Modest Kromer could ride role as Saints' fill-in to head-coaching job
 

METAIRIE, La. -- Sean Payton, the regular coach of the New Orleans Saints, has an edge about him that helps make him one of the game's best. Joe Vitt, the team's interim coach, is a Payton soldier who plays the tough-guy role to the max and oozes Payton loyalty.

So who is Aaron Kromer?

He's the interim-interim coach of the Saints, if you really want to get technical. With Payton suspended for the year for his role in Bountygate, and Vitt getting the first six games for his role in it, the Saints have turned to Kromer, the team's offensive line coach, to lead their team.

Strange thing is: He doesn't come across anything like the other two.

Where Payton will shoot daggers at a questioner and Vitt seems ready to square off at any moment, Kromer actually sounds and talks like a football coach from outside the Saints family.

Kromer talks in coach-speak, seemingly out of the mold of all those straight-laced graduates of Coach 101.

For some reason, he doesn't act or seem like ego is a big deal to him at all, which is weird for a coach in these parts

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Re: Modest Kromer could ride role as Saints' fill-in to head-coaching job
 

DON'T TAKE OUR KROMER!!! HE'S OURS DAMNIT!

Re: Modest Kromer could ride role as Saints' fill-in to head-coaching job
 

Without a doubt we make other teams look silly with some of our upfield blocking. I love to watch these guys pass off players to their team mates. It's a thing of beauty. Kromer has done an exceptional job of making a decent O line look good.