Saints Bounty Scandal: Ledger Evidence Isn’t Good Enough to Justify Suspensions

June 2, 2012   ·   Nicholas Goss   ·   Jump to comments

To justify their suspensions of four New Orleans Saints players for the 2012 season, the NFL is going to need more evidence than just a vague ledger of bounty information, which was leaked to Jason Cole of Yahoo! Sports this week.
Per Yahoo! Sports:
The NFL has a copy of a "ledger" that was kept detailing weekly earnings for players in the New Orleans Saints bounty system, according to two sources with knowledge of the investigation.
The ledger, which shows both money earned for "cart-offs" and "whacks" and deducted for "mental errors," also points to the fact that players were told on a week-by-week basis of their performance.
Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma was suspended for the entire 2012 season as a result of his alleged role in the team's bounty program, which means there should be some real evidence that Vilma was part of these transactions; otherwise the suspension shouldn't hold up.
If the bounty system did exist, then the NFL is right to punish t...

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