Saints QB Drew Brees Talks About NFL's Bounty Investigation On Late Show

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Drew Brees appeared on Thursday night's episode of "Late Show with David Letterman." During his interview with Letterman, Brees again responded to questions about the NFL's pay-for-performance bounty investigation, Ryan Jones of the New Orleans Times-Picayune reports. "It's certainly not a positive thing," Brees said. "I mean, just the whole process itself and the investigation I feel like has been extremely unfair. Unfortunately, it seems like it's been more of a media campaign then it is actually finding the truth to the matter." Brees said, as he has in the past, that he was not aware that a "pay-to-injure" program existed during former defensive coordinator Gregg Williams' time with the New Orleans Saints from 2009-11. "... That's not something that I believe our team would be engaged in, and I think for all of us, it was a shock when we were accused of that because that's a pretty heinous accusation," Brees said. "So the entire time for a lot of us, it's been, 'Show us the proof, put forth the facts and, if indeed it is proved that there was a pay-to-injure program in place, then, yes, there should be punishment enforced.' Unfortunately, to this pointthere's been no hard evidence to show that that was indeed taking place." "There's two things here: There's a pay-for-performance and then there's pay-to-injure," Brees said. "The NFL, through their media campaign, has combined the two and said that these were going on, but combined them as if they were the same thing. They're not the same thing. "Pay-for-performance would be if I was a kick returner and I said to all the guys blocking for me, 'Hey, if I score a touchdown, if you get me in the end zone, I'll give you all $100' or 'I'll take you all out to eat.' It's just a benefit, a reward. That's a pay-for-performance, and that's just players taking care of players. It has nothing to do with the front office management, owner, anyone. Pay-to-injure is the same thing except it's, 'Hey, I'll give you money if you go and intentionally hurt somebody."

Source: The Redzone