Coy Wire: Falcons don’t have a bounty system
Linebacker Coy Wire, the team's former alternate player representative, set up the team's ad hoc offseason training program.
Former Falcons linebacker Coy Wire, who orchestrated the team’s offseason program last year during the lockout, said the team does not have a bounty program.
Wire made the statement to the Buffalo News while discussing the bounty program that was in place with the Bills under Gregg Williams.
He also played for Mike Mularkey and Dick Jauron in Buffalo and said that neither coach had a bounty system.
During his tenure as defensive coordinator of the New Orleans Saints, Williams rewarded players for big plays and also for knocking players out of games, the NFL announced on Friday. Williams, who was recently hired as the defensive coordinator of the St. Louis Rams, admitted to the allegations and apologized in a statement.
In addition to Wire’s claims that the Bills’ had a bounty system, The Washington Post, reported that Williams had a bounty system in place while he was the Redskins defensive coordinator.
Williams was Buffalo’s head coach from 2001 through 2003. Wire was selected in the third round (97th overall) of the 2002 NFL Draft and said the program was in place when he arrived.
Wire, 6-0, 225 pounds, compiled 206 tackles, five sacks, one forced fumble, one fumble recovery and six passes defensed in nine NFL seasons between the Bills and Falcons. He was released by the Falcons in September.
Here’s what Wire told The Buffalo News.
During his time as Buffalo Bills head coach, Gregg Williams promoted cash bonuses for delivering hits that seriously injured opponents, former safety Coy Wire told The Buffalo News.
“There was financial compensation,” Wire said.
Three other defensive players from that era, speaking to The News on condition of anonymity, confirmed that a bounty system existed during Williams’ time with the Bills. Two of those players said cash bonuses were paid for “knockout shots” that sent opponents out of games.
A 2001 Stanford graduate with a sociology degree, Wire is a tireless reader with deeply held religious beliefs. His academic pursuits, coupled with a life-threatening neck injury in 2007, have led him to study the powers of the mind.
He was selected by his teammates for the Ed Block Courage Award winner in 2009 for being an inspiration to the squad.
Wire has been working on book, “Change Your Mind: 10 Unconventional Secrets to Retrain Your Brain” which is scheduled to be released this month.
With the league emphasizing player-safety, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is expected to deliver a severe punishment to the Saints.
Wire believes that would be a nice start.
“Goodell has to make an example of this,” Wire said. “All that we know now with brain trauma and head injuries, this isn’t just taking players out of a game. Significant changes have to be made to protect our players. A precedent has to be set now; otherwise, [Goodell] condones it.
“Things have to change. Football will always be football. There will be big hits. I’m saying there’s no need to ruin the livelihood of another man and cause harm to his family and children. That malicious intent doesn’t need to be a part of the way we play.”
The Falcons and the Saints have been bitter rivals since both teams entered the league in the late 1960s as expansion teams.
–D. Orlando Ledbetter, The Atlanta Falcons beat blog
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81 comments Add your comment
Ball hawk
March 4th, 2012
8:22 pm
This was a good read. At first you kinda hate to see some of the old school disappearing but Coy is right, it has to change.
C
March 4th, 2012
8:45 pm
The Saints deserve every bi of what is coming to them.
OC
March 4th, 2012
8:49 pm
I will only mention two examples of NFL players Roger Godell has fined for their “hits” in recent years – James Harrison & Duante Robinson. Remember I only named 2 left out Haynesworth, Suh, etc. So what is my point ? You know where this is going !!!! Those fines/suspensions pale in comparison to what Godell HAS to do to Sean Payton, Gregg Williams, etc for their blatant violations of the rules and the principles Godell insists on.
laofalcon
March 4th, 2012
9:00 pm
Wow i cant believe this, what did just happen? Dont you think Mr defensive coordinator of St Louis will do it again?
Mr. Swamp Man
March 4th, 2012
9:03 pm
HAHA, the rest of the rest of lege is scared, we will still make greg williams do the bounty sisten WHO DAT
JSS
March 4th, 2012
9:04 pm
The league has deeper problem than the Saints and what they did/or did not do to end this practice. Those crying for blood thinking it is “come up-ins” are missing the broader picture. Certain people have been saying it since day one of Goodell’s naming to the head spot that there were broader and darker issues in the under belly of how the NFL operates. I don’t trust the commissioner or his team to come clean on these matters. Set up a independent commission and give them the power of federal subpoena and get real answers.
Truedat
March 4th, 2012
9:06 pm
We are talking about the Saints. D lineman testing postive for steroids, no punishment. Steroid and other drugs being sold and provided in the Saints organization, little or no punishment, this big report comes out just after Greg Williams no longer works there… my guess is that they will say he’s gone now, we are really sorry and all will be forgiven.
Rollo Lawson
March 4th, 2012
9:09 pm
Nah, you don’t say!!
Rollo Lawson
March 4th, 2012
9:12 pm
As sorry as our defense has been the last few years, the bounty probably would have gone uncollected anyway.
Rollo Lawson
March 4th, 2012
9:19 pm
Word is, the falcons had a bounty system in place. But it kept rolling over every week like powerball, so they discontinued it.
Grandmaster JeJe (GM)
March 4th, 2012
10:15 pm
“He also played for Mike Mularkey and Dick Jauron in Buffalo and said that neither coach had a bounty system.”
“In addition to Wire’s claims that the Bills’ had a bounty system, ”
SO WHICH IS IT
Grandmaster JeJe (GM)
March 4th, 2012
10:16 pm
FIRE SUND
Grandmaster JeJe (GM)
March 4th, 2012
10:19 pm
SORRY MISSED THE 2ND PARAGRAPH.
FIRE SUND
4dabirds
March 4th, 2012
10:21 pm
The NFL is nothing but a hypocrite. They call the Saints out now, but the refs turned a blind eye and even helped the Saints with no calls and ticky tack calls in their SB year. They allowed the Saints to tee off on Favre in the NFCCG. They called a bogus defensive holding call on Peterson and took a great interception away from Grimes that year to help the Saints beat the Falcons. I love the NFL, but their integrity is not one of the reasons for it.
stan
March 4th, 2012
10:40 pm
UNBELIEVABLE….I BETCHA THE COMMISH ONLY GIVES A PAT ON THE HAND…..I BEEN A FAN OF THE NFL MY WHOLE LIFE BUT I HAVE TO SAY THE IS SUCH A DISGRACE….YOU WOULD THINK THE MONEY WOULD BE ENOUGH BUT I GUESS NOT…..BAN PAYTON AND WILLIAMS…..YOU DID PETE ROSE!!!
um
March 4th, 2012
11:12 pm
Wow, just another reason to hate the Aints
mark
March 4th, 2012
11:12 pm
Remember Matt Ryan’s first rookie game against Tampa Bay? About three head shots? Make’s you think….
D
March 4th, 2012
11:20 pm
Confirms that the Aints are scum. They deserve everything coming at them.
Ryan
March 4th, 2012
11:29 pm
I thought that the Saints were a dirty team back in 09. Gregg Williams said before the NFC title game that they were going to go at Brett Favre hard and take them out. The refs turned their eye to the cheap shots on Favre. The league wanted the aints to go to the Super Bowl because of hurricane katrina. It puts an asterisk next to their Super Bowl title. As if I could hate them anymore…. Drop the hammer Roger!!!! This ruins the integrity of the game..
what,what,what??
March 4th, 2012
11:30 pm
maybe,maybe we need one.
Ed H.
March 5th, 2012
1:05 am
This stuff has been going on for years. Why spazz over it now. Why was it ok for Buddy Ryan to do it back in the day?
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Najeh Davenpoop
March 5th, 2012
1:38 am
“Word is, the falcons had a bounty system in place. But it kept rolling over every week like powerball, so they discontinued it.”
LMAO
Najeh Davenpoop
March 5th, 2012
1:39 am
If you think Gregg Williams is the only coach that had a bounty system, I guess you probably think Barry Bonds is the only one who did steroids and Tim Donaghy was the only ref on the take.
Sly Ty
March 5th, 2012
2:44 am
Najeh Davenpoop im sure Williams isn’t the only one who has done this. However, he and the saints got caught after being given specific warning to discontinue the bounty system. The punishment will be unprecedented and extremely severe.
Sly Ty
March 5th, 2012
2:48 am
@Najeh Davenpoop: There will be fines, lost draft picks, and possibly even lowering the Salary Cap ceiling of the Saints for the next season. $500,000 to 2 million Salary Cap ceiling reduction against the Saints ensuring that the entire league think hard about maintaining such dangerous programs.
Sly Ty
March 5th, 2012
3:34 am
I am sure several teams have done something like this, but the Saints were warned and investigated over a 3 year period. I love the Falcons, and I am glad Coy Wire confirmed that our current coaching staff did not have a system like this. Brees has been Franchised, and this bounty system will DisenFranchise the Saints. It is darn shame.
Get Real
March 5th, 2012
5:15 am
Football is suppose to be a game for modern day gladiators. Goodell is ruining the game with the new rules. Targeting ect… Taking highlight plays and turning them into penalties. If you don’t want to get hit, stay off the field. Throw away your jock strap and start playing some pansy game like golf. As for these bounties its sad thats what it takes to motivate players to do their jobs. IMO all players should be signed to a base salary and performance incentives should be where you make the big bucks. Either produce or draw the league minimum. That way you’d free up a lot money to pay medical cost for true gladiators that give it their all.
E
March 5th, 2012
5:17 am
The falcons could’ve had a bounty program who in the HELL would have been the bounty when they rare got any hits with all those missed tackles. That’s funny Cory Wire!! they would not have bounties if it was legal with all those SOFT A** players………
A fan
March 5th, 2012
5:48 am
What is the reall differences between an incentive heavy contract, and a bounty system. I’m sure the verbage is different, but the intent isn’t. And is anyone believing that during some of our biggest games, and there wasn’t some inducement for getting out of in certain positions. Gentlemen’s agreements and such. The players have evolved by training to do these tings, and so you want the coackes gone now? Will the teachings go just as soon. If you believe so, then we should do this to our government. Also we need to take down every entitty that has incentives. I’m a falcon fan, and I think Sean Payton is a good guy. Greg has done this with at least th ree teams and we wanted him to work for us at one point. Where did the money come from? The players.
Get Real
March 5th, 2012
6:15 am
Supposedly in the Saints situation it came from players, in Buffalo it came from fines imposed from violations of team rules.
If the Buzzards aka Falcons had a bounty system it would have been 6 figures plus based on their play or lack of. Glad the coordinators are gone hopefully a lot of the players will get a ticket out of town too.
Paddy
March 5th, 2012
6:57 am
Untill we see what the Commish does on this subject, it is unfair to rip him. This is a very serious problem and must be tough sanctions to follow.
Nativebird
March 5th, 2012
6:57 am
And if you think Sean Peyton did not know and condone the Saints illegal bounty system, your just lying to yourself. Stripping of their Superbowl championship is not out of the realm. cheating is cheating.
ZACK
March 5th, 2012
7:05 am
Remember Peyton giving up some of salary to Williams to make sure he would come to New Orleans?!?!? HMMMMMMMMMMMMMM…………..
Ackshun
March 5th, 2012
7:50 am
If I was Goodell I wouild vacate the Saints championship, hold them out of the draft and free agency this year and ban Coach Williams for life. The reason, this strategy was pivotal to the Saints winning the championship game versus the Vikings in 2010. It’s wrong and it can’t be tolerated.
I usually just read but....
March 5th, 2012
8:01 am
“They call the Saints out now, but the refs turned a blind eye and even helped the Saints with no calls and ticky tack calls in their SB year”
RIGHT!!!
They should have left that “under sea level cesspool” just like Katrina fixed it. Instead, the NFL and everybody else in the country has made a “national sympathy case” out of the area. Even paid the cost of rebuillding an under sealevel city to have it destroyed again. STUPID!
I regret the loss of innocent life there, but anyone else building in such an area would have been on their own to take the loss.
trash town full of trash
Larry
March 5th, 2012
8:04 am
What a bunch of dummies.
Roger Goodell is the best commissioner in professional sports. He has courage, he doesn’t allow nonsense, he is swift and decisive, and he is easily the most respected commissioner in professional sports. He is the antithesis of that spineless, goofball, puppet, Bud Selig.
He will gather the facts, and if substantiated, he will punish both the Saints and Williams accordingly. He will not cave in like baseball did with Ryan Braun over a “technicality.”
More people watched the Super Bowl than any other program in history, and Goodell’s superbly run machine called the NFL is why. Quite candidly, anyone that criticizes Goodell business expertise and operations skills sounds pretty dumb and ignorant about leadership.
Or maybe you’re still mad about his swift and severe punishment he handed our to your boy that beat, drowned and electrocuted innocent, trusting dogs.
waynester
March 5th, 2012
8:11 am
“all players should be signed to a base salary and performance incentives should be where you make the big bucks” Get Real
Interesting idea, but would you enjoy the same arrangement at YOUR job? Would I? Probably not, but perhaps that’s why our country is in it’s current decline–a sense of entitlement coupled with greed. I know the Players’ Union would defecate golden nuggets if such a proposal ever came to pass, and I know some owners and GMs would cheat like hell–oh, waitaminnit, they do that NOW…..
AlanFalcon
March 5th, 2012
8:11 am
Williams should be disbard from the NFL for life , Payton and any other head coaches that Williams coached under should be required to sit out the entire season and given a hefty fine, the IRS can then go to work and collect unpaid taxes and team owners should be placed under an edict of losing their franchise if this persisit in the future. I do believe at this time that any players that choose to participate with other players in this type of gambling should also be disbard from the NFL for life.
Draft choices should be taken away from each and every team where proof exist that this occured.
N ough said, clean the leauge up for those fans that enjoy real football, street league rules such as these and the one’s that exist in pro basketball should not be allowed to exist.
Sid
March 5th, 2012
8:11 am
JSS
March 4th, 2012
9:04 pm
The league has deeper problem than the Saints and what they did/or did not do to end this practice………..
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What is this………misdirection and illusion? Smoking guns and mirrors? Saints and what they did/or did not do? To end the practice? Broader picture? Darker issues since Goodell arrived? Certain people? Man you are more full of it than that Najedavenpoop (no diesrepect meant to you Poop) fella.
And it’s not come upins……………..or are you idealizing the Fish House dude? You’re not even subtle trying to put spin on this knuckleball.
Jimmy Crack
March 5th, 2012
8:31 am
Laissez Les Tetes Roulez
biz
March 5th, 2012
8:32 am
Greg Williams is gunna get JACKED UP!!! 3 years ago (or less) the media glorified this type of behavior. Now….not so much.
Sid
March 5th, 2012
8:52 am
Look, we’ve all known the Saints play dirty, not new information. But I want to know if anyone else thinks the hit that took out Ovie Mughelli for the season (possibly career ending) wasn’t a bounty hit. If not a paid hit I have no doubt that Delmas took a direct shot to his knee at an angle that would almost certainly cause injury. Bounty or no bounty, it was intentional.
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Vance
March 5th, 2012
9:36 am
The bounty has been going on for years. The game is violent especially with the size of some of the players going 100 miles an hour. However, when there is intentional harm to a player that has nothing to do with the play towards the head or knee, it becomes criminal. These players have families and those big contracts don’t always pay off. Some of the Saints games this year and last got a little out of hand. It was so obvious that they need to look at the refs as well. Wonder if it was that NO VooDoo when actually it was cash floating around the dome.
David
March 5th, 2012
9:53 am
Well we all already knew the Saints have no class and their fans show the lack of class of the fan base every time they come here to play. I will no longer even go to the Falcons game when the Saints are here. But you watch, the Saints will only get their hand slapped for this. We still have the Katrina sympathy thing going on and man does it show. And it will show up again here as well. Sigh……….
Darren Corleyl
March 5th, 2012
9:53 am
you falcons are sore losers, the Saints won the superbowl fair and square. You all are just mad because the falcons have not won a SB will never win won. Falcons play dirty as well, the Saints have been beating yall the last couple years in the Georgia Dome, stop complaining and get rid of Ryan and those other clowns. Get it in your head Saints are a superbowl team.
PlanB
March 5th, 2012
10:13 am
Hard hitting is one thing. Head hunting and career knee injuries is another thing and should not be accepted but we seem to be living in world where common sense is no longer used. I’ve seen blows to QB’s head not called. I’ve seen a hand barely touch a QB’s head and is called. Common sense should make the rule and refs calls based on judgement of how hard the hit to the head was but we no longer have people who can make these calls.
It’s like our school leaders and zero tolerance. No common sense makes it easier for them. If a 17 year old comes to school with an automatic weapon, that person is suspended. If a 6 year old kid comes to school with a 2″ rubber army man toy that has a rubber gun, that kid is suspended. We no longer have good leadership.
I hope this won’t be the case with Goodell. I hope he doesn’t let the sympathy of a Katrina victim cesspool city make the penality any less. Yes cesspool due to the citizens raping and robbing and I believe killing each other while being housed in the very stadium the Aints play. Only animals act this way.
abby normal
March 5th, 2012
10:18 am
There is no place in football (or any sport) for a coach like Gregg Williams. How much would he have paid for a “death-shot” on another player?
Najeh Davenpoop
March 5th, 2012
10:18 am
“Williams should be disbard from the NFL for life”
He’s a lawyer?
Big Crimson 75
March 5th, 2012
10:23 am
It’s time to see what Roger Goodell is really all about. He has pushed 2 agenda’s publicly since becoming Commish.
1. His Player Conduct Code
2. Player Safety — particularly concussion related injuries.
Their can be no waffling here. If the Saints are indeed guilty of this Bounty business — then Sean Payton MUST pay the consequences. Payton should receive a MINIMUM 4 game suspension.
The perfect scenario for the Saints is Williams, no longer with the Team, turns out to be the fall guy. If their was indeed a Bounty system going on — Payton knew about it. If he didn’t know about it — then he should be Fired.
Time to step up Mr. Goodell. You can’t play both sides of the fence. Payton, more than any other person involved, should pay the most! He’s the Coach — it’s his Team. His team is accused of intentionally trying to hurt opposing players — the burden of responsibility is on Payton!!
Roll Tide & take the Falcons with you!!
ls1z28chris
March 5th, 2012
11:11 am
Big Crimson 75
Williams the fall guy? This was all him. He’s brought it with him everyone he has gone.
I understand your tired team is sick of losing to the Saints, but don’t get irrational here. Put quality on the field. Stop paying Sevendust and Samuel L Jackson to make lame hype videos. Maybe one day you could have a hope and prayer of being half as good as the Saints. Then you won’t have to hope the NFL commissioner will take care of your competition.
Failcants last in NFC South again this year. Mark my words.
The Man
March 5th, 2012
11:26 am
the players that say it’s happening everywhere are much like the people who said steroids were everywhere in baseball… THE CROOKS. I’m sure that there may be other teams with similar systems (much like there were additional steroid users) but to say every team (and player) tries to intentionally injure another player is pure B.S.! I say, the league strips them of their “title”. This was a clear and horrenedous violation of league rules and future teams should be shown a strong example. Can you imagine the attention it would bring if the NFL had to vacate a Super Bowl Champ? Just suggesting… seriously.
ME
March 5th, 2012
11:29 am
glad to hear from an EX-player that ATL didnt run that kind of dirty game…im a defensive loving fan, but the thought of going out there with intent to seriously hurt someone to pad ur own pockets when ur already making millions is disgusting…and i dont care that “its done all over in football”..it doesnt make it right…
ls1z28chris
March 5th, 2012
11:53 am
Hahahahahaha. Atlanta can’t win its own Super Bowl, so now they want the NFL to vacate the one won by New Orleans.
You people are pathetic.
Look out for that tornado.
Pandora
March 5th, 2012
11:55 am
EVERY team has a bounty system. Did you REALLY EXPECT the Falcons to ADMIT to it? Give me a break. I have watched their players purposely try to hurt their oppents main players in every game. So I don’t belive this crap!
Samantha
March 5th, 2012
11:56 am
Please Atlanta can’t even win 1 game in the playoffs. They are just sorry and pitiful. This is a very sorry article. It also shows you how the Failcants’ are subservient to the New Orleans Saints! They are such haters…hahahahahahahaha!
Samantha
March 5th, 2012
12:04 pm
First of all the Saints will NOT lose their Superbowl Championship behind this allegation. Secondly, if they call themselves stripping the Saints (Which will NOT happen EVER) then they may as well strip the other Super Bowl Champions for the same reason…even if that were the case..the Failcants will still be a very sorry team and just embarrassing for the City of Atlanta…they will still and are still the very last team in the NFC South division. They are just pitiful and sad. And to all of you people who are saying that most players don’t do that…please…just get your head out of the sand and look around you. It’s a part of football. It’s a part of the game. Why else do you think that Matt (run like a girl….lay down so he won’t be tackled) Ryan do what he does whenever a real player tries to tackle him? Because he knows his team mates try to hurt their opponets on a regular basis. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! GEAUX SAINTS!!!!
Tell it like it is
March 5th, 2012
12:09 pm
you know the Falcons didn’t have a bounty,you can’t pay them enought to hit somebody!
Hudd
March 5th, 2012
12:14 pm
It’s come uppance. I thought you were smart. You always say you are anyway.
G
March 5th, 2012
2:00 pm
Some of you guys look real stupid trying to defend illegal activity. The bounty program existed with the saints (today) and the purpose was bigger than just big hits. The league has a problem with the intent to injure a player to the point of him being removed from the game. So, I guess if someone actually died…….the owner would pitch in the pot too. Who dat…..
DawgNole
March 5th, 2012
2:14 pm
Samantha
March 5th, 2012
11:56 am
Please Atlanta can’t even win 1 game in the playoffs. They are just sorry and pitiful. This is a very sorry article. It also shows you how the Failcants’ are subservient to the New Orleans Saints! They are such haters…hahahahahahahaha!
____________________
A lengthy investigation shows that personnel from your favorite team have cheated and been involved in illegal/criminal activity. And you laugh about it? No wonder Saints fans are considered trash.
G
March 5th, 2012
2:19 pm
Consequences?
1. Gregg Williams will be suspended indefinitely (essentially blackballed)
2. Sean Peyton will be suspended for 8 (reg. season) games and fined $100k.
3. Players involved will be fined and suspended at least 4 (reg. season) games
4. saints will lose draft picks for at least one year
5. Vacate the Lombardi
DawgNole
March 5th, 2012
2:23 pm
ls1z28chris
March 5th, 2012
11:53 am
Hahahahahaha. Atlanta can’t win its own Super Bowl, so now they want the NFL to vacate the one won by New Orleans.
_____________________________
The extent of the well-deserved punishment coming to your team will in no way be linked to what Atlanta wants. And based on the humor you find in the Saints deplorable activities, you and Samantha must be sleeping together.
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Falconidiot
March 5th, 2012
5:39 pm
I guarantee they had a program when Chuck Smith was in there and it’s about time we get another started. Bunch of soft like there head coach players. The NFL is destroying this game. Maybe they can change the field to moon walkers.
4NOLA
March 5th, 2012
5:42 pm
Of course these, NO PLAYOFF WIN LOSERS would have something to say! Its football for heaven sakes,,there’s 32 teams in the NFL, I doubt the Saints are the only team with a bounty!
SeenThisB4
March 5th, 2012
5:47 pm
And the end of this story is “Falclowns: STILL NO PLAYOFF WINS”
Saints R.E.A.M.
March 5th, 2012
5:49 pm
Gregg Williams is on his way to suspension for a full year. St. Louis will be looking for a DC. Mainly because he has done this on several different teams.
Isn’t it funny that the Falcons have no bounty system but easily launched more “cheap shots” on the opposition. Saints were not penalized or fined often for any real vicious hits. How ironic!
4NOLA
March 5th, 2012
5:58 pm
U got a very good point @SaintsR.E.A.M
mrzizzle
March 5th, 2012
6:53 pm
na na na na, na na na na, hey hey hey hey, Sean Payton Bye! Good luck with your new job search in the CFL! Your lack of class has shown through!
Rightrepair1
March 5th, 2012
7:02 pm
Give it a guess here….. Sean Payton will miss 1 game and pay a fine, Greg Williams will miss a minumim of half the year, Big Fine, and probationary staus… the ain`t will be fined, and more importantly, may lose some first and second round picks in consecutive years… Losing picks will make it hard to rebuild over the long haul..
Rollo Lawson
March 5th, 2012
10:16 pm
As much as I hate the Saints, it pains me to see our fans on here gloating. If the Saints are guilty, the whole organization should be punished. As a Falcon fan, however, I’m more concerned with fixing our sorry arse defense, getting Matt Ryan to show some intestinal fortitude, and giving our offensive line a dose of talent and a kick in the pants.
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Ws
March 6th, 2012
6:51 am
The NFL is in this as must as coaches using it. I watched the games, you watch the way ref’s call. You can tell which team NFL wants to win. If I can see on TV, you know these pros can see and knows what has been going on. Over the years I have saw Matt Ryan take some dirty hits, no flag> You let a player even fall close to Bree , Manning and Brady you see flag out. I saw Brady get the ref to throw a flag against falcons a few years back. Falcon never touch Brady. He was knock down close to Brady’s leg.
I saw them get grimes for pushing off and take a int away from falcons, and saw alot of bad calls. Looks like they make up call as they go. Replay, is crooked as well. You watch replays, annoucers will stay play will be reverse, and ref comes out and say not enough evidence. Yet whole tv audience saw it. Ref didn’t. C’mon man. They think we all are dumb. They need to change name too the WNFL.
NFC championship game the year Saints were playing, You could see the Saints hitting Farve after he had threw ball. It went on all game ref didn’t call. Same when Card’s play them. They cheat shot Warner all game.
The first year Smith took falcons to play offs. Falcons had got back in game, NFl didnt want falcons to win. Cards defense line was off sides the whole game, even hit turner when Ryan turn to hand ball off to turner. Caused a fumble the Cards picked up and took to end aone. Cards players said after game Card ’s said they were reading Ryans snap count. They were very good, They were accross line before the o-line. That is very quick.
Who does Goddell think he and his boys are fooling. williams and a few will take fall. But the ones responsiable will still be calling shots.
Saints R.E.A.M.
March 6th, 2012
7:59 am
@ Ws….dude someone’s in your head. How can you enjoy watching NFL football??? You’ve got more conspiracies swirling around in that noggin of yours …..seek help.
Falcon13
March 6th, 2012
11:15 am
Im more concerned about our team and how we can fix our sorry @$$ defense,,$h** we shoulda had a bounty too, if it meant a superbowl title…
It looks as if having the Saints punished, will give us the only opportunity to move pass them,,pretty sad if you ask me,,This shouldnt be the highlight of our upcoming year..Wishing punishment for the competition just so we can get ahead,,WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO WIN IT ALL ANYWAY! So what is this saying about Falcon football???
10 of 12
March 6th, 2012
9:04 pm
And after this year it will be 12 of 14… still sux to be a failclown fan!
dcb
March 7th, 2012
8:47 am
I may not like the concept of a reward or bounty being offered for a hard hit. But, the issue of rewards or bounties needs to differentiate between legal hits and late hits. No punishment of any kind should be assessed on a legal hit – whether or not a reward or bounty was involved. And no punishment of any kinds should be assessed on any hit that wasn’t flagged by on on-field official at the time.
Paul (You doesn't have to call me Johnson).
March 7th, 2012
9:11 am
Sean Peyton should be required to wear an A’ints brown bag over his head at all games in 2012.
10 of 12
March 7th, 2012
4:15 pm
Mike Smith should also- that peroxide look is so 80’s