New Orleans Saints/Washington Redskins: Bounty Hunters

[Giantone]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

Bills might be next. At most the Redskins may face a monetary fine, if that. Saints main issue is they knew, were warned, and didn't stop it. Not the case with the Redskins

SS,how are you so sure ?I ask becuase having been in many a locker room coachs and owners have snitchs,maybe it's an equipment guy or a ball boy or an assistant trying to move up the ladder but min the head coach had to have known.

[GoSkins!]

I think that the idea of the bounty program is deplorable and action must be taken to stop this from ever happening again. This starts with punishing the person/organizations involved. I still have this feeling we are on a slippery slope now.

It appears the bounty program got into high gear during the Saints run in the playoffs when people are already playing as hard as they can. That is a point when people are so hyped up they shouldn't have any incentive to hit another player harder than they already do. There is no way that can go unpunished. With that said, I'm trying to get a handle on how bad it really made things in the general course of the regular season (I'm not advocating that it should be allowed then either, just trying to establish the severity of the "crime"). It is coming out that this is a widespread action that happens throughout the NFL and I think there is a tendency when these things happen to adopt a mob mentality and start over vilifying the initially identified perpetrator. I can see how this could be common in defensive locker rooms through the NFL. I can also see how this could have started as something smaller for Williams and then blew up and got out of control with the Saints.

As an example, I always loved the way Sean Taylor went out and hit people. I never really thought of his play as dirty. Heck, I thought of it as the picture of what physical defense should look like... and he, according to other players, was taking home the bounty proceeds most of the time. I know most here on the board have the same opinion of his play (or at least many did back then).

I guess what I'm wondering is if people here on this board thought of the Redskins defense as "dirty" during Williams tenure ? If not, which teams did you/do you think of being dirty and what might you think is their incentive to play that way?

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by Giantone

SS,how are you so sure ?I ask becuase having been in many a locker room coachs and owners have snitchs,maybe it's an equipment guy or a ball boy or an assistant trying to move up the ladder but min the head coach had to have known.

I don't really understand your question

[Giantone]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

I don't really understand your question

Ok, you said that you think it was only Williams in DC and no one else knew about it and while I am an admitted fan of Joe Gibbs I'm just asking why you think that noone else in the Skins organization knew this was going on,maybe not Gibbs then VC did,no way can you keep this quiet on a team with 53+ people.

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by Giantone

Ok, you said that you think it was only Williams in DC and no one else knew about it and while I am an admitted fan of Joe Gibbs I'm just asking why you think that noone else in the Skins organization knew this was going on,maybe not Gibbs then VC did,no way can you keep this quiet on a team with 53+ people.

I don't think that's what I said. What I said was Williams kept a lot of things from Gibbs (and they didn't have the best relationship) so it wouldn't surprise me if he didn't know. And it's not hard to keep things quiet. Teams form cliques all the time, offense vs. defense, linemen vs skill players, receivers vs running backs and so on.

There's an email paper trail all the way up to Sean Peyton in New Orleans, no evidence the same exists for the Redskins