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NFL asks filmmaker for Gregg Williams recordings

File photo of New Orleans Saints' Williams watching his team prepare for NFL football game against Tampa Bay Buccaneers in New Orleans

New Orleans Saints Defensive Coordinator Gregg Williams watches his team prepare for their NFL football game against Tampa Bay Buccaneers in New Orleans, Louisiana in this January 2, 2011 file photo. The Buffalo Bills and the Tennessee Titans are the latest National Football League (NFL) teams to be linked to bounty schemes which rewarded big hits on players. The NFL announced March 2, 2012 that their own investigation had uncovered that defensive coordinator Gregg Williams, currently with the New Orleans Saints and formerly with the Washington Redskins, ran such a rewards scheme, including informal bonuses for knocking players out of a game, during three years at the Saints from 2009. Former Washington Redskins strong safety Matt Bowen said on March 3 that a similar bounty, made up of funds generated by the players themselves, was in operation during Williams’s time with the team. REUTERS/Sean Gardner/Files (UNITED STATES - Tags: SPORT FOOTBALL)

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Documentary filmmaker Sean Pamphilon caused a stir ten days ago when he released an audio recording of former Saints defensive coordinator Gregg Williams urging his players to injure the 49ers prior to their NFC playoff game. What Pamphilon hasn’t done is release everything he recorded behind the scenes with the Saints. But that’s what the NFL is asking him to do.

Pamphilon told Michael Silver of Yahoo! Sports that the league office has been in touch and wants to get a complete look at anything that can shed light on the Saints bounty scandal.

“NFL security called four times on Friday. They want the Gregg Williams tapes,” Pamphilon told Silver.

Pamphilon also said he wants “Roger Goodell to answer real questions first.” It’s not clear exactly what Pamphilon means by that, but if he means that he wants to be the one to ask those “real questions” to Goodell, that’s a request that may bolster those who think Pamphilon inserted himself into the bounty story for self-serving reasons.

Pamphilon added that he has copies of tapes “in several locations.” It remains to be seen whether the NFL’s security office will be one of those locations that houses Pamphilon’s tapes in the future.