kind of hard and hypocritical and probably also pointless to prove guilt on those charges in a sport that is already centered on violent contacts and going after the opposing players as hard as possible. Difficult to take the high stance in this when you are pushing for even more games in the season, having teams play on short weeks for better TV ratings, use sounds of violent hits on the field as a tool to popularize the game, etc, etc w/o looking desperately hypocritical.
As much as I approve of some of the rule changes to make the game safer, seems to me the Saints' season went down the crapper on little more than a knee-jerk reaction.