Saints in trouble yet again

[Captain Morgan]

The Saints are facing discipline from the league office for violating COVID-19 safety policies, according to NFL.com’s Tom Pelissero and Ian Rapoport. This marks the third such violation for Sean Payton & Co., so the punishment is likely to be even larger. 

Between the two previous penalties, the Saints have already been docked $750K plus the forfeiture of a seventh-round pick. 

The latest flag stems from a late-season incident in which running back Alvin Kamara came in contact with a COVID-19 positive person at the team facility. That person was not employed by the Saints, even though non-team personnel have been barred from entering this season.

When Kamara contracted the coronavirus, the timing couldn’t have been worse. Forced out of the season finale, Kamara still finished the year with an NFL-high 21 TDs. Meanwhile, several other Saints RBs were forced out of Week 17, putting increased attention on the Saints and their protocols.

Interestingly, Kamara himself was not an innocent party in this. According to Jeff Duncan of The Athletic, Kamara’s refusal to wear a contract-tracing device was a problem all season, so the club had no way to trace his close contacts after he tested positive (Twitter link). The league’s investigation into the latest alleged violation could presumably lead to discipline for Kamara as well as the Saints.

The Saints project to have four, or possibly five, selections in the 2021 draft. Currently, they have only their first-, second-, and fourth-round picks. However, they are slated receive a pair of third-round compensatory picks for hiring Terry Fontenot and losing Teddy Bridgewater. In the coming days, the Saints could wind up losing more from their stockpile.

 

some more stuff in the link.    https://www.profootballrumors.com/2021/02/saints-facing-covid-19-discipline   

It's amazing how that organization can't follow the rules.  Anybody could mess up once with all the new rules regarding the virus, but after being fined and losing a draft pick, they couldn't get Kamara to follow the rules, so they did nothing and sure enough, he and other rbs had to miss a game.  Amazing.

[Move the Panthers to Raleigh]

Kamara probably has some sketchy connections. He might implicate himself by wearing a tracing device.

[KillerKat]

Take their fist!

[PandaMan]

That team is just a cesspool.  Easily my least favorite in the NFL

[joemac]

38 minutes ago, Move the Panthers to Raleigh said:

Kamara probably has some sketchy connections. He might implicate himself by wearing a tracing device.

Your cell phone provides all that and more if they really are worried about who he’s hanging around.

[Pimpdaddy]

They are in deep cap space hell too...fk them

 

[Scott12345]

Guess they didn’t miss him in the season finale