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POSTED 11:55 a.m. EST, November 19, 2007
LEAGUE LOOKING AT WHETHER PACKERS ARE VIOLATING BOUNTY RULES
NFL spokesman Greg Aiello tells us that the league is looking into the question of whether members of the Green Bay Packers have violated the league's rules against bounties.
On Sunday, Bob Holtzmann of ESPN reported during Sunday NFL Countdown that a couple of Packers defensive backs had promised to pay each of the team's defensive linemen $500 if there were able to hold Vikings running back Adrian Peterson under 100 yards rushing in Week Ten.
They succeeded.
For Week Eleven, another $500 per lineman was promised if the Packers held the Panthers to under 60 yards rushing.
They failed.
We asked Aiello whether these extra payments counted against the salary cap, given that they were coming from teammates and not from the team. Aiello said that it's not a cap issue, but he explained that the league is looking at whether such promises are impermissible bounties.
The classic bounty is an offer of money or other benefits in exchange for injuring a player. But to the extent that limiting a player's production can be satisfied in part by, for example, tearing the player's LCL, it's probably not a good idea for incentives of this nature to be dangled in front of NFL players.
Stay tuned.
This is pretty funny!!!
POSTED 11:55 a.m. EST, November 19, 2007
LEAGUE LOOKING AT WHETHER PACKERS ARE VIOLATING BOUNTY RULES
NFL spokesman Greg Aiello tells us that the league is looking into the question of whether members of the Green Bay Packers have violated the league's rules against bounties.
On Sunday, Bob Holtzmann of ESPN reported during Sunday NFL Countdown that a couple of Packers defensive backs had promised to pay each of the team's defensive linemen $500 if there were able to hold Vikings running back Adrian Peterson under 100 yards rushing in Week Ten.
They succeeded.
For Week Eleven, another $500 per lineman was promised if the Packers held the Panthers to under 60 yards rushing.
They failed.
We asked Aiello whether these extra payments counted against the salary cap, given that they were coming from teammates and not from the team. Aiello said that it's not a cap issue, but he explained that the league is looking at whether such promises are impermissible bounties.
The classic bounty is an offer of money or other benefits in exchange for injuring a player. But to the extent that limiting a player's production can be satisfied in part by, for example, tearing the player's LCL, it's probably not a good idea for incentives of this nature to be dangled in front of NFL players.
Stay tuned.
This is pretty funny!!!
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