Your comments: Giants speak out against Saints' bounty program Staff By Staff The Star-Ledger
on March 06, 2012 at 10:36 AM, updated March 06, 2012 at 10:38 AM
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Eli Manning and the Giants spoke out against Gregg Williams and the Saints' bounty program in which players were paid to deliver big hits on opposing offenses.

Manning said there is no place in football for such a thing, and Hakeem Nicks said it's something the Giants don't do. Antrel Rolle and Jason Pierre-Paul also spoke negatively of the Saints' bounty program, and many users are echoing those statements. Some feel Williams, now the defensive coordinator of the Rams, should be fired.

Here's a sampling of user comments.


It's one thing to reward players for sacks or interceptions or even "the biggest hit of the game" (and yeah I know they are all against the rules these days)...but it's something else to tell your players to go out and deliberately injure someone and get a reward. Williams crossed the line. Apparently he's in real hot water because the league a couple of years ago got wind of the bounty program and told New Orleans to cut it out...and they didn't.
Thing is, I don't think it's fair for the Rams to take the brunt of Williams' obvious upcoming suspension, when they had nothing to do with his bounty program. Saints have to pay the piper somehow. Will the league suspend (Saints coach Sean) Payton??


If I owned the Rams I'd can him. He will bring nothing but bad publicity to the team. Every big hit will open up calls to see if there's a bounty. A guy who would send players out to injure other players is a bad guy and needs to be gone. The Rams will be better off without him. What do you think the Giants would do? No way they keep him.


When I think of when I saw LT break Joe Theismann's leg accidentally on MNF and then think of this whole bounty thing and why someone would wanna chance doing that to someone intentionally, it just blows my mind. I love football, and yes, it's a violent sport as is, so there's no need for anyone to want to injure someone on purpose and risk injuring them badly, let alone, possibly permanently. Any coach that would sanction something like that needs to not be a coach anymore.


This makes one wonder what was really going on when Williams left NO. Who leaves a winning team to take the same job with a perennial loser? I think he was pushed out by management so they could start planning for a replacement, instead of waiting for the inevitable suspension. I mean we now know they knew about the league investigation in advance, and they most likely knew what was coming.
I agree, the Rams are going to suffer because of this, which is not fair to them, that's why the league needs to make the Saints pay a heavy, heavy price. They've screwed up two teams in the NFL in one fell swoop. The Rams should start looking for a new defensive coordinator now, while they still have time.
