And where in the report did the term "cart-off hits" come from? Purely the NFL's words. Not from any alleged "note", slide, or recorded "admission".
Exhibits 1-5. Skim through them. If you don't see the phrase "cart-off" on the notes that the Saints submitted to the NFL, along with monetary figures beside the phrase, then you haven't read the evidence presented.
So that was Sharper, not Harper who made the tackle. It was in the 2nd quarter, not the 3rd. And he returned to the game shortly after and finished the game. There was no play in which he was taken out of the game after a Harper tackle.
Again, how does this disprove the existence of a bounty program? I understand that the NFL may have misquoted certain minute details, but the incorrect identification of a specific player doesn't mean that their whole case is thrown out the window.
So if according to that infallible "evidence", Harper got paid in that game for a "cart-off" on Brandon Jacobs, and yet Harper did not tackle anyone, let alone Jacobs, that removed them from the game. How can that be considered legitimate?
Yet again, you're focusing on the wrong facts. Just because Harper did not get paid does not mean that a bounty system wasn't in place.
I ask yet again: If I offer money to someone to do something, yet they don't do it, does that mean I never made the offer?
The charge is that a bounty system was in place. Just because one particular player didn't get paid in one particular game for one particular hit doesn't mean that the team was not giving them an incentive to do so. Even if you find ten different instances in which the NFL got it wrong regarding who was or was not paid for hitting specific players, there is still solid evidence that cash rewards were being offered for specific events, such as cart-off hits. That is a bounty system.
Keep in mind that prior to the NFL's reports and media firestorm, the term "Bounty" had no connotations with a football pool. Its only meaning was its literal meaning of the reward money on a Wanted poster.
Umm, what?
Clearly you've never heard of the "Bounty Bowl." Look it up. Eagles and Cowboys, 1989. The use of the term "bounty" in reference to offering cash rewards for injuring another player has been present in the NFL long before the current scandal with the Saints. They did not make up this term just to slander your beloved team and fabricate evidence.
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