The New Orleans Saints were under investigation for running an alleged bounty program after they won the Super Bowl in 2009. The NFL was told by anonymous players that defensive coordinator Gregg Williams was urging players to injure opponents for money and the Saints knew, because they were being investigated. So maybe it was the relief of the NFL concluding its investigation with no penalty or maybe it was just extreme arrogance, but Williams kept running his bounty program, and he apparently did it while a camera was pointed at him the entire time.

According to Yahoo!, documentary filmmaker Sean Pamphilon (Run Ricky Run) was with the Saints at the team’s hotel the night before they played the San Francisco 49ers in their divisional playoff game. The Saints went on to lose that game 36-32, possibly because Williams wasn’t clear enough with his innuendos and hand signals.

Hold on, I think I have an artist’s rendering of Williams’ reaction to this…

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Welcome to Week 2 of my new weekly Random NFL Thoughts installment. Feel free to join in the conversation in the comments, even if to tell me how completely wrong I am.

If you have the pleasure of following Indianapolis Colts GM Jim Irsay on Twitter, then you know two things – 1) He’s a huge music fan, and 2) He’s possibly a lunatic. Irsay has a tendency of Tweeting random song lyrics in a way that the average person – and especially the average Twitter user – might not catch on to very well, if they even get him at all. In the case of the latter, he comes across as a complete psychopath.

But in between those lyrical Tweets, he openly talks about Colts football with fans, and since the lockout ended, the only topic regarding Indy football has been Peyton Manning’s neck. By all accounts, the guy who just signed a contract that guarantees him close to $100 million over the rest of his career will not be ready for Week 1. Manning hasn’t seen a snap in the preseason, but that should’t really be a problem for one of the game’s elite QBs if he’s actually going to start the season opener. He can just kick off the rust and run with it. Either way, Irsay wants to f*ck with us.

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San Francisco 49ers running back Frank Gore has a new agent! (horseshit registration required)

Gore signed with Miami-based [Drew] Rosenhaus last week after his first agent, David Dunn, told Gore he no longer could represent him. Dunn is facing a two-year suspension from the National Football League Players Association.

Yes, that Drew Rosenhaus. But why is Dunn facing a two-year suspension? Well, I looked it up, and there was lots of legalese that I didn't really understand, but it seemed Dunn was pretty good at extremely scheisty collusion. He also declared bankruptcy in 2003, in part to delay legal action against himself. So, naturally, Gore has picked up the single next-slimiest agent, who will almost certainly enter into an ugly negotaition process, right? AU CONTRAIRE:

"That's such a myth," said Rosenhaus, noting he quietly has brokered deals for such high-profile players as Jeremy Shockey, Chad Johnson and Anquan Boldin. "If you talk to general managers, they'll tell you we know how to get deals done. We are not obstinate."

Ugh. He's just so… slimy. I need to go shower to get all this agent off of me.