Do You Believe Jonathan Vilma or the NFL?
Jonathan Vilma met with Roger Goodell Tuesday, after a federal judge had overturned the NFL’s suspension. At the meeting, the league presented Vilma with an affidavit signed by Gregg Williams. That affidavit was signed by Williams on Friday, and details his involvement in a pay for performance, and claims that Vilma offered $10,000 before the NFC Championship Game if Brett Favre was knocked out of the game. The full affidavit can be viewed here.
Vilma, of course, had a response:
It’s a bad look for the NFL that this affidavit was just signed three days ago. The gist of it is similar to what the NFL has claimed Williams said regarding Vilma previously. Roger Goodell’s earlier suspension decision on Gregg Williams, to suspend him indefinitely, with the amount determined by factors (helping the NFL?) is a bad look. Of course, Williams has incentive to say things, deflect blame, and come in and sign whatever affidavit the NFL sets in front of him.
The other revelation out of the Vilma hearings is that former assistant Mike Cerullo is identified as a whistleblower in the Vilma lawsuit, and according to Vilma’s attorney, his affidavit contradicts Gregg Williams on Williams’ role in a Favre bounty.
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September 18th, 2012 at 5:57 PM
They’re both full of shit.
September 18th, 2012 at 6:00 PM
They’re both full of shit.
Did they both just eat at Taco Bell?
September 18th, 2012 at 6:01 PM
Contract the ‘Aints
September 18th, 2012 at 6:02 PM
Everything about this is just ugly. Truth is somewhere in the middle and it will never ever come out the way it all truly went down.
September 18th, 2012 at 6:02 PM
Is Brees still sticking to the “I had no idea this was going on” defense?
September 18th, 2012 at 6:10 PM
Gregg Williams will never coach in the NFL again. His choices were either Goddell’s axe over his head, or he could squeal and never have anyone trust him again.
September 18th, 2012 at 6:15 PM
I’m not buying on Vilma. He has some crazy misunderstanding of what constitutes circumstantial evidence (in his defense). He wouldn’t have been suspended at all if Williams hadn’t said what he did which he later repeated under oath. Wasn’t much need for an affidavit before.
September 18th, 2012 at 6:18 PM
Snitches get stiches.
I believe the answer is D) None of the above.
September 18th, 2012 at 6:19 PM
stitches.
/hangs head in shame
September 18th, 2012 at 6:22 PM
Goodell is just trying to throw the book at Vilma so down the line he can claim he took a hard stance on player safety instead of being negligent when the safety class action lawsuit comes to fruition. For that reason I side with Vilma whom I believe is guilty but shouldn’t have to fall on his sword to meet the political needs of the commissioner.
September 18th, 2012 at 6:23 PM
Snitches get stiches.
oui
September 18th, 2012 at 6:27 PM
Being bullied into signing is one thing. Being bullied into lying is another.
September 18th, 2012 at 6:32 PM
neither
September 18th, 2012 at 6:36 PM
I believe Vilma WAS involved in something.
I also believe that if the Saints had knocked this shit off when the NFL first brought it up to them, we wouldn’t be having these discussions.
But I also believe that Gregg Williams is attempting to CYA and that the NFL (and especially Goodell) are a bunch of unscrupulous fucksticks who are hardly above going overboard on their relentless crusade to “clean up the league/protect the integrity of the shield” all the while being tone deaf to other, more obvious matters.
September 18th, 2012 at 6:49 PM
With few exceptions (and Vilma isn’t one of those exceptions), NFL guys from “The U” have “difficulties” with “ethics” and “character.” But I still think Vilma is more credible than Goodell, although, as noted earlier, the truth likely lies somewhere in the middle.
September 18th, 2012 at 6:55 PM
Vilma is more credible than Goodell and the NFL. NFL commissioner and owners lie all the time so you can’t believe them. Like when they told us the replacement refs were just as good as the real refs. Please. I’m not going to believe anything the NFL says on this matter.
September 18th, 2012 at 6:56 PM
With few exceptions (and Vilma isn’t one of those exceptions), NFL guys from “The U” have “difficulties” with “ethics” and “character.”
Few exceptions? Do you know how many NFL players have come out of Miami in the last 30+ years? Please list all the character problems and compare them to the full list of Miami players. I’ll wait.
September 18th, 2012 at 7:00 PM
This was weak.
I believe Goodell is overselling whatever he found and is now trying to CYA in a publicity battle he is losing.
September 18th, 2012 at 7:15 PM
You do realize that Mike Cerullo’s original statement is also available now, and that it DIRECTLY CONTRADICTS what Williams said, right.
This is the same league that leaked that Cerullo provided a “ledger” from the Giants game.
Then they said it was from the Bills game.
Then they said it was from the Panthers game.
Then they didn’t even provide it as evidence AT ALL because they fucked up so bad.
This is the people you are supposed to believe.
And just because you think Vilma is a classless Miami thug, that doesn’t automatically mean he’s guilty of this. Remember what people assumed when Sean Taylor was “obviously” murdered by people he associated with because he was a thug from The U?
The NFL is obviously embarrassing themselves now by refusing to back down
/and you all mocked me when I said this was a personal vendetta between Goodell and the Saints in general and Sean Payton in particular
September 18th, 2012 at 7:28 PM
Screw goodell and the saints.
September 18th, 2012 at 7:31 PM
and you all mocked me when I said this was a personal vendetta between Goodell and the Saints in general and Sean Payton in particular
that’s not why we mocked you
September 18th, 2012 at 10:05 PM
unscrupulous fucksticks
i love the way this tumbles off the tongue. really
September 18th, 2012 at 10:15 PM
You talkin’ about my fuckstick?
/ Billy Bob’d
September 18th, 2012 at 11:12 PM
Either Dear Leader Goodell pulled this affidavit out of his ass, or he had it in pocket the whole time, but didn’t use it because he arrogantly assumed his word was inviolate.
Neither option makes the league look very good.
September 18th, 2012 at 11:28 PM
nothing short of some silly made-up idea can bring the league down. how many things can you say that about?
what could happen that would make fans stay away/not watch?
rules changes to make it less violent? maybe, and that’s all I can imagine
some sort of scandal? like what…point fixing, goodell cross-dressing pics, players flipping off fans instead of waving at each other in a sign of union solidarity?
none of it. damn near bulletproof