Posted on 10 April 2012. Tags: Before, Bowl, can't, coach, Communication, consult, Joe Vitt, Loomis, matter, Mickey Loomis, New Orleans Saints, Nfl, Nfl Commissioner Roger Goodell, Payton, Saints, Super, Super Bowl, Vitt
In his judgment upholding suspensions for New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton, general manager Mickey Loomis and assistant head coach Joe Vitt, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell stated the parties had to meet specific needs for their possible reinstatements.
One particular of the expectations is that they avoid all football and operational communication, according to a source with knowledge of the situation, citing NFL rules. Once Payton’s suspension kicks in April 16, he can’t speak to Loomis or Vitt — or have any communication with the team — concerning football or operational matters till following the Super Bowl. There is latitude for dialogue, for example, ought to a private matter arise and counsel is warranted.
Although Payton’s suspension technically ends following the Super Bowl, he has to re-apply for reinstatement and have Goodell review his status to determine whether to allow him back to coach in the NFL.
Loomis and Vitt can operate as typical until the commence of the standard season but once their suspensions begin, Vitt can’t speak with anyone on the team regarding football matters for six games, Loomis for eight.
What could be an intriguing wrinkle is how the schedule lays out for the Saints. If the NFL schedules a bye week in the very first six games, Vitt’s and Loomis’s suspensions could be prolonged for a week. The same applies to Loomis if a bye is scheduled in the first eight games.
Last season the Saints’ bye did not come until Week 11.
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Posted on 05 April 2012. Tags: 49ers, Before, Game, Gregg Williams, Injure, New Orleans Saints, Nfl, playoff, Report, Saints, suspension, Urged, Williams
A speech recorded by a documentary filmmaker allegedly captures former New Orleans Saints defensive coordinator Gregg Williams imploring his players to injure specific San Francisco 49ers the night just before January’s NFC Wild Card Game.
In the speech, a portion of which was captured by filmmaker Sean Pamphilon, Williams delivers a fiery, profanity-laced speech urging Saints players to inflict harm on many 49ers, such as quarterback Alex Smith, operating back Frank Gore, and receivers Michael Crabtree and Kyle Williams.
“At one particular point Williams says, ‘We hit (expletive) Smith right there’ — then he points under his chin (and continues) — ‘remember me,’ ” Pamphilon told Michael Silver of Yahoo! Sports. “Then he rubs his thumb against his index and middle fingers — the cash sign — and says, ‘I got the initial 1. I got the first 1. Go get it. Go lay that (expletive) out.’ “
It’s unknown if the NFL got a hold of this audio in the course of its investigation of the Saints’ “bounty” system. The NFL declined comment to NFL.com’s Steve Wyche on whether or not the audio recording in the Yahoo! story or any other data in the post was evidence it previously had or if it was new.
Pamphilon captured the footage whilst working on a film about former Saints special teams player Steve Gleason, who suffers from Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Pamphilon said he believes “there’s no doubt at all” that Williams placed a bounty on Smith. Pamphilon emphasized to Yahoo! Sports that Saints coach Sean Payton and general manager Mickey Loomis had been not in the space in the course of Williams’ speech.
Williams was suspended indefinitely by Commissioner Roger Goodell for his function in the “bounty” program.
Goodell will listen Thursday to appeals from the Saints ($ 500,000 fine, two lost draft picks), Payton (suspension for the 2012 season), Loomis (eight-game suspension), and assistant coach Joe Vitt (six-game suspension).
Loomis and Vitt arrived at NFL headquarters on Thursday. Payton is scheduled to arrive later in the day for his appeal.
Williams, who was hired by the St. Louis Rams this offseason, did not appeal his indefinite suspension.
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Posted on 05 April 2012. Tags: 49ers, Before, body, defense, final, Game, Gregg, Gregg Williams, Injure, kyle williams, New Orleans Saints, player', receiver, Saints, Urged, Williams
Before final game, Gregg Williams urged Saints to injure 49ers
Posted by Michael David Smith on April five, 2012, 7:30 AM EDT
Ahead of his final game as defensive coordinator of the New Orleans Saints, Gregg Williams stepped just before his players and urged them to physically hurt players on the 49ers.
Audio of Williams’ speech to the Saints’ defense was captured by filmmaker Sean Pamphilon, who is operating on a documentary about former Saints player Steve Gleason, who is suffering from ALS. Pamphilon has place part of the audio of the profanity-filled speech on YouTube.
Pamphilon also passed on the audio to Michael Silver of Yahoo Sports because, he said, he was very uncomfortable with what Williams stated about trying to hurt 49ers quarterback Alex Smith and other players. Williams, who masterminded the Saints’ bounty program, hinted that he would financially reward a Saints player who hurts a 49ers player.
“At a single point Williams says, ‘We hit [expletive] Smith correct there’ – then he points under his chin [and continues] – ‘remember me.’ Then he rubs his thumb against his index and middle fingers – the money sign – and says, ‘I got the 1st 1. I got the first one. Go get it. Go lay that [expletive] out,’” Pamphilon told Silver.
Williams has long loved the phrase, “Kill the head and the body will die,” and he employed that phrase in talking to his players. He also specifically told them to go for the head of 49ers operating back Frank Gore.
“We’ve got to do almost everything in the world to make certain we kill Frank Gore’s head,” Williams told his players. “We want him running sideways. We want his head sideways.”
Williams also talked about trying to inflict a knee injury on 49ers receiver Michael Crabtree and referenced 49ers receiver Kyle Williams, who has had many concussions.
“We need to find out in the first two series of the game, the little wide receiver, No. ten, about his concussion,” Gregg Williams told his players about Kyle Williams. “We want to [expletive] put a lick on him, move him to determine. He demands to determine.”
Gregg Williams has currently been indefinitely suspended by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. This audio might make it difficult for Williams ever to get reinstated. This is the smoking gun that tends to make crystal clear that Williams wanted his players not just to play hard, physical defense, but to injure their opponents.
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Posted on 01 November 2011. Tags: Afc West, Arrowhead Stadium, Before, Chargers', Fireworks, Fumbled, hear, Kansas City Chiefs, news, overtime loss, Philip Rivers, play, quarterback, Rivers, Snap
Right just before San Diego quarterback Philip Rivers took the now infamous snap that spoiled a prospective game-winning field objective and sent the Chargers stumbling into a 23-20 overtime loss to the Kansas City Chiefs, a flurry of fireworks could be heard going off outside of Arrowhead Stadium.
The fireworks had been loud adequate to get picked up on ESPN’s Monday night broadcast, and many wondered after the game if they played a role in River’s fumble. While the fireworks would have made for a fantastic story — a Halloween trick helping the Chiefs force a three-way tie atop the AFC West — Rivers said right after the game the noise did not impact him on the play.
“No, I wish I could say I did,” Rivers said, by way of ESPN.com, when asked if he could hear the fireworks.
The fumble was Rivers’ third turnover of the game as the Chargers’ signal-caller continues to struggle this season. Rivers is on pace to shatter his career high of 15 interceptions in a season, already tossing 11 picks by means of seven games. His 14 turnovers lead the NFL, and he recently dismissed reports that his play is suffering because of an unannounced injury.
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Posted on 22 July 2011. Tags: Before, call, Conference, didn’t, finger, finger pointing, George Wilson, information, Labor Dispute, Nfl Network, NFLPA, owners, Proposal, vote
We’re nearing the end of a long, insane day at PFT.
The finger pointing has began. We’re seeing a lot of powerful opinions out there regardless of a deficit of key details in this labor dispute. For example, NFLPA* rep George Wilson mentioned player reps didn’t even see the owners’ proposed deal before their conference call tonight.
“We’re not going to allow this to be force fed to us in such a short period of time,” Wilson told NFL Network. ”We hadn’t even seen the deal the owners voted on these days.”
We’re a little confused here. The NFLPA* sent emails to reps with strong language questioning the legality of the owner’s proposal just before the conference call, but they didn’t consist of the details of the deal itself? What? We are genuinely just confused there.
Kirk Morrison of the Jaguars confidently mentioned that a deal will be created throughout an appearance on ESPN, while ESPN’s Chris Mortensen said a vote will come Friday. Mort’s information reportedly came from the NFLPA* executive committee and DeMaurice Smith.
Wilson stated info was totally untrue.
“There is no timetable for a vote to be held,” Wilson mentioned.
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Posted on 05 June 2011. Tags: after, Before, Circuit, deal, Eighth, eighth circuit rules, Judge Nelson, legal proceedings, Mike Freeman, Nfl, NFLPA, rules, ruling, strike, time, Today, winner
We’ve seen somewhere nowadays a suggestion that the renewed talks between the NFL and the NFLPA* will continue until the Eighth Circuit problems a ruling on the appeal of Judge Nelson’s order lifting the lockout, and that right after the ruling the shift in the leverage will aid nail down a final deal.
That’s precisely what shouldn’t take place.
On multiple occasions, the NFL has said that it wants the next labor deal to be fair to both sides, so that neither the owners nor the players will feel compelled in two or three years to pull the plug and take a stand. The best way to craft a win-win agreement comes not following 1 side “wins” this crucial phase of the legal proceedings, but before.
If they wait until there’s a clear winner and a clear loser on the question of regardless of whether the lockout will be lifted (and, in spite of Judge Kermit Bye’s admonition that neither side will like the ruling, there likely will be a clear winner and a clear loser), a win-win outcome will occur only if the clear winner decides to be uncharacteristically magnanimous. So the time to do a lasting deal is now, before the Eighth Circuit rules.
Mike Freeman of CBSSports.com mentioned on Twitter earlier today that “multiple sources” tell him a deal “could” be reached before the Eighth Circuit rules. Without question, it need to be.
And to the extent that anybody fears the two sides are playing beat the clock, with a game-changing ruling from the Eighth Circuit springing up just as the parties close in on an accord, it is secure to assume that the folks in St. Louis will be keeping tabs on the mediation process that has been coordinated by Judge Nelson. The court program always prefers the parties finding their own justice to imposing justice upon them, specially in high-profile cases like this one.
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Posted on 22 May 2011. Tags: Before, Bills, BUF, Chan Gailey, chucknorris, close, defense, games, justin rogers, look, Lost, mt jasper, Rush Defense, Sep, start, they, week
In 2010, the Bills ended the season at a miserable 4-12. Of those 12 losses, five of those were eight points or less. Let’s take a quick look at those games:
Week 1: Sep 12, MIA 15 @ BUF 10
Week 3: Sep 26, BUF 30 @ NE 38
Week 7: Oct 24, BUF 34 @ BAL 37
Week 9: Nov 07, CHI 22 @ BUF 19
Week 12: Nov 28, PIT 19 @ BUF 16
Last season, the Bills defense ranked 24th with 361.6 yards per game (YPG), rush defense ranked 32nd with 169.6 YPG, which was 15 yards more a game than the 31st ranked rush defense (Denver) at 154.6 and 24.4 YPG more than the 30th ranked rush defense (Arizona). The Bills rush D gave up on average 4.8 yards per attempt (YPA), which means after two runs, the opposing offense gained 9.6 yards and only need less than a half yard for a 1st down on 3rd down. Buffalo’s pass defense ranked 3rd at 192.0 YPG, but had the 2nd fewest pass attempts against them at 473 (Oakland had 470). Because of how bad the Bills were on defense, Buddy Nix and Chan Gailey’s focus this offseason was to fix the defense as best as they could through the draft by selecting seven of nine players for the defense: DE/DT Marcell Dareus, CB Aaron Williams, ILB Kelvin Sheppard, SS Da’ChuckNorris Searcy, ILB Chris White, CB Justin Rogers, DT Michael Mt. Jasper. Nix stated his focus was to stop the run first, then worry about rushing the passer. Dareus and Sheppard were drafted to help Buffalo’s rush defense woes, to go along with Kyle Williams and last year’s picks of Troup and Carrington. With the combination of the draft picks from 2010 & 2011, plus Kyle Williams, the Bills are hoping their run D woes will finally be coming to an end. With the possibility of the run D improved, will the defense be able to get off the field quicker and give the offense more time to produce? It’s very possible, but only time will tell. Should fans feel confident that Buddy Nix can build a good, respectable defense for the Bills, let’s take a look at his time with the Bills from 93-00 when he was a regional scout for John Butler and the Chargers where Nix was Director of Pro Player Personnel (00-01), then Assistant General Manager. In 1993, during the Bills superbowl run, the Bills D ranked at 27th (out of 28 teams) at 347.1. The Bills improved every year until finally becoming the #1 defense in 1999 at 252.8 YPG. In San Diego in 2002, the Chargers D ranked 30th giving up 377.1 YPG. In 2006, the Chargers D improved to 10th at 301.6 YPG. While all the credit for the Bills D of the 90′s & the Chargers D of the 00′s can’t all go to Nix, fans should feel confident in Nix’s ability to know what
kind of defense works and in Nix’s ability to get the right players.
Let’s take a look at the offense. In 2009, the Bills offense, under Jauron/Fewell ranked at 30th with 273.9 YPG, rush: 16th at 116.7 YPG and pass: 30th at 157.2 YPG. In 2010, the Bills offense under Gailey ranked 25th at 304.9 YPG (a 31 YPG improvement), rush: 18th at 107.5 YPG and pass: 24th at 197.4 YPG (a 40.2 YPG improvement). In 2010, Gailey had a three way open competition for the starting QB position. Edwards, Fitzpatrick and Brohm all had to share reps with the starting unit during training camp. Capt Checkdown got the starting nod for the first two games before getting the boot by Gailey. In those two games, the Bills offense looked offensive, averaging 176 YPG, 87 rushing YPG, 89 passing YPG and 8.5 points per game. In weeks 3-16 with Fitz as the starter, the offense averaged 335 YPG, 116 rushing YPG, 219.6 passing YPG and 19.9 points per game. In the three games that Fitz did not play in last season, the offense averaged 171 YPG, 70 rushing YPG, 101 passing YPG and 8 points per game. Also, Fitz had two games in which he passed for over 300 yards (382 & 308), something that wasn’t done in a Bills uniform in years. Working in the Bills favor this year is Fitz is the entrenched starter for 2011 and will get all the reps (if there is a training camp, etc…); Wood and Bell are another year removed from their injuries; Wood most likely will be the teams permanent Center; a better option at RT to start the year than Cornell Green (either Pears or Hairston); Steve Johnson, David Nelson, Donald Jones and CJ Spiller will all have a year of experience under their belts; the offense as a whole will have another year under their belts under Gailey’s system.
Between a beefed up defense, the addition of a proven defensive coach in Dave Wannstedt and the offense having another year in the same system, there’s reason to think that the Bills will finally be able to win close games in which they lost in the past and start to actually compete against the best in the league. But, as a sad reminder, this is all dependent on the current labor situation.
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Posted on 07 April 2011. Tags: Ashley, Bachelor, Before, Ben Roethlisberger, camp, fiancee, Harlan, July, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Roethlisberger, Steelers Quarterback, wedding, week
Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger’s days as a bachelor officially will end July 23, when he and fiancee Ashley Harlan marry, he confirmed to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Wednesday.
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A speech not in contrast to the a single each defensive coordinator in the history of football has created ahead of a large game.
Maintain in mind the 49ers are known to have called this a “body bag game.” The players know the score, even if the commissioner and a bunch of the fans want to hide their collective heads in the sand.
Wow man what a d*ck.. Dude is just evil.
Instead it was Pierre Thomas who was taken out by a helmet-to-helmet hit.
Oh yeah, nothing wrong with that. Nothing at all. Just a small incentive. All the teams do it. Proper. Positive they do.
OK Saints fans … let’s see you justify this 1.
he is a pig. the who dat crowd ought to be ashamed for trying to assistance this punk.
I realize that football is going to test a player’s recovery for injuries as players go all-out to win, but to go out and order such certain hits, to attempt to end careers, it’s just sickening.
Sick, just flat out incorrect. Williams should by no means set foot in a football locker room for the remainder of his life.
You’re damn appropriate I called the code red!!!
Goodell should send a copy to the Louisiana Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs…
What a total douche. And the Saints’ fans will continue to say they had been as well harshly punished? Give me a break.
There’s a massive distinction in between being aggressive and being malicious. There’s no area in the game for a guy like this. Just make it official and slap a lifetime ban on him.
Wow. Just listened. What a D-Bag. There is your proof kool-aid drinkers.
Who paid Donte Whitner?
I knew it was bad.. but damn
Banned for life.
Genuinely surprised no one particular in the locker room spoke out against this.
This guy is completed
That’s just as well far.
Can’t wait for far more Saints fans to continue to claim that they’re nonetheless the victim regardless of this evidence.
All of you worthless TROLLS ought to have fun beating this dead horse!!!!! DISGUSTING!
Greg Williams, you are the weakest link!
Stuff like that opens pandora’s box for players injured by Saints suing in civil court…
What a mess, Greg Williams is gone for great, rightfully so..
Thank goodness the NFL brand is so strong it will polish away this blemish..
It’s a violent game, and people will be injured. “The QB have to go down difficult ” is component of the game..but NOT with “attempt to injure” head and knee shots!