HELLUVA Interview - Gregg Williams

Sir Psycho Sexy · 10-15-2009, 09:07 PM

You came in here and had a lot of success against the Saints in 2006. Did you feel like you could punch them around and heard accusations of them being a finesse team?
I chose to be a Saint. I had many opportunities to go elsewhere. I wanted to be a New Orleans Saint. This kind of football team has been here all the time. They just had to say let the dogs out and it's been fun to see that approach being taken in our run game. Our offensive line's had to defend themselves out in practice. All of a sudden our offensive line's pretty nasty. They're finishing and it is what it is. It's a habit that you teach every single day. It's an attitude you teach every single day. I get way too much credit for X's and O's. It's a culture, it's a philosophy, it's a foundation. It's an effort level, those types of things. When you have the right type of people you can trust. We've got a quarterback you can trust. We want the ball in his hands and we've got some guys on defense that I want them to call the game. I don't call as much of the game as they think I do on Sunday. Jonathan (Vilma) and Darren (Sharper) and some of those guys in the back end and some of the guys up front, have some latitude up front in what we do. The fans are real important to that too. In order to get a home field advantage you have to have a raucous crowd. In order to win your division you have to win your home games. That's comes a part of playing defense, a part of playing defense is to have an intense defense that the fans love coming to see watch play because they're going to jump on hand grenades, knock as many people down along the way is they can, play hard-nosed, full-effort football. The fans appreciate that and they've become a part of our third down attack. They've become a part of our first down attack, a part of our goal line, red zone, attack, because that adds another 12th, 13th, 14th defender out there when you're making them have a tough time communicating.

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10-15-2009, 09:07 PM	#1
Sir Psycho Sexy Moderator Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Atlanta, GA - Behind enemy lines. Someone throw me a grenade!! Posts: 941	HELLUVA Interview - Gregg Williams You came in here and had a lot of success against the Saints in 2006. Did you feel like you could punch them around and heard accusations of them being a finesse team? I chose to be a Saint. I had many opportunities to go elsewhere. I wanted to be a New Orleans Saint. This kind of football team has been here all the time. They just had to say let the dogs out and it's been fun to see that approach being taken in our run game. Our offensive line's had to defend themselves out in practice. All of a sudden our offensive line's pretty nasty. They're finishing and it is what it is. It's a habit that you teach every single day. It's an attitude you teach every single day. I get way too much credit for X's and O's. It's a culture, it's a philosophy, it's a foundation. It's an effort level, those types of things. When you have the right type of people you can trust. We've got a quarterback you can trust. We want the ball in his hands and we've got some guys on defense that I want them to call the game. I don't call as much of the game as they think I do on Sunday. Jonathan (Vilma) and Darren (Sharper) and some of those guys in the back end and some of the guys up front, have some latitude up front in what we do. The fans are real important to that too. In order to get a home field advantage you have to have a raucous crowd. In order to win your division you have to win your home games. That's comes a part of playing defense, a part of playing defense is to have an intense defense that the fans love coming to see watch play because they're going to jump on hand grenades, knock as many people down along the way is they can, play hard-nosed, full-effort football. The fans appreciate that and they've become a part of our third down attack. They've become a part of our first down attack, a part of our goal line, red zone, attack, because that adds another 12th, 13th, 14th defender out there when you're making them have a tough time communicating. FULL INTERVIEW
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