Day after the "new suspensions were handed out and people have had some time to react i figure it's now my turn to react to something that has dragged on too long.
First and foremost as a player you do what your coach tells you, you don't question, you just do. If he says jump you don't ask how high you just jump as high as you can. If he says go out there and hurt someone, you go out you play as hard as you can and if you get a chance to really put a hit on someone you do it. Now if coach says go out there hurt Brett Favre and you get $10,000, honestly I'm gonna go out there with every intention to injure him because that $10,000 i didn't have before. Don't care who you are 10 grand is a lot of money. If someone asked me to go up to my best friend and hit him in the face with an object just to hurt him i would probably do it and then share some money with him because of what i just did. Point is money makes people do stupid things.
Which brings me to the point where how can you say that anyone is to blame except to man controlling it. Greg Williams is to blame for this, people who "participated" were doing what they were paid to do. They were just doing there jobs if they were to either question the coach or let up to not hurt anyone we the public would be all over that player. We have no sympathy for players who don't produce, or who let up. Yet now were backing suspensions for guys who were just doing as they were told. Am I saying you should go out and hurt people, absolutely not. I don't believe that players should have the intent to injure. But in saying that when you have 260 lbs of muscle running at someone to tackle him, getting injured just feels like something that's going to happen.
The suspensions are Vilma still gone for the season, Smith 4 games, Fujita 1 game, Hargrove 7. To suspend a player for a season i feel is absurd, like i said before he was doing what was asked of him by his coach. I also don't really understand the variation in suspensions. First of all how do you pick out 4 guys from a whole defence that participated. Now I understand what the NFL did and suspended the "main" participants, but the whole defence was apart of this whether they gave money or earned money.
From what i have gathered the NFL has yet to even prove that these players had any intent to injure. So how do you uphold suspensions to players that haven't been proven guilty? Baffles me how they can still keep people out of work without pay and haven't proved anything yet.
This whole situation i think is a little redundant because you have players in the NFL that don't need players to have a bounty on there head to hurt them and nothing happens to them. *cough* james harrison *cough*. So the message we (the nfl) is sending is that if coach says go hurt someone its wrong, but if you just gather up the feeling to go hurt someone go get'em tiger.
Roger Godell has done a lot of good things for the NFL and professional sports as a whole but he royally fucked up this one.
Finally they definitely could have found a better name than "the bounty gate scandal", it's accurate yes but there are better ideas out there.
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