There are still so many things you refuse to address or even acknowledge.
You post an article that grades the evidence presented. You highlight every F or incomplete, yet ignore the other pieces of evidence which received higher grades.
A player can audibly be heard to yell "Give me my money" when Vitt informs the players that Favre was hurt in the most recent play. Hargrove's verbal denial that he said that is blindly accepted. Furthermore, you ignore the fact that someone on the Saints said it, even if it wasn't Hargrove.
You ignore that Hargrove admitted to being told to "play dumb" when investigators came to ask about a bounty system, and don't want to address what exactly he was being told to play dumb about.
You don't want to acknowledge Williams' apology, and his express statement that he was putting players' safety in danger with his system. You also ignore Williams' admission that Vitt told Hargrove to lie about a bounty system, and instead choose to believe Vitt's denial.
There are express references in the documents to monetary pay outs, cart-off hits, and bounties, yet you blindly accept an after-the-fact explanation by Williams that these terms don't mean what we think. This same explanation comes from the guy who stated that Vitt told a player to lie about the existence of a bounty system. Oh...I'm sorry...not "lie" about a bounty system, but "play dumb," "stick to the story," and "stay on the same page" about something. I'm sure Williams has an explanation for those terms as well.
Vilma, Smith, Fujita, and Hargrove show up to their appeal hearing, cry about not having exactly 72 hours to review the evidence, and are given until the afternoon (the end of the 72 hour period they are guaranteed) to review the evidence and make their appeal. Vilma didn't show up to make an appeal that afternoon, and although the other three showed up, they had no response to give to the evidence even after protesting not having enough time (and receiving additional time) to review the evidence. And Goodell kept the case open for the remainder of last week to allow the players to come back and put up a defense if they feel they have a legitimate case that needs to be considered...yet they didn't, as far as I've heard.
And what has yet to be mentioned is that the Saints have failed to offer anything to refute what the NFL has presented, other than verbal denials regarding the authenticity of documentation and the meaning of words. Do you think that Goodell rappelled into the Saints' headquarters and stole documentation like a ninja? Why didn't the coaches, players, and/or their attorneys make copies of documents before handing them over? Why not submit those copies during the appeal instead of walking away from the hearing and not coming back with any response whatsoever?
For a team which vehemently believes that every accusation is false and that there is no evidence, they sure are failing to present any evidence or provide any verifiable defenses, other than broad verbal denials by those accused.
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