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Surprise! Surprise! Saints Name Joe Vitt Interim Head Coach

By Travis Pulver | April 12, 2012 @ 11:50 pm
Asst Head Coach Joe Vitt in the tunnel prior to Super Bowl XLIV

While the possibility of having Bill Parcells lead another team to the Super Bowl was nice and distracting for a while, it appears that the Saints are going with the logical choice for Sean Payton’s replacement next season. On Thursday the Saints announced that assistant head coach (and linebackers coach) Joe Vitt would serve as the head coach of the team while Sean Payton is suspended due to the Bountygate scandal.

As the assistant head coach he would (or at least should) be the man who is the most familiar with the team. He’s been with the team in his current capacity since January 2006, and did take over briefly last season when Sean Payton was laid up with a broken leg. His record as a head coach is not stellar (4-7 with the St. Louis Rams in 2005), but in all fairness he really didn't have much to work with there.

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Bill Parcells Not Going to Coach Saints Next Season

By Travis Pulver | April 10, 2012 @ 1:52 pm
Bill Parcells while with the Dallas Cowboys

When the news first broke that Sean Payton was going to be suspended for the 2012-13 NFL season the Saints Faithful felt like they got a punch to the gut. Without their head coach the team’s chances of becoming the first team to play in a Super Bowl it was hosting became awful long odds.

However, when rumors began to circulate that future Hall of Fame coach and a former Super Bowl winner, Bill Parcells, was thinking of taking the job you could hear a collective sigh of relief being let out in bars all over the Big Easy.

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NFL Denies Sean Payton, Year-long Suspension Upheld

By Eric Gray | April 9, 2012 @ 10:48 am
Sean Payton will miss the 2012-13 season after appeal denied

The NFL denied New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton's appeal of his one year suspension after the 'Bountygate' scandal. General manager Mickey Loomis and assistant coach Joe Vitt also had their appeals denied, according to FoxSports.com.

Commissioner Roger Goodell heard the appeals last week, but was also the one who handed down the punishments, so the denials aren't really that big of a surprise.

Goodell suspended the three men after the Saints were found to have been running an illegal bounty program where players were rewarded financially for taking opposing players out of games, under former defensive coordinator Gregg Williams. Williams has been suspended indefinitely and will reportedly not appeal that decision.

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Gregg Williams Told Saints Defense To ‘Kill The F’ing Head’ (AUDIO)

By Eric Gray | April 5, 2012 @ 9:12 am
Former Saints defensive coordinator Gregg Williams
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Warning: The audio is pretty profane. 

Gregg Williams, the former New Orleans Saints defensive coordinator, told his team the night before a playoff game with the San Francisco 49ers to 'kill the f'ing head, and the body will die.'

Williams has been suspended indefinitely by the NFL for running a bounty program that paid cash to players for taking opposing players out of games with vicious hits. Because you know, that never happens unless guys making millions of dollars a year are promised an extra few thousand.

The audio posted here is of Williams hyping up his defense before a playoff game this year. There is plenty of NSFW language in there, so be careful. Read More » »

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BREAKING: NFL Suspends Saints’ Head Coach Sean Payton For Season

By Eric Gray | March 21, 2012 @ 10:36 am
Coach Sean Payton hammered by NFL

The NFL has just laid the hammer down, suspending New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton for the entire next season for the illegal bounty program that the Saints were running.

Gregg Williams, the defensive coordinator who ran the program that rewarded players financially for taking opposing players out of games, has been suspended indefinitely by the league. The Saints also lose a pick in the next two drafts and were fined half a million dollars.

The suspension is without pay, according to Jay Glazer, which means Payton will lose out on about 8 million dollars in salary. Ouch.

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All the Latest and Greatest on the New Orleans Saints Bounty Scandal

By Travis Pulver | March 6, 2012 @ 1:28 am
DC Gregg Williams of the New Orleans Saints talks with Jonathan Vilma #51 (L) and Roman Harper #41

Apparently wherever Greg Williams goes the defensive players do not get paid enough so in order to supplement the million dollar salaries of his players he places bounties on opposing players.

Don’t worry if your first thought to that sentence is something like ‘WTF?’ You’re not alone.

The story has been building up throughout the weekend. Those of you not glued to your cell phones or Sports Center all the time are likely a little bit in the dark on this whole mess. If you are a little confused and a bit intrigued don’t worry. Read on and you’ll be up on the latest with this scandal in no time.

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