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The hit that could end Stewarts career... you make the call...

Zod

By Zod,
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...Williams admitted it. Argue otherwise all you wish, the Saints organization is dirty.

 

Williams was given a choice..."admit" that his only-slightly-more-over-the-top-than-almost-any-other-coach-at-almost-any-level pre-game comments about how hard to hit the opponents and "killing the head so the body dies" were evidence that his team was paying it's players to hurt other players rather than for plays that are considered solid legal defensive plays (despite lack of actual physical evidence of anything like, you know...injuries) and get re-instated back into the league, or stick with his original statement to the league that the pool paid for big defensive plays such as interceptions, sacks, and yes, players leaving the game after big-but-legal hits and remain banned for life. 

 

The league was on the verge of having multiple lawsuits filed against it by it's former employees, the former players, for having done nothing at all to ameliorate situations that it knew were causing injury as a matter of course to them over the course of it's existence.  The Saints' player pool gave the league the opportunity to "prove" that they really cared about player injuries...on the eve of getting blasted in the court of public opinion if not also in the actual courts.  Or did you all think it was a coincidence that all of the rules changes (protecting the QB, defenseless receivers, etc.) that most of you bemoan as destroying real football began to really be ramped up at the same time?  The Saints' penalties and the aforementioned rules changes were all part of the same PR blitz aimed at "protecting the shield".

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Williams was given a choice..."admit" that his only-slightly-more-over-the-top-than-almost-any-other-coach-at-almost-any-level pre-game comments about how hard to hit the opponents and "killing the head so the body dies" were evidence that his team was paying it's players to hurt other players rather than for plays that are considered solid legal defensive plays (despite lack of actual physical evidence of anything like, you know...injuries) and get re-instated back into the league, or stick with his original statement to the league that the pool paid for big defensive plays such as interceptions, sacks, and yes, players leaving the game after big-but-legal hits and remain banned for life. 

 

The league was on the verge of having multiple lawsuits filed against it by it's former employees, the former players, for having done nothing at all to ameliorate situations that it knew were causing injury as a matter of course to them over the course of it's existence.  The Saints' player pool gave the league the opportunity to "prove" that they really cared about player injuries...on the eve of getting blasted in the court of public opinion if not also in the actual courts.  Or did you all think it was a coincidence that all of the rules changes (protecting the QB, defenseless receivers, etc.) that most of you bemoan as destroying real football began to really be ramped up at the same time?  The Saints' penalties and the aforementioned rules changes were all part of the same PR blitz aimed at "protecting the shield".

 

I hope you don't honestly believe that...

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