NFL-NFLPA Meeting on Saints ‘bounties’ Goes Two-Plus Hours at LinesMaker

NFL-NFLPA Meeting on Saints ‘bounties’ Goes Two-Plus Hours

NEW YORK — NFL and NFL Play­ers Asso­ci­a­tion offi­cials met for just over two hours at league head­quar­ters Mon­day con­cern­ing player pun­ish­ment in the New Orleans Saints “bounty” case, fin­ish­ing up at 6:45 p.m. ET.

The union’s con­tin­gent, a group of lawyers led by NFLPA gen­eral coun­sel Richard Berthelsen, came look­ing for more specifics on the scope of evi­dence that play­ers helped run the incen­tive pro­gram. The NFL group com­prised of senior vice pres­i­dent for law and labor pol­icy Adolpho Birch, head of secu­rity Jeff Miller and direc­tor of inves­ti­ga­tions Joe Hum­mel. NFL gen­eral coun­sel Jeff Pash also was there for part of the meeting.

Hum­mel and Miller ran the inves­ti­ga­tion for the league over the last three years.

Nei­ther NFL Com­mis­sioner Roger Good­ell nor NFLPA exec­u­tive direc­tor DeMau­rice Smith was in attendance.

NFLPA spokesman George Atal­lah told NFL.com’s Steve Wyche on Mon­day that the union hoped to learn more about the evi­dence that the league gath­ered in its inves­ti­ga­tion of the “bounty” pro­gram that the Saints ran from 2009 to 2011.

Good­ell had said he would wait for rec­om­men­da­tions from the NFLPA before announc­ing dis­ci­pli­nary mea­sures for the 22 to 27 play­ers involved in the scan­dal. How­ever, the union might not offer such recommendations.

“Our duty is to view and under­stand the evi­dence and to ensure it is sub­stan­ti­ated and con­crete,” Smith said in a state­ment released Mon­day, before the meet­ing. “We also have an oblig­a­tion to ensure that our play­ers have fair due process. It is not our duty to give rec­om­men­da­tions for dis­ci­pline in a vac­uum with­out infor­ma­tion or with­out con­sul­ta­tion with our play­ers. It seems as if this entire mat­ter has played out pri­mar­ily in pub­lic, with regard for the fair­ness of the process an afterthought.”

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