What has happened in the time that has passed since the bounties were first announced? When they first disclosed that the Saints had continued to use a bounty program after being warned the fans and sports writers were calling for harsh penalties for all involved. The coaches and GMs received harsh punishments and there were few if any people calling those penalties harsh. Now the players who played key roles are punished in a similar fashion and people are acting like this should be treated as if it was a criminal case being tried in court. The owner of the Saints and coaches apologized for wrong doing and took their punishment. They were all interviewed at length. Does anyone really thing that these players were not implicated by multiple people? How does it benefit Goodell to arbitrarily pick out a couple of players and suspend them?