Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Bounty Hunters! (Casey)


So Last week the story broke that the New Orleans Saints defensive Coordinator was paying his players a bounty to knock out or possible injure key players on the opposing team. The amount of money ranged dependent on the severity of the hit or whether or not the person being hit was taken out of the game. Now at first I had no problem with it, I mean football is a violent sport and in my mind a defenses job is to keep the opositions star player from making plays any way possible and if you happened to injure someone in the proccess to get them out of the game it was all part of playing. But then I started thinking about it a little more and it made sense to enforce this NO BOUNTIES RULE and here is why. This Bounty thing is not only something offensive players have to worry about, defensive players are in the same boat. Take for example Eric Berry of the Kansas City Chiefs, in one of the first games of the year he was hit low by Steve Johnson and missed the entire season which in turn affected the Chiefs, at the time Eric Berry thought it was a clean block and thought nothing more of it until now. In a recent tweet Berry is begining to wonder if there was a bounty out on him? Its an interesting thought, you look at the NFL and look at the guys who are injured and it makes you wonder, was Peyton Mannings neck injury a result of players hitting him high, giving his neck an extra tug, trying to knock him out of the game to collect on some money? Was Steve Johnson trying to get an extra pay day by taking out Berry, And to that point what is to stop someone on all our favorite teams from getting taken out by a player trying to earn himself an extra couple thousand dollars? This is not just a Saints issue i can almost guarantee that more teams are doing this than we all think. So in a league that has been so concerned with saftey lately there better be some swift action to stop this before it gets worse! STEP UP ROGER! 

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  1. As soon as i heard about this i have been ticked! Especially since retired players have been complaining about not getting compensated after retirement and current players complaining about safety! What a bunch of B.S.! You want higher safety in the league but you put a bounty on players if you can injure them! This better get resolved soon... take it to all those involved anywhere in the league

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