Washington Redskins Video: Watch Matt Bowen Say He Has No Regrets About Bounties

It is one thing for a scandal in which an NFL team is paying players for performance and more for hurting the opposing players, but it is another to confirm it wholeheartedly without any spec of remorse or regret.

Credit former Washington Redskins defensive back Matt Bowen for telling the truth and being very blunt with it in an ESPN interview with anchor Sage Steele.

Bowen does not hold back with ESPN, stating that bounties are a part of the NFL game.

He goes into further detail saying that former Redskins defensive coordinator and current St. Louis Rams defensive coordinator Gregg Williams would set up a system in which players would gain or lose money throughout the week of practice leading up to the game, then again in the game itself.

"We collected money ourselves as players," Bowen said. "We almost had like a penalty system. You miss a play in practice, you blow an assignment, you add to add to that pot, and what we did as players was hand that out during the games."

It would seem like Bowen confirmed that Williams was the head of the scandal that has become known as "Bounty-Gate" over the past 24 hours.

The scandal, which placed bounties on big hits on the opposition and even more for targeted players, would pay a larger sum of money for knocking a player out of the game.  

However, in Bowen's interview, as well as his column he wrote for the Chicago Tribune, the scandal's process seems ordinary and a part of the game to him.

Williams has already come forward and apologized for being a part of the bounty program with his players, but this is the first account of a player stepping forward with first-hand knowledge of the scandal and confirming it.