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NFL comes down hard on Saints, Gregg Williams

Eric Williams - Staff writer

March 21, 2012 2:26 AM

Once again, NFL Roger Goodell shows he's the boss in today's decision on discipline for the people involved in the New Orleans Saints bounty scandal.

According to NFL.com, New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Peyton has been suspended a year without pay. New Orleans general manager Mickey Loomis has been suspended eight games, and defensive coordinator Gregg Williams has been suspended indefinitely, with his suspension up for review at the end of the year.

Also, the Saints have been fined $500,000 and will have to give up the team's second-round picks in the 2012 and 2013 NFL Drafts.

New Orleans Saints defensive assistant head coach Joe Vitt has been suspended six games without pay.

Heavy-handed? I would say it's a bit on the strong side, but once again Goodell has got the league's attention that he will not put up with this type of behavior.

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Gregg Bell joined The News Tribune in July 2014. Bell had been the director of writing for the University of Washington's athletic department for four years. He was the senior national sports writer in Seattle for The Associated Press from 2005-10, covering the Seahawks in their first Super Bowl season and beyond. He's also been The Sacramento Bee's beat writer on the Oakland Athletics and Raiders. The native of Steubenville, Ohio, is a 1993 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., and a 2000 graduate of the University of California, Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.