Jeremy Shockey Wants NFL Action On Warren Sapp After ‘Snitch’ Accusations
By Josh Sanchez
Tight end Jeremy Shockey may not come off as the most likable guy, but what happened to him earlier in the week was wrong. NFL analyst and former player Warren Sapp outed Shockey as the man who blew the whistle on the New Orleans Saints and made the league office aware of the team’s bounty system.
Shockey adamantly claims that he was not the whistle blower and he wants the league to come down on Sapp, respectively so. (NOTE: If the league is all about player safety now, why do they allow a league employee to use the Twitter handle “QBKILLA.” Moving on.)
The whistleblowing accusations could be hurting Shockey’s chances of landing with another team and he would like the league to take some action.
“Is the league going to come down on their own people when someone does something so wrong and outrageous?” Shockey toldYahoo! Sports. “There should be a standard for punishment, like getting suspended or fined or losing your job. If I say something about officials, the league fines me.
“I’m 31 years old and this is not good. People have asked if this is going to hurt me in finding another team. I don’t know, but it’s not helping me.”
Shockey is totally right here. Maybe he was the one who told the league about the Saints, maybe he wasn’t. Regardless, no league employee should be coming out and letting the whistleblower be public knowledge. That would discourage players from coming out in the future.
If Goodell wants to continue setting an example, why not make sure Sapp is taken off of TV for a few months? This isn’t the first time that Sapp’s flapped him gums when he shouldn’t and made an irresponsible remark. Hit him in the wallet.
Whether or not the league does something about this, we will have to wait and see. But if Sapp gets off without any punishment, it just goes to show further example of the double-standard from the league’s commissioner.
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