Former New Orleans Saints defensive coordinator Gregg Williams testified that he tried to shut down the team's bounty system when the NFL began investigating but was overruled by interim head coach Joe Vitt, according to transcripts from appeals hearings obtained by the Associated Press. According to the transcripts, Williams said then-assistant Vitt responded to a suggestion that the pay-for-pain setup be abandoned with an obscenity-filled speech about how NFL commissioner Roger Goodell "wasn't going to ... tell us to ... stop doing what won us the Super Bowl. This has been going on in the ... National Football League forever, and it will go on here forever, when they run (me) out of there, it will still go on." Williams and Vitt were among a number of witnesses whose testimony was heard by former commissioner Paul Tagliabue, who on Tuesday overturned four player suspensions in the case. Tagliabue was appointed by Goodell to handle the final round of appeals. The AP obtained transcripts of Tagliabue's closed-door hearings through a person with a role in the case. Source: The Redzone
So a LB coach overruled a DC???? Yeah, ok. I'm thinking someone will say/do what ever he has to do to coach again.
& seeing his intense loyalty to his former fellow coach will undoubtedly endear him to prospective employers...if there's such a thing. :icon_smile:
Yawn. Williams is done in the NFL, this year anyway. Blaming it on someone still being staffed by the Saints is low but it's the Saints so who cares.
