Drew Brees Compares Bounty Evidence To Missing Weapons Of Mass Destruction

New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees took to twitter to express his frustration with the bounty scandal. Monday the NFL was letting a select 12 reporters see the evidence the NFL has against those involved in bounty gate.

His comparison to an incident in which a governing body made decisive and destructive decisions on less then compelling evidence that it wouldn’t share with the public is valid to a certain extent. But that certainly doesn’t mean that he didn’t offend some of America’s military along the way. Brees finally tweeted an apology roughly 19 hours later and to his credit hasn’t taken the tweet down like many public figures who tweet things they shouldn’t do.

“To be fair to the players, there was far, far more evidence of the pay-for-performance claims than the bounty claims,” SI.com’s Peter King wrote. “In fact, the [Saints safety Roman] Harper claim was the only one the league showed that resulted in a payout to a player for knocking a player out of a game. However, the NFL has maintained all along that all it needs is evidence that a bounty program was in place and that money was offered to try to take opponents out of the game — not that players were actually taken out of the game.”

“I have yet to see anything that implicates me in some pay-to-injure scheme, not in the last three months, not in the last three days, not today,” former Saints Scott Fujita said. “And perhaps that’s because there is nothing that can implicate me in some pay-to-injure scheme.

“Throughout this process,” he continued, “it has become increasingly clear to me that just because someone disagrees with the NFL’s interpretation of an incredibly flawed investigation it’s assumed that he’s lying, and to me that’s a shame. I’ve played 10 years in this league and throughout my career I’ve done nothing but conduct myself in a positive manner. This has impacted my reputation, this has impacted my ability to provide for my family now and in the future and I have a hard time with that. The NFL has been careless and irresponsible and they have made mistakes. At some point they have to answer questions about that.”

But still the public hasn’t seen a “smoking gun” that justifies the NFL’s incredible penalties on players and coaches.

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