FanPost

More Vikings Bounties

This time it was on Brad Johnson in '06 while Old Gregg was with the Redskins. $15,000 from the defensive coordinator to knock Johnson out of the game.


Citing multiple anonymous players, David Elfin writes at the Washington, D.C., CBS affiliate that when the Redskins opened the 2006 season against the Vikings, Williams (who was then the team’s defensive coordinator) made a specific point of telling his players to go after Brad Johnson, the Vikings quarterback who had previously played for the Redskins.

"Gregg came in and dropped $15,000 on the [table] and said, ‘Brad Johnson doesn’t finish this game,’" one player said.

Greg Blache, who was a defensive line coach under Williams at the time and later succeeded Williams as the team’s defensive coordinator, has said that he disliked and discontinued the bounty program. But Elfin quotes that same unnamed player as saying that in reality, Blache was offering players money to compensate them for any fines they got for illegal hits.

"Greg Blache said, ‘If you get fined, it will be taken care of,’" the player said.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/23/report-gregg-williams-put-15000-bounty-on-brad-johnson-in-2006/

This FanPost was created by a registered user of The Daily Norseman, and does not necessarily reflect the views of the staff of the site. However, since this is a community, that view is no less important.