re: Why do the idiots keep saying the coaches and front office admitted it?

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Where in that bold statement does it say they had a bounty program, knew about the bounty program, took part of a bounty program, or initiated it. They are saying they take the blame for what the NFL said they found. It happened under their watch and they should of caught it.




who said "bounty program"? If the NFL, then they admitted [to the NFL's findings]

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Payton probably didn't know what Gregg had going on and took responsibility for it because it happened under his watch. And he probably didn't know what the NFL had as evidence because he probably wasn't that involved with the defence. Pay for performance is also against the rules.

Vitt who is interim coach right now has come out and said over and over that there was no pay for injury or bounty program. He has said it publicly at least 3-4 seperate times or more. He is responsible for the team right now. Why would he say that if it wasn't true? Payton and Williams are suspended right now. If they talk, I'm sure they can get in more trouble. They do not have any protection. They are at the mercy of Goodell. Why can't you understand that?

Linked in another thread, but i thought it fit here as well..

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Vitt confirmed that he told league investigators that the Saints used terms like "cart-offs" and "whacks" (a legal hit that didn't result in injury), among other such details. Vitt, however, said he did not corroborate any of the league's more sweeping claims that the team had a "bounty" system in place.

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Vitt again stressed that he had never heard the word "bounty" until the NFL's investigators brought up the term earlier this year. And he denied the existence of any bounties or any bounty program being in place. Vitt admitted that a pay-for-performance program was in place but said the league never asked about a pay-for-performance program - which means he wasn't intentionally lying when he denied the existence of a "bounty" program.

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When asked why he and other suspended members of the Saints' management and coaching staff didn't put up much of a public fight when they were punished earlier this year, Vitt again said he didn't want to comment since the players' appeals process is still ongoing, but he said he would comment in the future. And he said part of the reason is that the coaches don't have the same kind of appeals process available to them that players have - and certainly not that most average people have available.

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