Williams’s tenacious approach to defense will be on display in the D.C. Defenders’ season opener Sunday at Audi Field.
Having coached in the NFL from 1990 to 2020, Williams is now tasked with producing an aggressive defense in the XFL, a league full of players hoping to make an impression.Williams said he turned down NFL coaching opportunities to embark on his first endeavor in a spring football league.Williams said he enjoys teaching players who ordinarily get overlooked and otherwise wouldn’t have the opportunity to advance their careers.
“That shows the character of Coach Gregg,” Ramirez said. “People only hear [of] him and think of [Bountygate] or this aggressive [jerk], but honestly, Coach Gregg is a very [humble] man, and he’s willing to help guys that don’t have those opportunities.”Williams is working with a staff full of coaches he has never partnered with before, so putting in extra work to explain his defense has been paramount. Moving down a level will be an adjustment, but his assistants say he is embracing the change.
In 2012, shortly after he left the New Orleans Saints, where he was defensive coordinator, for the same role with the St. Louis Rams,for implementing a bounty system in which Saints players were incentivized for hits that injured opponents. Williams’s suspension lasted a year, and the Rams fired him before he coached a game for them; Williams landed in 2013 as a defensive assistant for the Tennessee Titans.said Williams had a similar system during his time with the franchise.
Barlow said Williams offers “instant credibility,” adding, “He brings a wealth of knowledge and experience, things that we all will be able to learn from and have an appreciation for.”Williams and Barlow joined the XFL not knowing what city they’d work in. Both originally believed they would be coaching in San Antonio, but reshuffling brought them to the nation’s capital.
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