Brian Baldinger screwed up. To the NFL, the Saints’ “bountygate” is a black mark they’d love to never hear about ever again. So when Baldy, working for the NFL NETWORK of all places, suggested the Eagles put a bounty on Ezekiel Elliott, it wasn’t going to end well for him. Here’s what Baldy said:

“This is the guy that we’ve got to hurt. This is the guy that we’ve got to take out of the game. There’s got to be 10 guys that want to hurt him every single play. In fact, we may even put a little bounty on Ezekiel Elliott…You want to cut off the head to kill the body, that’s the guy you’ve got to get to.”

Yikes. For those words, Baldy has been suspended for six months without pay, which seems excessive.

If you’ll recall – way back in a time where the NFL wasn’t handing down miscellaneous suspensions almost weekly – the bounty scandal was a huge deal. Roger Goodell initially suspended defensive coordinator Gregg Williams indefinitely, Sean Payton for a whole year, GM Mickey Loomis for eight games, assistant coach Joe Vitt for six games, Jonathan Vilma for an entire year, and three other players for a couple of games. Player suspensions were eventually overturned (and Williams’ was lifted the next year), but the Saints also lost two second-round draft picks in the aftermath. Though it seems like they have no idea what they’re doing when punishing off the field issues, they did not screw around on this one. And they’re still not screwing around.