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Following up on the
ongoing story. ... Though Brees largely sidestepped questions about the Saints' "bounty" scandal earlier this week, the QB maintained his team had been improperly punished by the NFL. Brees said at a news conference in Carlsbad, Calif., for his May charity golf tournament that a distinction needed to be made between "pay for performance" and a reward system for injuring players. "I would say what we've been accused of in regards to pay for injury is not the case," Brees said.
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Brees added that the audio of former Saints DC Gregg Williams encouraging his players to injure specific 49ers players before a playoff game "was hard for everybody to hear. ..." Meanwhile, Brees also explained that when he tweeted last month he was "
looking for an explanation" after NFL commissioner Roger Goodell announced the penalties against the team, he was only questioning the season-long suspension of HC Sean Payton. "I was talking about my head coach. I wasn't referring to anybody else," said Brees, who also told reporters he had yet to receive an explanation for Payton's punishment. We'll go ahead and offer Brees a one word explanation: "Accountability."
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