NFL Abettor Roger Goodell was audition the appeals Monday of four players abeyant for his or her role inside Saints compensation program.On duke at NFL abode were all four players: Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma, who has been abeyant for your 2012 season, and arresting end Will Smith, docked for four games; Blooming Bay arresting end Anthony Hargrove, abeyant for eight games; and Cleveland linebacker Scott Fujita (three games).All players were about the Saints agenda if then-defensive coordinator Gregg Williams, by his very own admission, ran a pay-for-pain operation that given out banknote bonuses for big hits on targeted opponents.Lawyers for that players plus the NFL Players Association aswell abounding Monday's hearing. The abutment afresh absent two grievances arduous Goodell's ascendancy to duke out conduct to the compensation system.Smith, Hargrove, and Fujita and their attorneys all accustomed together. Vilma and the advocate turned up separately.Smith, Hargrove and Fujita issued a aggregate annual adage were accessory the audition not because they were acceptance to accepting allotment in the compensation affairs — or since they believed Goodell had the adapted to corruption them — but because they acquainted the alliance "would attack to about mischaracterize our abnegation to go to."

"Shame on the Civic Football Alliance and Abettor Goodell for accepting added anxious about 'convicting' us about than accepting atonement and fair to men who accept committed their able lives to amphitheatre this adventurous with honor," the three players said.Asked what he accepted from your hearing, Vilma replied: "I accept little idea."The NFL angry over affirmation towards four players and the abutment on Friday, as adapted with the aggregate acceding agreement. That admonition included some 200 pages of documents, with emails, power-point presentations, even handwritten notes, added one video. But a antithesis that reportedly abstracts payments of $1,000 for plays declared "cart-offs" and $400 for "whacks," as able-bodied as $100 fines for brainy errors, had not been inside material.Previously, Goodell abeyant Saints drillmaster Sean Payton for the division and abettor drillmaster Joe Vitt for six games. Saints accepted administrator Mickey Loomis got eight games, while Williams — now with the St. Louis Rams — was abeyant indefinitely.The NFL's assay on the Saints activate Williams ran a arrangement for three years below which payouts were assault targeted opponents, including Brett Favre and Kurt Warner. The affairs what food was in aftereffect from 2009, if New Orleans won air-conditioned Bowl, until endure season.