New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees has largely remained mum on the bounty scandal situation that continues to serve as a distraction to the team’s disappointing 1-4 start to the season. But this morning, Brees is making the media rounds, and he’s not holding his tongue on his views about the new suspensions in the New Orleans Saints bounty scandal. As The Times-Picayune reports, Brees called the bounty situation “a big sham” on ESPN Radio’s Mike and Mike in the Morning, and agreed with the statement by former Saints linebacker Scott Fujita in which Fujita blasts NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell for the handling of the bounty case. In a separate interview with the NFL Network’s NFL AM, Brees says, “This could go on for a while because, certainly, our players are not satisfied with some of the things that Commissioner Goodell has claimed or said. It seems like so much of his suspensions have been based upon speculation and rhetoric and maybe the testimony of some pretty unreliable sources. … Now that we’re in the middle of the season, we just want to play football, we want to focus on winning games. It’s been a tough road, but we’re really just trying to compartmentalize this, block it out so we can focus on the season.”
Today’s poll question: The New Orleans Saints are 1-4 on the season thus far. What do you think their record would be if coach Sean Payton were not suspended for the season due to the bounty scandal?
