His appearance on ‘The Dan Patrick Show’ might not have reached deeply into the complex heart of the Gregg Williams/New Orleans Saints bounty controversy, but one thing was made perfectly clear: if you go to the police with this, Charles Barkley is willing to murder you with a nail gun he bought at the Hardware Barn and drag your dead ass into a vacant building.

“You have to be a punk to snitch that out,” Barkley said. “That’s like giving a reporter an anonymous quote. That makes you a punk, if you do anonymous, but also, you don’t bring that out x amount of years later. I mean you don’t compete in it if you don’t want to be in it. But I’ve seen at least three or four well-known NFL players say all teams have bounties. So I’m glad they came to Gregg Williams’ defense. Because I’m pretty sure all teams have that.”

(via Pro Football Talk)

A few things shouldn’t be surprising here:

1. “Every team encourages and rewards you for injuring opposing players” is the NFL equivalent to baseball’s “everybody’s on steroids” … it’s unfortunate, shocking at first and completely true. These are sports, but they’re also businesses, and people do objectively sh*tty things to make sure their business thrives. Way of the world.

2. Every person who has ever done a job well and stopped doing it thinks they were one of the f**king Boondock Saints when they were in their prime. Has Charles Barkley personally injured someone to keep them from doing something he didn’t like in a grown-up version of a kids game? Of course he has.

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Ray Lewis doesn't tolerate snitches.

The NFL has metaphorically bitch slapped the Baltimore Ravens, forcing the franchise to cancel their final week of offseason training camp. The move was made after the NFL got silent but deadly wind of a complaint filed by the NFLPA.

Reacting to a complaint filed by the player’s association against the Ravens, the league on Monday canceled the last week of Baltimore’s organized team activities, scheduled for June 14-18.

According to the NFL, the Ravens “violated the rules concerning the intensity and tempo of drills conducted on the club’s organized team activity days.” The league also cited the Ravens for “the length of time spent by players at the team facility” on those days. –ESPN

In the video after the jump, Adam Schefter puts forth a theory that it was a Ravens player that reported the team to the NFLPA, but quickly adds that “it wasn’t Ray Lewis.” That’s a safe assumption, Adam, considering Baltimore’s history with snitching. Also, I don’t think Ray-Ray would complain about the “intensity and tempo of drills,” when he was probably the reason they were so intense in the first place.

This will limit the time Baltimore’s offense has to build chemistry before the start of the season. The team has brought in Anquan Boldin and sober driver Donte Stallworth to give unibrow enthusiast Joe Flacco more targets on offense. Already, the two have almost perfected the trust falls it took Trent Dilfer a season to learn. When asked for comment, Todd Heap started to say something, but collapsed in pain before he could finish.

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