Gregg Williams' defenses always had a rep for being dirty (for as long as he's been in the league as a coach), specifically taking cheap shots so this explains everything. Jeff Fisher's defenses too & since they've worked together a lot, I wonder if the NFL will be watching the rams with a magnifying glass? The Ram D is going to get so many flags it's not even going to be funny...
Updated: June 18th, 2012 4:52pm
Turns out the reports that the New Orleans Saints put a $10,000 bounty on Brett Favre to knock the Minnesota Vikings quarterback out of the 2009 NFC title game might not have been correct.
The NFL showed reporters evidence Monday regarding the Saints' bounty case, including an allegation of a $35,000 bounty to knock Favre out of the game on Jan. 24, 2010. The Saints won, 31-28, in overtime en route to a victory in the Super Bowl.
Peter King of Sports Illustrated tweeted the information about Favre and the fact that the NFL claims Saints interim coach Joe Vitt pledged $5,000 of that money.
Saints coach Sean Payton has been suspended for the 2012 season as a result of the NFL's findings in the bounty case. Vitt is suspended for the first six games of the year.
All of this came as NFL commissioner Roger Goodell heard appeals Monday in New York for the four players suspended because of their involvement in the Saints' bounty pool.
Goodell met with Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma, who has been suspended for the season, as well as defensive end Will Smith (four games); Green Bay defensive end Anthony Hargrove (eight) and Cleveland linebacker Scott Fujita (three).
The NFL turned over some evidence to the four players and the union on Friday, as required by the collective bargaining agreement. That information included some 200 pages of documents, with e-mails, power-point presentations, even handwritten notes, plus one video recording.
But a ledger that reportedly documents payments of $1,000 for plays called "cart-offs" and $400 for "whacks," as well as $100 fines for mental errors, was not in the material.
In King's tweet, he said the 12 reporters who were given the information about the bounty on Favre were told they were getting the same presentation the players got earlier in the afternoon
The hit on Favre that most remember from the 2009 conference title game was a high-low take out that defensive end Bobby McCray and nose tackle Remi Ayodele put on Favre in the third quarter that left the veteran on the turf with an injured left ankle.
Favre's pass on the play was picked off by Vilma. New Orleans took over at its own 31 with the score 21-21 but did not score on the ensuing series.
No flag was thrown but Mike Pereira, then the NFL's vice president of officiating, admitted later that referee Pete Morelli's crew should have called a 15-yard penalty. Favre was injured but was able to continue playing. A hobbled Favre threw an interception near the end of the fourth quarter with the scored tied and the ball at the Saints 38-yard line.
Ayodele spent last season with the Vikings but was let go by the team after the Saints' bounty system was revealed by the league.
"Welp"
