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"I'm not going to apologize for how hard our guys play, and I'm not going to apologize if they're trying to lay the wood on everybody," Williams once said. "When the other team is worried about protecting themselves over protecting the ball, we all like that a lot better."
Williams became Titans defensive coordinator in 1997 and helped Tennessee win the AFC championship in '99. He left to become Bills coach and went 17-31 in three seasons before being fired.
He went back to coordinating in 2004 in Washington, left in 2008 to join Jacksonville for one season, then moved to New Orleans just as the Saints were becoming the class of the NFC South.
Several players told The Washington Post on Friday that Williams had a similar bounty program with the Redskins.
Former defensive end Philip Daniels, now the team's director of player development, said the most he received was $1,500 for a four-sack game against the Dallas Cowboys in 2005; player performance bonuses are outlawed by the NFL.
"I think it is wrong the way they're trying to paint (Williams)," Daniels added. "He never told us to go out there and break a guy's neck or break a guy's leg. It was all in the context of good, hard football."
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