Saints VP/GM Mickey Loomis & Head Coach Sean Payton Release Statement On ‘Bountygate’
By Josh Sanchez
New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton and Executive Vice President/General Manager Mickey Loomis have released a joint statement regarding the investigation into former defensive coordinator Gregg Williams. “Bountygate” has begun to be overblown by the media and is distracting the Saints from the important business this offseason, so it makes sense for the higher ups to release a statement. Here is what the statement read:
"We acknowledge that the violations disclosed by the NFL during their investigation of our club happened under our watch. We take full responsibility.This has brought undue hardship on Mr. Benson, who had nothing to do with this activity. He has been nothing but supportive and for that we both apologize to him.These are serious violations and we understand the negative impact it has had on our game. Both of us have made it clear within our organization that this will never happen again, and make that same promise to the NFL and most importantly to all of our fans.– Mickey Loomis & Sean Payton"
Hopefully for the Saints organization, Loomis, Payton and the New Orleans fans, we can start to move on from this story.
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