Regardless, it was flat out wrong for him to use the bounty scandal as a platform to then trash the city of New Orleans.
And all throughout the Bounty process he talked as if everything was fact, and now that it's been PROVEN that it wasn't fact, he still trashes the Saints. Even Stephan A. Smith took back everything, as did most after Tagliabue ruled in favor of the players.
He might have been complimentary towards Payton before, but Cowherd bashed the shit out of Brees earlier this year, claiming he wasn't even the best player on the Saints, so...yeah...
The NFL wrote that letter, not Gregg Williams. The NFL didn't like the "apology" Williams wrote so they wrote one for him and told him to sign it.
http://danpatrick.directv.com.edgesuite.net/Podcast/DP-Hr2_04-06-2012_stream.mp3
And even if you don't think that's true, how about the fact that Gregg Williams recanted that statement not long after it was released?
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...n-of-evidence-demands-reversal-of-suspension/
But of course... when it came to his reinstatement, Williams went back to saying there were bounties.
In a court of law if you're constantly changing your story, your testimony gets thrown out the window. That's how people should look at Williams actions throughout the bounty scandal. Changed stories, and a man with an agenda to get back into the league.
All he did was tell his players to keep their mouth shut until they knew what was going on. That deserves a year long punishment, really? No one thinks that was fair, except a limited few like Cowherd.
You're right... at first, when I believed the Saints did have a bounty system, I said that they deserved to be punished, but to not to that extent since yes, it's been done for years. Going back to that for a second, I love how Roger Goodell has had such high praise for Ray Lewis all week, while ignoring the fact that Ray Ray ended Rashard Mendenhall's season in a game where Terrell Suggs admitted there was a bounty on him.
Anyway, I've followed this case tooth and nail and I've come to the conclusion that there wasn't a bounty. Vilma and Vitt offered to take lie detractor tests... Williams and Cerrulo did not. Over a dozen guys testified, in a real court of law under oath where perjury is a felony offense, that the accusations against Vilma wasn't true. So if Vilma, who was the supposed ring leader of this supposed bounty progam, is innocent enough to the point where it literally cannot be proven that he was and his suspension lifted, then that tells me that a bounty program didn't exist in the first place. A pay for performance program did obviously, but that's way different than a bounty program.
I understand why you feel that way, but trust me... as I'm the biggest fan of the Saints on the board, I'm also their biggest critic. I've trashed them left and right after piss poor performances on this very board, even Drew Brees who I fucking adore with all my heart. If they were in the wrong on something, I'd have zero problem admitting it.
All along my biggest gripe has been that Sean Payton's suspension was never justified, and I've yet to hear one reasonable argument why it was. And this goes back to Colin Cowherd being one of the very few not to change his stance and actually say Payton's suspension was fair.
