NFLPA asks NFL to restart Saints bounty investigation

NFLPA Executive Director DeMaurice Smith is asking the NFL to restart from scratch its investigation into the alleged New Orleans Saints bounty scandal, NFLPA spokesman George Atallah confirms. Though Atallah says the NFLPA would not comment on the matter, Pro Football Talk has obtained the letter the NFLPA sent to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and has posted it online here. The letter calls the investigation “unprofessional, unsubstantiated and incomplete.” In it, Smith also points to witnesses who have “clearly and publicly stated that the NFL grossly mischaracterized the information they provided to NFL investigators and knowingly misrepresented the facts surrounding this investigation.” The letter concludes with the request for a new investigation. “I ask that you order that the investigation of this matter be redone thoroughly and transparently, and if the full and complete information shows that none of the accused players participated in a ‘pay to injure’ scheme, the NFL publicly issue such written findings,” Smith writes.