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(on the rise of undrafted rookie safety Pierre Warren) “We talked about this during the preseason. Pierre Warren was the standout of the entire defense, to me, in the preseason. Every game I saw him not only make plays, but he was doing the intangibles that you want to see out of your free safety, that you want to see out of a leader of your defense. He was around every ball, helping his defenders up, congratulating every man who had made a play. You knew that he had a passion, not only for the game, but for the players.

Seeing that was really, really impressive. On top of the plays he made, it was the small psychological things I saw in Pierre Warren that I really, really liked. And to see him have a two-interception game on 'Monday Night Football?!' Coming off the practice squad?! Man, I’m telling you, he should be looking to sell his rights for a movie.”

(on matching up with Atlanta’s deep receiving corps): “I think the best approach would be to put your best cornerback on Julio Jones and then have a safety just to lean on top of him. Not to necessarily double him or commit two to him, but we understand that Julio is a deep threat. And I believe Keenan Lewis plays the deep ball almost better than anybody else in the league. You very rarely see Keenan get beat by the deep ball.

I like Patrick’s ability to play in the slot. He’s extremely athletic, we all know that. But I think that over the last six games, the way that he’s contested every throw has been incredible. In six games I’ve only seen one ball being openly caught by a receiver that Patrick Robinson has guarded. So I’d feel very comfortable about putting him or Corey White or Kenny Vaccaro on the slot receivers. And then having Terrence Frederick or the other corners play Roddy White with a safety being able to respond. Because Roddy, he doesn’t run many deep balls anymore, not nearly as much as he used to.

And it’s really time to test the young man Fredrick. He had a good game last week, and it’s time to see if he’s the real deal.”

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