told reporters the church was committed to addressing the crisis. "That is our message," Bensel added, "that we will not stop here today."
The emails obtained by AP sharply undercut assurances the Saints gave fans about the public relations guidance five years ago when they asserted they had provided only "minimal" assistance to the church. The team went to court to keep its internal emails secret.
Saints executives were so involved in the church's damage control that a team spokesman briefed his boss on a 2018 call with the city's top prosecutor hours before the church released a list of clergymen accused of abuse. The call, the spokesman said, "allowed us to take certain people off" the list.
• Team officials were among the first people outside the church to view that list, a carefully curated, yet undercounted roster of suspected pedophiles. The disclosure of those names invited civil claims against the church and drew attention from federal and state law enforcement.
• The team's president, Dennis Lauscha, drafted more than a dozen questions that Archbishop Gregory Aymond should be prepared to answer as he faced reporters.
• The Saints' senior vice president of communications, Greg Bensel, provided fly-on-the-wall updates to Lauscha about local media interviews, suggesting church and team leaders were all on the same team. "He is doing well," Bensel wrote as the archbishop told reporters the church was committed to addressing the crisis. "That is our message," Bensel added, "that we will not stop here today."
The emails obtained by AP sharply undercut assurances the Saints gave fans about the public relations guidance five years ago when they asserted they had provided only "minimal" assistance to the church. The team went to court to keep its internal emails secret.
Posted on 2/3/25 at 4:05 pm to DamageInc
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Is this an AI article?
Never heard him talk before?
Posted on 2/3/25 at 4:05 pm to mdomingue
There is a whole espn article that outlines everything
The team did quite a bit more than give some advice
The team did quite a bit more than give some advice
Posted on 2/3/25 at 4:06 pm to Sauce Castieaux
Unless there's an email from the Saints describing how they covered up their own diddling ring, nothing will happen.
Posted on 2/3/25 at 4:08 pm to saintsfan22
I mean you're right. Nothing will come of it. As Roger has already outlined.
Just pointing out that they did more than just give PR advice.
Just pointing out that they did more than just give PR advice.
Posted on 2/3/25 at 4:11 pm to lsufan0582
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“I’m confident that they are playing nothing more than a supportive role to be more transparent”
The Saints probably referred the Archdiocese in NOLA to the same public relations firm the NFL uses for controversial games and player mishaps.
Posted on 2/3/25 at 4:13 pm to Sauce Castieaux
Nothing written there said the Saints gave anything more than PR advice.
We have such a simple minded society. Point your hate to the people who molested children. It’s not that difficult.
We have such a simple minded society. Point your hate to the people who molested children. It’s not that difficult.
Posted on 2/3/25 at 4:15 pm to PELsu
I'm more than capable of being mad at many people.
You dont have to push hard for me to say F the church. Screw em.
You dont have to push hard for me to say F the church. Screw em.
Posted on 2/3/25 at 4:20 pm to PELsu
Using your team resources to help guide them through this is still a really , really bad look. Did they diddle kids? No. Did they help them cover it up? No.
Is it extremely gross to use your machine to help them navigate through kid diddling ? Yes very much so.
Is it extremely gross to use your machine to help them navigate through kid diddling ? Yes very much so.
Posted on 2/3/25 at 4:26 pm to BilJ
So Goodell railroads the Saints over bogus bounty-gate BS but now that they assist pedophiles they are good corporate citizens? Does this man ever do anything right?
Posted on 2/3/25 at 4:28 pm to Sauce Castieaux
Everything you listed falls under the heading of PR advice.
Is it a dumb thing to do? Yes.
Is it part of a coverup to avoid prosecution? I am not so sure.
If it turns out that it was indeed aiding a coverup, then I am all for whatever the league and/or law enforcement do to come down on them.
Is it a dumb thing to do? Yes.
Is it part of a coverup to avoid prosecution? I am not so sure.
If it turns out that it was indeed aiding a coverup, then I am all for whatever the league and/or law enforcement do to come down on them.
Posted on 2/3/25 at 4:31 pm to PNW_TigerSaint
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So Goodell railroads the Saints over bogus bounty-gate BS but now that they assist pedophiles they are good corporate citizens? Does this man ever do anything right?
He answers to a bunch of owners that do a lot worse than offer pr advice. Bountygate was all about pr so he probably understands it.
Posted on 2/3/25 at 4:40 pm to lsufan0582
Posted on 2/3/25 at 4:41 pm to lsufan0582
Posted on 2/3/25 at 4:48 pm to lsufan0582
Looks like my thread from earlier was correct. Imagine that 
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