Shanle gives insight into Saints Pay for Performance system

I don't think anyone has denied that there was a pay for performance pool -- it's why the coaches couldn't really fight back as it was against the rules. However, there's a big difference between a locker room big play pool that was really more about team camaraderie than money, and a sinister pay to injure system targetting opposing players, which is how the league framed it.

Seriously, four months ago, if you were told that a team was paying players to injure opponents, based simply upon what everyone had seen on the field from a fan's perspective, would anyone have suspected that team was the Saints? The on field play surely didn't match Williams' rhetoric nor the league's allegations.