I don't think you can make any judgments based on Williams' and Payton's silence. They may have decided to accept the punishment rather than drag it out and have it as a distraction. They appealed as much as they could.
And Moe, I'm not sure how much of a smoking gun there would be. A lot of this sounds very ad hoc. Most of it would simply have been verbal. I'm actually a bit surprised there has been as much computer record recovered as has been reported.
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