Sean Payton opens up about why he left the Saints (merged)

Derrick 63 said

I can't see that happening. If they were to do that it would just throw fuel on CSP's fire and open the NFL up to public and media scrutiny. For the same reason they don't want gambling to touch players for any reason is the same reason they wouldn't do this. Once you lose the integrity of your game it won't come back anytime soon. That is also the reason I laugh when someone suggests the NFL is rigged.

A more logical explanation would be that CSP was not the best at coaching up his players to avoid penalties and he is just paving a new road to future excuses. JMHO.

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It’s not fully fixed in a way where the result is 100% fool proof. But with sports betting becoming more and more popular, you got to think some of these people have families deep into it. But I believe also theirs too many coincidences that occur that can wake one up to the possibilities of fixed games, or least attempts to fix them. One example happened today when Titans close to 2 mins elected to kick the FG instead of going for it, made it a 1 pt game as opposed to Vegas odds of Saints -3. Worst one was Clemson beating Duke, when majority of bettors have that 1 bet, that’s when things go south real quick, especially being the last game of the week. But it’s not always about that side on why some games can be fixed, bigger part of it is how much influence some owners have on the game and how much of it they can control, like we saw with Stan Kroenke for that 3-4 year spurt once he went back to Los Angeles, theme with that franchise every time they move cities.