The league claims suspended New Orleans Saints defensive tackle Anthony Hargrove chanted "give me my money" after learning that quarterback Brett Favre had been knocked out of the NFC Championship Game in January 2010. Hargrove passionately denies it was his voice and quarterback Drew Brees isn't certain who said it. "You know, I'm not sure, and to be honest with you, I know that you can't really see his lips," Brees told "The Dan Patrick Show" on Tuesday. "And then there's this voice. Is it Hargrove? Is it (defensive tackle) Remi Ayodele? I mean, there's all these names that have been thrown out there. It's basically anyone who's standing around in that picture." Brees made the rounds Tuesday to promote his involvement with concussion awareness, an important topic that almost nobody wanted to discuss. At least not before his contract situation; and not before he weighed in on the team's "bounty" debacle. Brees maintained the Saints' party line, expressing frustration with the league over what he characterizes as a lack of concrete evidence. "I really, to this point, have not seen any hard evidence, any truth, that shows that these guys were contributing money or accepting money or what have you for a pay-to-injure scheme," Brees said. "I think pay for performance has been lumped together with pay to injure in this whole thing and just the facts and evidence and everything has been either twisted or fabricated or -- it just seems like this entire NFL investigation has been geared toward a predetermined conclusion that they wanted to reach, for whatever reason, as opposed to just going out and trying to identify the facts. And I think the facts that have been presented, thus far, don't show any proof that there was a pay-to-injure scheme going on." Source: NFL.com
